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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lot of modern AAA games require an SSD, actually.

On top of my head: ~~Cyberpunk~~, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space remake, Starfield, Baulder's Gate 3, Palworld, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Indeed, as others have said this isn't a hard requirement. Anyone with a handheld (e.g. Steam Deck) playing off a uSD card uses a device that's an order of magnitude slower for sequential I/O

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

But it is a hard drive requirement.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure, you might.

But Baulder’s Gate 3 for example, which claims to require an SSD in it's system requirements runs just fine on a HDD.

It's just the developer making sure you get optimal performance.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Once upon a time there was minimum/recommended specs. 😔

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

That's not how computers work, but sure bro.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Okay well try telling that to my computer when the games wouldn't run without constantly freezing to load assets every few seconds.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Both Cyberpunk and BG3 work flawlessly on the external USB hard drive that I use. The loading times suffer a bit, but not to an unplayable degree, not even close

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Cyberpunk literally has an HDD mode, I play it of an HDD every day.

With sufficient ram to load everything in you'll just have longer load times, no hdd hitchiness

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Forza Horizon 4 and 5 don't say they require an SSD I think, but when I had it on my hard drive any cars that did over 250kph caused significant world loading issues, as in I'd fall out of the world because it didn't load the map.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Forza Horizon 4 actually does include an SSD in its requirements. Thank you for reminding me about that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It does technically work without it, just don'tgo over A class, don't do sprints and there was 1 normal circuit that's a tad big in a forest bit

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If a game isn't fully playable without an SSD, then I consider it a requirement.

Ever try playing Perfect Dark without an Expansion Pak back in the day? It'll technically work, but you'll get locked out of 90% of the game, including the campaign. Similar thing with SSDs today.

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