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”.

  • 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