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Difference in FPS from SSD to HDD

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September 17, 2014 2:22:54 PM

Ok, we've all done our research and got the answer of "if you use an ssd you will see a slight FPS improvement if any.. 2-3..".. well.. thats wrong, a complete lie.. get your heads out your backside whoever says that, get the 2 and compare yourself. (Sorry for being so offensive there)

Playing battlefield bad company 2 on my SSD when i first built my pc, was so fast it was silly, 170+ fps with vsync turned off, although i kept vsync on after initial testing.. and that was a pretty constant 170+..

Now ive installed a 1TB HDD (WD blue 7200rpm) to my pc for games, after all.. SSD only helps a little..

first attempt of playing bfbc2 = 50fps.. with vsync on... ok so i did have my GPU overclocked with the above FPS and SSD combination. So i went and overclocked my GPU back to original specs, then went back in game and removed vsync and tried a different map. Much to my delight i got my 60FPS + back.. average around 80 and max 100.. Thats a very big difference, just from the only difference being a HDD...

It also now takes more of my CPU usage.. it was roughly 70% 50% and the other 2 cores between 0 and 30% (obviously swapped continuously between the 4 cores) but on average it was fairly obvious only 2 cores were really doing work.. now all 4 are 70-80%.. This is terrible, with an OC 4ghz cpu, a fairly decent GPU.. (still very playable) but the difference is staggering!! its almost half the FPS from when i had it on SSD.. Anyone else noticed anything like this?

Long story short, anyone looking at building a gaming pc and only intend to play a handful of games, i would strongly suggest sticking the games on your SSD.. I personally only have 3 or 4 games, Sniper elite 3 being the toughest on my components and ive yet to re-download that. I dont play games much, just wanted a PC that was capable if need be.

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September 17, 2014 2:26:19 PM

You my have a busted HDD, you will not see a difference in frame rate using a SSD compared to an HDD. You will see some faster load times and if there is area loading within a game you will see that has been improved but for the most part your standard 7200rpm hard drive moves the required information quick enough that it won't bottle neck your other components when it comes to gaming.

I recommend trying a new HDD along with fresh installs for a better comparison.
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September 17, 2014 2:26:26 PM

why did u post this as a question
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September 17, 2014 2:28:39 PM

As a true scientest, you should have put the SSD back and tested it again. It could have just been an anomaly. Repeated trials are necessary if you want to have a good theory as a hypothesis can be disproven. If you did it again, it probably would have worked perfctly fine. Also, is the HDD new or used already? This could have also been the problem. Sorry that I am being so scientific.
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September 17, 2014 3:05:54 PM

The SSD had reinstallations of everything 3 times. Until I was happy with everything.

The HDD is brand new and working 100% fine, it arrived today and everything was another fresh install.. This is tried and tested, the SSD plays the game much easier, not to mention the CPU usage I mentioned.. Its almost 100% and I've OC the CPU, when before I used it at stock and it used 2 cores alot and the other 2 didn't so much.

I don't know why its a question, my bad. I didn't see an option for anything else

To make it clear, OS and all updates and programs are on SSD, only games and back up are on the HDD
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September 18, 2014 5:59:33 AM

Typically, a SSD won't affect FPS, due to games pre-loading as much as they can into memory, so as long as you have more memory then the game needs at any one point (4GB is typically enough), then you won't undergo much paging, and thus, the HDD isn't even being used in a way that could affect FPS in any measurable way. An SSD will improve loading times significantly though, due to needing to copy all the data into RAM.

So unless you are RAM limited, the HDD shouldn't be causing any slowdown in-game. That being said, as BFBC2 is a lot more RAM hungry then most games, so I could see a 4GB system running into paging issues. Only way to confirm this would be via process explorer to take a peek at HD activity and available RAM.

Also, the choice of HDD or SSD should NOT be affecting CPU rates in any measurable way. That indicates something else is messed up, like a RAID driver gone amok or something.
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September 23, 2014 9:49:44 AM

No ive got 8gb ram, never use more than 4. and ive noticed my HDD loads sniper elite 3 at equal speed, if not faster. The loading screen for multiplayer too.. the percentage from 0-100% was always fast on SSD, but quite often got to 33% where it stopped long enough to see 33%, on the HDD its 0-100% without getting a readable figure.. But it is a kingston SSD V300 - ive read they changed their NAND chips after they got good results and feedback. My SSD tests show write speed 50mbps and read 170mbps.. POOR
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September 23, 2014 10:32:17 AM

Once the game loads, the CPU, RAM and video card do pretty much everything. Try this, CLONE the SSD setup to the regular hard drive and then see what happens. One game, one person and one system does not make for a conclusive test.

It wold be like me jumping into a lion cage at the zoo, kissing the lion and jumping out then saying "kissing lions at the zoo is safe, the rest of you don't know what you are talking about!".
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