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If the game is trying to load something while you are playing and the drive can't keep up, the fps could tank or at least stutter, but under normal conditions drive speed won't affect fps in any way.

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3 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If the game is trying to load something while you are playing and the drive can't keep up, the fps could tank or at least stutter, but under normal conditions drive speed won't affect fps in any way.

wouldn't it depend on the drive and the game?

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7 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

wouldn't it depend on the drive and the game?

Yes.  Some games (like GTA V (in my experience at least)) load constantly and at a high rate of speed, which basically requires them to be installed on an SSD for the reasons I stated.  some games though don't really load anything after the initial loading screen, or load so little that the drive can always keep up, and in those situations, your fps is not going to depend on the drive in the slightest.

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From what I know SSD's are faster at loading but not so much running. The reasons is the the hdd has to spin up to speed before it can do with the ssd just does. But once said program is open it does not work any faster. For Example if you tried to open photoshop on an ssd it would open and be ready to use much faster the an hdd but one running they would perform the same. Basically the only difference that an SSD would make for your game is 2 things. One, it would open faster as long as it is installed on the ssd and 2,  if the game must access any information of the drive during gameplay you may get a slight speed increas due to the ssd. That is just my understanding of it though.

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4 minutes ago, VerbalEmissions said:

From what I know SSD's are faster at loading but not so much running. The reasons is the the hdd has to spin up to speed before it can do with the ssd just does. But once said program is open it does not work any faster. For Example if you tried to open photoshop on an ssd it would open and be ready to use much faster the an hdd but one running they would perform the same. Basically the only difference that an SSD would make for your game is 2 things. One, it would open faster as long as it is installed on the ssd and 2,  if the game must access any information of the drive during gameplay you may get a slight speed increas due to the ssd. That is just my understanding of it though.

Yes that's correct.  There is no mystery about it.  It's a storage device.  If something has storage access speed as a bottleneck (a task such as loading a program) an SSD will help, but they don't do any processing.  It is not going to render images faster, get higher fps, etc.

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1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yes that's correct.  There is no mystery about it.  It's a storage device.  If something has storage access speed as a bottleneck (a task such as loading a program) an SSD will help, but they don't do any processing.  It is not going to render images faster, get higher fps, etc.

ya, that is what I thought...once open and running it is up to your cpu,ram and vram to take over where needed.

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4 minutes ago, mrHoot1 said:

What about when it comes to WD Black HDD's, apparently they're primarily used in gaming computers, soooooooooo.....?

That's because they're faster.  It's always great to get things loading faster, and of course you want to avoid the potential situation that I described where your game becomes unplayable because (for example) you are driving faster than the game can load, but assuming it's fast enough, how much "extra" speed the drive has doesn't matter at all.

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