Even on SSD some games and programs sometimes take too long to start

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Rafael Mestdag

Rafael Mestdag

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I have a Sandisk 240GB SSD and it does the job well most of the time, it starts Windows 10 very fast for example. But when I start programs like Chrome it sometimes takes too long for an ssd to start it. The same goes for a few of my games.
Why is it?

My Rig:

FX6300
8GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
GTX 750 1GB
240GB Sandisk SSD (Main OS, Windows 10 Pro 64 on this one)
2TB HDD + 1TB HDD + 500GB HDD
PSU: 500W
 
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Most software needs to process a fair amount of data and initialize tons of libraries at load-time especially on the first start after a reboot where tons of common libraries haven't been loaded yet and there is nothing that even the fastest NVMe SSDs in RAID0 can do about that. If a game needs 20 seconds to parse, process the data it loads and initialize libraries while starting, the only things that will shorten that 20 seconds are a faster CPU and software rewritten to leverage multi-core/multi-threaded CPUs to make that load-time processing faster.

When I start GIMP after rebooting my PC, it takes 25-30 seconds to load, regardless of whether it is installed on my SSD or WD Black. If I close and reload it, it takes only 10 seconds...
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Most software needs to process a fair amount of data and initialize tons of libraries at load-time especially on the first start after a reboot where tons of common libraries haven't been loaded yet and there is nothing that even the fastest NVMe SSDs in RAID0 can do about that. If a game needs 20 seconds to parse, process the data it loads and initialize libraries while starting, the only things that will shorten that 20 seconds are a faster CPU and software rewritten to leverage multi-core/multi-threaded CPUs to make that load-time processing faster.

When I start GIMP after rebooting my PC, it takes 25-30 seconds to load, regardless of whether it is installed on my SSD or WD Black. If I close and reload it, it takes only 10 seconds since all the libraries, font caches and other stuff are still in memory and don't need to be reinitialized.
 
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Rafael Mestdag

Rafael Mestdag

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Actually I was confusing this one with an old SSD I had. This current one I've got is a Kingston SUV400 240GB.
 
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