For context, my brother gave me Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 for my birthday, and it has to be installed on an SSD. When I installed it on my D: drive, which, is an HDD, the game froze a few seconds into the opening cutscene, but the sound kept playing. After looking up this problem online, I found out that the hardware requirements section on the game’s store page says “SSD required”.

  • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    WD Black SN850X is generally considered to be a pretty good choice. Make sure you have an NVME slot compatible with an M.2 2280 drive.

  • pcalau12i@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    My gaming PC has a Samsung 990 EVO and a couple SK hynix Platinum P41. Both have worked great for me without any issues.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I’ve personally found the pcpartpicker website to be a great comparison resource for specs and prices, also decent for checking compatibility.

    Consider if you want to have a smaller or medium sized SSD startup drive (C:) and a larger second HDD drive (D:) since HDD is cheaper. That would probably require a new Windows Linux :) re-installation but the computer will be faster to load and run programs installed on the SSD.

    That said, I don’t game much but I don’t understand why an HDD could possibly cause a game to freeze instead of just load slowly. Are you sure it’s not some other incompatibility, like running 32 bit (x86) instead of 64 bit (x86 64, unfortunately aka x64), or not having a compatible GPU? [edit: see replies]

    • Vertraumir@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 days ago

      I don’t understand why an HDD could possibly cause a game to freeze instead of just load slowly

      Modern game developers don’t cache textures into ram or GPU and prefer to load them on demand, so your disk is always working and and your game will freeze or look like 2 pixels if it’s not fast enough to serve all the textures on time

  • comrade-bear@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    Most any of them will work fine, for more information check here. So it’s more a matter of budget, I’d focus on size, just making sure it’s from a reliable brand(Kingston, adata, western digital, Samsung, I’m sure im forgetting some others) and that it has a DRAM controller(which should be the vast majority of them just keep on the lookout for ones that seem too cheap for their size). I’d only focus on speed if you deal on moving large files, such as movies or high res images or renders with some regularity. Otherwise for gaming I’d say size is the priority.

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    Ideally something with DRAM based on TLC NAND. That said if you’re NOT going to run an OS off it and just games QLC NAND should be fine though I’d still want DRAM.

    Here’s the thing though. If you’re getting an NVMe based drive (because you have a free NVMe slot on your motherboard) many don’t have DRAM and can be fine (it’s still better but their higher speeds and things like using host RAM mean they can get away with it).

    Amazon’s on page AI question assistant should usually be able to tell you whether a drive is TLC by simply asking it “TLC”, same with whether it has DRAM though you can also look up details like this on certain tech review sites.

    I’d stick to the brands mentioned in the other comment as well as Crucial and SK Hynix. Those two plus Samsung I believe are the only ones in the west who actually make the NAND storage while others just make a controller.