Does anyone play PS2 on a SSD? If so does it make much of a difference? I was thinking about getting one for games.
I play it from an SSD, but i dont have much experience playing it from a standard HDD. id do it. but thats just me
Helps with load times. That's all it ever does There's a fair bit of loading in PS2 though. Spawn across the contient? load. Change continents? load. Before you even get into the game you load first the main screen and then the last continent you were on. Nothing outside load screens would be affected though. Also, due to it's high patch frequency, it's probably better not to have it on SSD TBQH.
Some games (and my OS for that matter) load almost instantly on my SSD's but PS2 is only a tiny increase over my HDD. I moved it back to my HDD due to it taking up so much space for little to no speed increase.
I have PS2 main on my SSD and the Test client on a 7200 RPM drive. The main loads notably faster, but it's definitely not instantaneous.
It's a very noticeable improvement in load times. That is initially loading, any continent swapping, or longer range respawning. It's not going to change the game like in say BF3-4 where an SSD mean you get the vehicle you want 99% of the time. For ref I have the main game on a samsung 840 pro, the test client on a 7200 rpm sata 3 hdd.
Load times melt your face off. Ok not that fast but its a very very noticeable difference. And I have not experienced double and triple loads that I can remember after going SSD.
FWIW: New patch went out today with a 15 second "warm up time" to all matches... so that will matter even less in BF4 now.
Pretty much it helps with loading times. It also helps with shadowplay hitching if you have that problem.
I reinstalled the client on a SSD after the account transfer from P7S1 to SOE. Im from login to deploy screen now in ~10 seconds (1min+ before). Also i had to wait several seconds in the map until everything was loaded before i could do anything. Now it loads pretty fast. Unexpected loading times with short stutters are completely gone. Overall world building seems to be increased also. 10-15 Seconds continent loading is decreased to a few seconds. Game run smoother overall, but might be my imagination. Far distance rendering looks faster but wasn't really a problem before.
It really is almost entirely loading times if you have enough main and video RAM to begin with, but it is disapointing to go back to a HDD (although those hybrid ones are supposed to be ok) after playing on an SSD even just because of that. (oh and noise too, if you have a fast and noisey HDD, especially if you have say an otherwise very quiet watercooled PC)
It did help my loading times a fair bit, but by far the best thing was to use it as my main Windows drive. Windows boots in a few seconds, programs open much faster, that annoying "gotta regenerate thumbnails for no reason" issue in Windows Explorer takes only a fraction of the time, it's been great. So great that I bought a second SSD just for games, my old 1 TB HDD is purely storage now.
