GTA V REQUIRES SSD?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Does this game actually LAG, unless you have a very fast Harddisk or SSD?

 

My Framerate drops in Cities while driving fast, and I have no idea why.

It's currently installed on my 2.5", however installing on the WD green 3.5" didn't do anything at all.

 

 

Playing in 1.st person FPS: 45-70

Playing in 3.rd person FPS: 23-45

 

How the heck do consoles handle it with 2.5" then??

[Agazed]

No, a disk does not affect game performance, unless it is horribly slow.

[Minzo]

Does this game actually LAG, unless you have a very fast Harddisk or SSD?

 

My Framerate drops in Cities while driving fast, and I have no idea why.

It's currently installed on my 2.5", however installing on the WD green 3.5" didn't do anything at all.

 

 

Playing in 1.st person FPS: 45-70

Playing in 3.rd person FPS: 23-45

 

How the heck do consoles handle it with 2.5" then??

I'll trade my SSD for your "WD Green 640TB 3.5" drive "

[Ryukrieger]

No, you will not gain any performance by changing drives, just the loading time.

You may want to tune down settings a bit.

[Wauthar]

That's not how it works  :huh:

Graphical performance is determined by your GPU and CPU, if those are not up to date or adequate to the requirements of the game, it will run laggy and slow.

[Accursed Entity]

I played it on both my HDD and my SSD(currently here)... it doesn't affect FPS, however I did noticed that the loading of pedestrians was slow on my HDD compared to the SSD... So I left it on my SSD much faster loadings as well, but nope, FPS doesn't have anything to do with it.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Yeah as accursed entity said, when you drive super fast through a city, The hdd Seems to fall a bit behind loading people , cars and buildings.

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @Edgar R. Zakarian!

 

The SSD can help only with faster loading times which occurs because the data transfer speed of a SSD is higher than that of a HDD (for instance for open world games and such that have to load often and load in objects, etc.), but it doesn't affect your FPS. Your GPU is the key component there, as well as the CPU, and installing the game to an SSD will not make that much of a difference in the general performance (except for the mentioned loading times). 

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!

[Nexxus]

The only thing the SSD is going to effect in GTA 5: your loads into the game form the main menu, the transistion between chars if they are far away, your load times in GTAO loading screens. Thats pretty much it.

[1Scotty1]

Yeah as accursed entity said, when you drive super fast through a city, The hdd Seems to fall a bit behind loading people , cars and buildings.

As stated before, HDDs don't have an impact on that, GPU has... plus, where did you get a 640TB HDD? I seriously want one

[79 Potatoes]

Turn down population variety and density, that's very CPU heavy

[bydus]

I have gta 5 on ssd and I get stutter when driving fast also so its the game problem( i have i7 and 970 and gpu usage when stuttering is around 60%) not your drive. Having it installed on ssd greatly reduces loading times for online and single player. If you play online that I say install on ssd, if single player keep it on hard drive. 

[Humbug]

I have gta 5 on ssd and I get stutter when driving fast also so its the game problem( i have i7 and 970 and gpu usage when stuttering is around 60%) not your drive.

It seems like stuttering while driving is a common complaint in a lot of games.

-watchdogs

-farcry4

-GTA V

[Accursed Entity]

As stated before, HDDs don't have an impact on that, GPU has... plus, where did you get a 640TB HDD? I seriously want one

 

He wasn't talking about FPS nor slow texture loading(usually VRAM)... However from my own testing(and a lot of people), at least the pedestrians load much faster on my SSD than my HDD. Please don't take this too seriously, we aren't implying that is unplayable on HDD or that we recommend using SSD, is just what it is for us, nothing else nothing bad.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

As stated before, HDDs don't have an impact on that, GPU has... plus, where did you get a 640TB HDD? I seriously want one

I built it myself, from pickles and straws

haha I'll correct that! Thanks. :lol:  :lol:

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Turn down population variety and density, that's very CPU heavy

Is the CPU the one bottlenecking here? :blink:

The threads are on about 70-80% not maxed out though.

[sgtcool]

 

 

It seems like stuttering while driving is a common complaint in a lot of games.
-watchdogs
-farcry4
-GTA V

for me only when im using custom music

[-iSynthesis]

Does this game actually LAG, unless you have a very fast Harddisk or SSD?

 

My Framerate drops in Cities while driving fast, and I have no idea why.

It's currently installed on my 2.5", however installing on the WD green 3.5" didn't do anything at all.

 

 

Playing in 1.st person FPS: 45-70

Playing in 3.rd person FPS: 23-45

 

How the heck do consoles handle it with 2.5" then??

I guess the barracuda is the fastest consumer drive out there, but still, i see excellent performance in gta. I sadly dont have enough space on my SSD for GTA but i guess that would cut the loading time down a lot. Like in battlefield or something