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Tera run better on HDD than on an SSD. Why?

HonyakiHonyaki
in TERA PC - General Discussion
So, I have this annoying problem that most people have
in PvP, players are not being animated fast enough, so when fighting at highly crowded places, I cannot know who to focus.
Someone said, it's cause of the HDD speed, and I agree. They added so many costumes to the game, it's hard for the hard drive to find the files to display costumes.
So, I went and bought an SSD, 850 Evo to be exact (One of the best reading speeds SSD)
And to my surprise, this problem is worse than what it was on my HDD
Why? any ideas?
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  • JoHighnesJoHighnes ✭
    Which operating system are you running? Windows Defender on Windows 10 is a [filtered] when it comes to gaming. Gotta exclude the game folder from the live protection to get some sort of playability at all. Just a guess.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Toss the Tera folder into your AV exclusions tab. SSD shouldn't be slower than HDD. At least if you have also done the things you need to do to an SSD and your OS to make it run more efficiently.
  • SawaoSawao ✭✭
    I experienced literally the same thing and I haven't a clue why.
  • navjack27navjack27 ✭
    i wish i had more then 32gb of ram to see how tera runs on a ramdisk
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Adding an SSD to your PC is not only just about adding it. There's a few other things to do in order to make it work at it's most efficient way. but about Tera, adding it to the AV folder exclusion usually works well as a star.
  • HonyakiHonyaki ✭✭
    edited June 2016
    It's not about defender, this issue is about slow loading time of costumes (Like the PC Limit you have on Graphic settings).
    My FPS are actually great for FWC. stays 30+
    The problem, for example, when I teleport to Highwatch, you see lots of people are not being animated. And slowly they start to get animated one by one.
    This issue is harmless, in pve. but in pvp it's a big problem
    And I am running windows 10, boot time is 13 sec. I am connected to tera within 70 sec from turning the PC on. So it's not about the SSD config
    But still, I moved tera folder to HDD and it works way better, I put on SSD, much slower loading times.

    Edit: My guess is, that because my HDD is TOTALLY empty, it works faster.
    It has only Tera on it.
    And a while ago, i was having this issue with the HDD (Before i got the SSD) So I defraged my HDD, Defraged Tera folder and it improved like hell
  • HonyakiHonyaki ✭✭
    Sawao wrote: »
    I experienced literally the same thing and I haven't a clue why.

    Download Defraggler, use it to defrag your whole HDD and then go to Tera Folder, and right click on it, and defrag it.
    For me, it helped a ton. From not displaying 90% of the players, to only 10-15%
  • JoHighnesJoHighnes ✭
    edited June 2016
    Honyaki wrote: »
    It's not about defender, this issue is about slow loading time of costumes

    You say you think it's an issue with loading resources slowly from HD but that it's not related to defender. Does it mean you've already added it to excludes (if so, okay) or that you just believe it is unrelated?

    What defender (and most AV ware with live protection) does is to check every file the game wants to use, causing reading from disk to be really painfully slow. If you have not added it to excludes because you think it shouldn't matter, it might just be the cause.
  • navjack27navjack27 ✭
    edited June 2016
    GUYS he is saying the spinning disk is faster then the ssd. you don't defrag an ssd. i'm sure it has to do something with random 4k read speed.

    EDIT: stay on topic please, we know, disable defender or add to exclusion list of AV software (which why are you running either of these things to begin with, group policy editing FTW)
  • HonyakiHonyaki ✭✭
    I said it's not about defender cause I disabled it from MSCONFIG but it seems to be back,. So I will try
  • navjack27navjack27 ✭
    honyaki, ur fine. i know its not about defender lol. if it was, then ur spinning disk would also be slow.
  • Kakao2203Kakao2203 ✭
    edited June 2016
    Honyaki wrote: »
    I said it's not about defender cause I disabled it from MSCONFIG but it seems to be back,. So I will try

    On windows 10, Windows Defender activates automatically if you don't have another AV installed or disabled it per group policies, even if you deactivate it.

  • navjack27navjack27 ✭
    we gonna get off of it being defender? if it is i'll eat my hydrath hat
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2016
    Another thing about your SSD, it it fills up to a certain capacity, it will actually read much slowly. This happens to Evo SSDs with Over Provisioning disabled, and can actually shorten their usable life.

    Also, you do not defrag an SSD. Not in part, not in whole.

    As for Windows 10, it will reactivate AV indeed if it gets disabled. That OS is not bad, but it wants you to relinquish way too much control over your computer. I assume it's because of so many I-can't-computer peoples who like to delete System32 because a page on 4chan told them so.
  • Mobius1Mobius1 ✭✭✭
    edited June 2016
    What CPU/GPU do you have?

    It could be that your HD has nothing to do with it.
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