Improving Loading Times

jahsavage · 11-21-10, 12:04 PM

I've been trying to improve game loading performance by using an SSD to load Silent Hunter 3, here's my findings for anyone who is interested :-

I'm running GWX 3.0 with about 25+ mods ~ Merchant Ship Mods + Aces Combined Mods 1.3 etc (26GB of game & mod data). If you wish to boot win7 and play Silent Hunter 3 then you should be looking at least a 128 GByte SSD.

To compare disk v SSD performance I have identical game copies on the hard disk and SSD with win7 and the save game directories on a different disk.

My Equipment is as follows :-

64GB Crucial C300-CTFD SATA 6GBytes/sec mounted as an extra disk
3x Samsung Hard Disk 1TB HD103SJ (a fast hard disk!)
Q6600 Processor @3.1GHz
8 GB Memory
Win 7 64 bit
ASUS P5K-E Motherboard

I've measured the time to load a typical at sea saved game :-

Time to load via Disk 6m 25sec
Time to load via SSD 5m 50sec

As you can see the difference is small and I'm pretty disappointed since I was expecting a much larger boost but I'll continue to tinker to see if I can improve things! One thing I did observe was that loading via SSD seemed to be steady and continueous but via the hard disk the data seemed load in chunks resulting in an uneven load.

Any suggestions on how to improve loading times would be appreciated!

11-21-10, 12:04 PM	#1
jahsavage Seaman Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bath, UK Posts: 37 Downloads: 112 Uploads: 0	Improving Loading Times I've been trying to improve game loading performance by using an SSD to load Silent Hunter 3, here's my findings for anyone who is interested :- I'm running GWX 3.0 with about 25+ mods ~ Merchant Ship Mods + Aces Combined Mods 1.3 etc (26GB of game & mod data). If you wish to boot win7 and play Silent Hunter 3 then you should be looking at least a 128 GByte SSD. To compare disk v SSD performance I have identical game copies on the hard disk and SSD with win7 and the save game directories on a different disk. My Equipment is as follows :- 64GB Crucial C300-CTFD SATA 6GBytes/sec mounted as an extra disk 3x Samsung Hard Disk 1TB HD103SJ (a fast hard disk!) Q6600 Processor @3.1GHz 8 GB Memory Win 7 64 bit ASUS P5K-E Motherboard I've measured the time to load a typical at sea saved game :- Time to load via Disk 6m 25sec Time to load via SSD 5m 50sec As you can see the difference is small and I'm pretty disappointed since I was expecting a much larger boost but I'll continue to tinker to see if I can improve things! One thing I did observe was that loading via SSD seemed to be steady and continueous but via the hard disk the data seemed load in chunks resulting in an uneven load. Any suggestions on how to improve loading times would be appreciated!