Optimal file setup.

[TheLonelyPickle]

I am playing Star Citizen and in its unoptimized state it often consumes 25+GB of system memory. I have 16GB but the overflow is handled reasonably well on SATA SSD Pagefile. Get hitches pretty often but recovers after a few seconds. I now have an NVME PCIE 3 x4 Ultra M.2 setup to run game or pagefile or both.

 

Will I see lowest latency and highest performance from leaving Game on SATA SSD and run pagefile off NVME SSD, leaving pagefile on SATA and moving Game to NVME, or running them both off NVME? I would think that given the lesser need for file transfers by having the files and pagefile on same drive, it would be much lower latency, but would the drive try to transfer files to itself and eat up it's own bandwidth?

[seagate_surfer]

Hi TheLonelyPickle,

 

The video games require every second to load a new texture or animation and that is more related to memory than the hard drive, just like the videos/images editing programs the video games demand a lot from the CPU and the RAM, the RAM memory can be understood as the temporary space to assist the processor to comply with that demand, so things like enabling the dual channel in your RAM memory will definitely double the transfer rates, without proper workload handling methods like this you may experience lagging because of the time it would take the processor only to process all these frame rates.

 

When video gaming on NVME or SATA, the frames of the video game will not really improve that much in comparison to using HDD, they applications will load faster and that's a fact but the game itself will really not change just because you use a SSD or a HDD.

 

And yes it is definitely better to handle everything with the NVME SSD only.