SSD just for games - need help

[andrewace15]

Hello everyone, 

 

So I recently upgraded my HDD from 500Gb to 2TB and so far so good, nothing wrong going on there. However on recent, larger more graphically intensive games, i've been playing (Doom, to be the most recent) the boot up time is incredibly slow. Also some of the in game textures take a minute to load or I have to walk right up to them. Nothing game breaking at all and its just nit-picky but my question is, if I buy an SSD, could I only use that for gaming?

 

My boot up time is almost nonexistent so thats not my main concern (i know a lot of people load their OS on the SSD for fast boot times), I literally just want to move my game files on to there and load from there.

 

My followup questions is, if I am able to use it only for gaming, would i have to do any set up from the Bios? When I upgraded HDD i used this program called Macrium Reflect to clone my OS. I was able to do it, but i actually did it wrong the first time and had to start all over lol. So If I could avoid data transfers or anything like that, that would be awesome. I really want to know if I could just "plug in and play" if you will. 

 

Thanks

 

(also I dont think the texture lag is from my other components

i5-4690k

EVGA GTX 970

and im only running single monitor at 1080p shooting for 60fps) 

Edited June 22, 2016 by andrewace15
clarification on system set up

[RadiatingLight]

sure, you could totally do that - all you would need to do is copy over all the files from the HDD to SSD, and tell your game launcher where the games have moved to. no program needed.

 

[Droidbot]

15 minutes ago, andrewace15 said:

Hello everyone, 

 

So I recently upgraded my HDD from 500Gb to 2TB and so far so good, nothing wrong going on there. However on recent, larger more graphically intensive games, i've been playing (Doom, to be the most recent) the boot up time is incredibly slow. Also some of the in game textures take a minute to load or I have to walk right up to them. Nothing game breaking at all and its just nit-picky but my question is, if I buy an SSD, could I only use that for gaming?

 

My boot up time is almost nonexistent so thats not my main concern (i know a lot of people load their OS on the SSD for fast boot times), I literally just want to move my game files on to there and load from there.

 

My followup questions is, if I am able to use it only for gaming, would i have to do any set up from the Bios? When I upgraded HDD i used this program called Macrium Reflect to clone my OS. I was able to do it, but i actually did it wrong the first time and had to start all over lol. So If I could avoid data transfers or anything like that, that would be awesome. I really want to know if I could just "plug in and play" if you will. 

 

Thanks

 

(also I dont think the texture lag is from my other components

i5-4690k

EVGA GTX 970

and im only running single monitor at 1080p shooting for 60fps) 

 

A small question; Did you mess up the first try with Reflect then have success the second time, or just reinstalled Windows and started clean? 

 

SSDs that aren't set as boot drives are usually plug and play, yes. You might need to adjust the boot order in the BIOS so it doesn't try booting from the SSD and then slowing down the boot time. 

[andrewace15]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

A small question; Did you mess up the first try with Reflect then have success the second time, or just reinstalled Windows and started clean? 

 

SSDs that aren't set as boot drives are usually plug and play, yes. You might need to adjust the boot order in the BIOS so it doesn't try booting from the SSD and then slowing down the boot time. 

I messed up because I partitioned the wrong amount of space lol I made 1.5TB back up space and the rest was the OS. I did have success the second time though, just went through the process again and just partitioned it correctly lol

 

Ok awesome, this is great news because I was terrified of doing anything else with my data after some scares i had when I upgraded my whole system lol

 

Thank you