#Fallout new vegas endless loading mod#
#Fallout new vegas endless loading mods#

It would be quite interesting if an SSD would have a real effect here, and to my knowledge it so far does not.

#Fallout new vegas endless loading mod#

If I remember the engine from my morrowind mod days correctly, that is a special case in those games with its explicit cell system, but it probably basically applies to all 3D-games that include moving through big areas, since they all have to load textures at the time they come in reach. But you also have cell transitions that are streamed вЂ“ you talked about texture streaming above - when travelling on foot through the game world. Like I wrote below, explicit area transitions - entering a city, loading a save game - will of course benefit from an SSD, a lot. I think we were not talking about the same thing (anymore?). > Area/Cell transitions are MUCH faster on an SSD. You did not say that you played Skyrim first on a HDD and then on a SSDвЂ¦ But normally, SSDs are a lot more expensive than a HDD, see above. Like I said: No reason not to, if you have the SSD anyway. > They didn't cost me much, so why wouldn't I do it? You underestimate the performance of a regular HDD that is not a shitty 2.5 model cooked to death in an overheating laptop. Initial loading times will be better of course, and loading times when switching locations, but not performance otherwise. That would cause some pretty heavy thrashing on an HDD. > My own Skyrim installation uses nearly 4Gb of video memory when wandering around the wilderness. Fallout: New Vegas I played for more hours I'm comfortable admitting, heavily modded, on a better machine, same story there. The streaming of those engines is just too good.

If texture streaming would profit much from an SSD, you would see that in the FPS.ДЇallout 3 was played by me on a very old machine, of course without an SSD, and I remember no noticeable cell loading outside. Other games will go on my regular HDD's because you are right at least in saying that not all games will benefit from it, but some will. They didn't cost me much, so why wouldn't I do it? There is literally no reason for me to not do this in a high-end system meant for playing games.

I have two SSD's in my personal machine, one 128Gb for the OS and one 500Gb for Steam and some games. There is nothing about SSD's being used to store games that is a 'waste' if those things are important to you. My own Skyrim installation uses nearly 4Gb of video memory when wandering around the wilderness.

#Fallout new vegas endless loading mods#

Again, this is where SSD's will make a difference.ДЄn SSD becomes even more useful when you start installing high-resolution texture mods to games like these. These games (like many open world games) stutter when new cells/areas are loaded (I'm not talking about regular texture streaming). You claimed it didn't, as this is contrary to all avaialble information. I gave Fallout 3 and Skyrim as an example of texture loading where an SSD would matter. Some games are painfully long in these areas (take any Total War game as an example) and an SSD will help.

You cited main loading times like loading a game and loading a save, which are enough reason themselves to want an SSD in there. That HardOCP article (and HarcOCP are not really known for their quality articles anyway) is testing for framerate imrpovements.ДЄn SSD will not improve your framerate much at all (That's not what you use an SSD for).