SSD hard drive

[Fifi]

Hi,

Planning to buy from long time an SSD drive, i will finally go for it in few weeks
I've choosen the Samsung SSD 840 500 Go, knowing and already having Samsung amazing quality products.
I'm quite sure it will be a good improvment to run SH5 on my rig, mainly loading times will drop probably half time, but maybe playability will be even smoother.

What do you think? Is it good choice?

Will post in time the differences noticed VS my old drive when i'll get it

[Haukka81]

It's great upgrade.

I have been SSD user now for two years, Makes windows 7 start in seconds and cut's loading times.


Go for it.


-haukka81

[Fifi]

Thanks for feedback Haukka

Is game itself a bit smoother?...meaning when teleporting or accessing scopes, must be instantaneous...or panning around externals views?
(i'm seconded by a ZOTAC 580)

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Thanks for feedback Haukka

Is game itself a bit smoother?...meaning when teleporting or accessing scopes, must be instantaneous...or panning around externals views?
(i'm seconded by a ZOTAC 580)

This is not a function of drive activity. This is a function of your motherboard/CPU/RAM/Video card. If they are 'fast' then everything is smoother. If you have low RAM (2-4GB) then SSD will play a small part (paging and swapping memory pages to/from virtual memory).

An SSD will drastically cut the loading times down. I have two OCZ Vertex 4's in a RAID 0 (SATAIII). It smokes

[bubbaisagod]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Thanks for feedback Haukka

Is game itself a bit smoother?...meaning when teleporting or accessing scopes, must be instantaneous...or panning around externals views?
(i'm seconded by a ZOTAC 580)

An SSD will decrease loading times but starting a game is still a b***h,
loading times after sinking your boat or a reload after messing up your torpedo solution is much faster.

For smooth teleporting, ... I suggest increasing your CPU clock: My PC runs on an Intel 2500K 3.3 GHz (stock),
after a few hours playing I changed the CPU clock to 3.8 GHz. The higher CPU speed eliminated 99% of in game stuttering.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

This is not a function of drive activity. This is a function of your motherboard/CPU/RAM/Video card. If they are 'fast' then everything is smoother. If you have low RAM (2-4GB) then SSD will play a small part (paging and swapping memory pages to/from virtual memory).

An SSD will drastically cut the loading times down. I have two OCZ Vertex 4's in a RAID 0 (SATAIII). It smokes

I have already 16 Gb RAM...

Originally Posted by bubbaisagod

I suggest increasing your CPU clock: My PC runs on an Intel 2500K 3.3 GHz (stock),
after a few hours playing I changed the CPU clock to 3.8 GHz. The higher CPU speed eliminated 99% of in game stuttering.

Yes, i plan to do it...but i need a friend's help. I'm not computer good enough.
I own an I7 875K @ 2.93 Ghz, and K means i can boost it

[tonschk]

I don't think with the SSD this SH5 simulator can become smoother, to reach that goal I am just about (next month) to upgrade from LGA775 core 2 duo E8500 to LGA2011 IB-E 4820K, and from ATI HD5870 to Nvidia GTX770 with 16Gb of 1600MHz RAM/DIMM

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by tonschk

I don't think with the SSD this SH5 simulator can become smoother, to reach that goal I am just about (next month) to upgrade from LGA775 core 2 duo E8500 to LGA2011 IB-E 8420K, and from ATI HD5870 to Nvidia GTX770 with 16Gb of 1600MHz RAM/DIMM

Going from Ati to Nvidia?....was almost thinking the inverse! (for me)...to avoid some SH5 glitches due to Nvidias....

[tonschk]

Hi, I while ago I contacted Pintea (SH5 developer), this is his opinion about ATI Radeon or Nvidia selection to play SH5, I hope Pintea don't mind if I post his view about this ATI/Nvidia issue



Quote:
Originally Posted by tonschk
Hello Pintea, can you tell me please which is better for Silent Hunter 5, the HD7970 or the GTX680 ?, thank you for your help

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pintea
Hello, I would choose the GTX680.
For this GPU generation, I am in favor of NVidia over ATI on almost any video card.

Quote:
Originally Posted by tonschk
Thank you very much for the answer, the reviews of the
HD7970 and GTX680 are a bit confused, for some games the AMD7970 is better and for other games the GTX680 is better, do you think the GTX680 can handle the code/files of this SH5 UBISOFT game better ? , thank you


Quote:
Originally Posted by Pintea
Hello, First of all, I do not believe that you will have any performance problem with any of them, since they're both very good and they should run SH5 at more than 60fps, after which point it becomes unnoticeable.

They have almost the same raw power specifications, therefore it's hard to judge which one will actually run faster specifically on SH5.

What I can tell you is that we had problems with ATI(AMD) cards an drivers, that's why I'm skeptical about ATI/AMD.

[Fifi]

Thanks for info
I'm not ready to change graphic card anyway, but was kind of tired of the triangles glitches due to Nvidia, each time i look up the sky.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Don't forget to NEVER defrag your SSD.

[scorpiondown]

learned something here today about SSD,s that i never knew.. After reading
Herr-Berbunch,s response,,looked this up : http://helpdeskgeek.com/featured-pos...defrag-an-ssd/

Thanks for adding that post Herr-Berbunch !

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by scorpiondown

Thanks for adding that post Herr-Berbunch !

My pleasure. Thanks for searching for it rather than blindly asking.

A good link.

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

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An SSD will drastically cut the loading times down. I have two OCZ Vertex 4's in a RAID 0 (SATAIII). It smokes

Then I suggest water cooling. Or find the short circuit in the power cables.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Don't forget to NEVER defrag your SSD.

Yeah, i knew that.
But i just learned about the trim feature, and the SSD i want support it