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Is it worth installing tera on an SSD?

LegateTRLegateTR
in TERA PC - General Discussion
I have a small SSD with limited space (120gb) which I believe should be enough space for Tera. However I have to be very picky about which games I put on the SSD because there isn't room for all of them. I'm looking to only put games on the SSD that will benefit from it the most (think open world games like Skyrim/Witcher). Is there a drastic difference in Tera's performance if I install it on an SSD versus a regular hard disk drive?

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  • JerichowJerichow ✭✭✭✭
    I would absolutely recommend it. The Tera folder in my steam library reads 42.3Gb so size is definitely not an issue, you could get away with putting 2-3 games on it easily.

    As Margarethe has said, I have also seen a very noticeable reduction in loading times since switching from my old mechanical drive to a Samsung 850 EVO, there is definitely a difference to be had when loading into new areas and loading character models and resources (going from gray silhouettes to animated players) - though it definitely does not become instant sadly (that is the fault of the game engine no hardware can overcome).

    It also depends on your CPU, what are you running by chance? If it is not a CPU with reasonably fast single thread performance, you may not get as much of a bump as per say someone with a higher end Intel or AMD setup such as an i5 or upper R5 series CPU. I also assume you have more than 8Gb of RAM in your computer? If so then memory won't be an issue no matter where you go or what you do.
  • LegateTRLegateTR ✭✭
    @Jerichow

    I have a gtx 1060 6gb, i5 6400, and 8gb of ram. Based on what I've seen here, I will go ahead and put it on my SSD. Thanks for your suggestions!

    Btw, is there a difference between installing via steam versus the installer on the site? By that I mean is one better than the other? (Better game performance/Less crash/faster install etc)
  • Idi0ticGeniusIdi0ticGenius ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's no difference on the game itself, except you get to buy EMP through steam wallet, some DLC stuff, and steam card thing. You can access steam overlay thing and you might want to disable or change screenshot button on steam (which is F12 by default).

    You can still run it standalone by going through steam folder and executing launcher from there instead of clicking play on Steam.

    I run through steam and it's running fine. I have more issues when I run it standalone, but idk why. People recommend running it standalone though.
  • YamazukiYamazuki ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2017
    The only difference in using Steam is that it sometimes makes you download a patch more than once. If you aren't in an area with data usage limits then it won't matter
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have tested TERA on 3 different situations:
    1 - this SSD it's on right now;
    2 - USB 3.0 external HD;
    3 - Internal HD

    The 2 last ones were identical in performance and usability. The game updates normally and all, you can literally move the installation anywhere you want to play it on, and it just runs there (from En Masse client, no idea on Steam).
    Load times were identical as the USB 3.0 has enough to put through the mechanical drive's latency on seek and it's max speed on big files.

    The SSD tho was like at least 3x faster boot up of the game. It's also nothing more than a Kingston V300 with the bad luck on silicon RNG roulette (these drives are famous for random performance, some are faster than others, mine is on the middle/slower side). The gray blob moments are also far shorter than on HD, as the files for character appearance/costumes load in a snap, unless connection is screwing me over. Flight through portals is a little faster (at most 2x), and so is Battleground and Instance/dungeon loads.

    The biggest advantage comes from the ridiculously faster start up. If you ever need to relog (and it's TERA, you do), it's really at least 3x faster.
  • ColdaraColdara ✭
    The real question is, why are you using anything but an SSD? I think they are cheap and large enough now that you can have a primary fast SSD and a secondary storage SSD. It is fast all around and makes for a less crowded case.

    At any point you want anything to load faster, your fastest SSD is the choice no question.
  • VirtualONVirtualON ✭✭✭
    It would be too expensive to store 10 TB of games/movies/music on SSD so HDD is still a must.
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coldara wrote: »
    The real question is, why are you using anything but an SSD? I think they are cheap and large enough now that you can have a primary fast SSD and a secondary storage SSD. It is fast all around and makes for a less crowded case.

    At any point you want anything to load faster, your fastest SSD is the choice no question.

    No, nowhere near as cheap per GB to become data drives, and an insanely big waste of speed for that task. I mean, you likely never needed to wait much when you copy files at 100MB/s+.

    There's also the degradation of the silicon per write operation, so if you delete and re-write a lot of stuff, SSDs should last less for data, albeit mechanically stronger against shocks.
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