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Hey people, I am about to replace my laptop's optical drive with a 120GB SSD. My laptop can run GTA V just fine, but I am experiencing some lag when the HDD gets used by the OS. My question is, should I put the game on the SSD along with the system or should I leave it on the HDD? The HDD will not be used by the system right (Except for the page file, I don't want to put that thing on an SSD), so the lag should go away? To clarify, by 'lag', I mean freezes, not fps drops.
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SSD will only improve your game load and benefit open world games (realtime map loading). if you think the lags come from when you are vising new areas then transfer to the SSD. you may want to do a defrag of your HDD if you have been using that drive for more than half a year.

but most causes of microfreezes is due to your system running out of memory. during the microseconds system freeing up memory to use new ones will cause your system to freeze for some moment to try to recover from insufficient resources. you may want to optimize your virtual memory or upgrade your RAM.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2840886/if-windows-virtual-memory-is-too-low-you-can-increase-it-but-there-are-trade-offs.html
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SSD will only improve your game load and benefit open world games (realtime map loading). if you think the lags come from when you are vising new areas then transfer to the SSD. you may want to do a defrag of your HDD if you have been using that drive for more than half a year.

but most causes of microfreezes is due to your system running out of memory. during the microseconds system freeing up memory to use new ones will cause your system to freeze for some moment to try to recover from insufficient resources. you may want to optimize your virtual memory or upgrade your RAM.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2840886/if-windows-virtual-memory-is-too-low-you-can-increase-it-but-there-are-trade-offs.html
 
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