shogun 2 on ssd, any one tried

[webtax]

any one tried loading times in an ssd with shogun2 ?

[mujrim]

I wish Steam would allow me to choose which drive I wanted to put individual games on.

[Humble Warrior]

I wish Steam would allow me to choose which drive I wanted to put individual games on.

Yea, I remember when I tried putting Steam in one place and trying to install the game somewhere else. That was when I discovered I couldn`t. This meant I had to uninstall the whole thing since the drive I had Steam on was too small. Steam is like an ogre that has every game inside its belly. That was a pain and a half. Die, steam- DIE!

Oh as to the SSD thing haven`t tried, but it would probably work and be a little faster to access files.

[raistlinmajere8]

Yea, I remember when I tried putting Steam in one place and trying to install the game somewhere else. That was when I discovered I couldn`t. This meant I had to uninstall the whole thing since the drive I had Steam on was too small. Steam is like an ogre that has every game inside its belly. That was a pain and a half. Die, steam- DIE!

Oh as to the SSD thing haven`t tried, but it would probably work and be a little faster to access files.

It's actually relatively simple to install steam to a different drive, or somewhere other than program files. Maybe actually doing some research, and reading some of the FAQ's on Steam would help you out.

But obviously you're just set in your hate, and have no desire to look at these things.

Oh well.

[Humble Warrior]

It's actually relatively simple to install steam to a different drive, or somewhere other than program files. Maybe actually doing some research, and reading some of the FAQ's on Steam would help you out.

But obviously you're just set in your hate, and have no desire to look at these things.

Yea, that`s right, because I like having to jump through hoops for a 3rd party utilty I don`t need and don`t want. When once upon a time I could put my game files WHERE I wanted EASILY without being blocked or needing to go to some stupid site to read how to do what I used to always do no probs. `More convenient?` ha! Only if you`re stupid.

If you like being led around by the neck with a collar be my guest, but don`t even try and tell me what I should or shouldn`t do to suit your psycophantic love of Steamin` freshly minted bowel movement. I have no problem hating a utility even as I use it.

[kronpas]

I wish Steam would allow me to choose which drive I wanted to put individual games on.

That was the very reason I didnt buy a SSD for Shogun 2 after the video card. I couldnt afford any SSD that > 80GB, yet all my Steam games + windows took like 80 -100GB ..............

[AngryTitusPullo]

There's a way if you have many games though time consuming. Put only the game you want to play in steam folder and the rest in D drive. If you want to play next game then copy the you you no longer playing to D drive and put the game you want to play in steam folder.

[Chopy]

I use Diskeeper and it keeps HDD 100% defraggmented all the time , so game works fast in this aspect , because i always have to wait for others to load in mp.

[Lionheartx10]

I use Diskeeper and it keeps HDD 100% defraggmented all the time , so game works fast in this aspect , because i always have to wait for others to load in mp.

True but its also due to varying internet connections as to how fast people load in multiplayer too. But yes a defragmented HDD will speed this up too.

[Matamoros]

As far as I know, the loading times will be reduced to the half. Source from pc games hardware (a prestigious and reliable german hardware magazine)

[deckon]

well I'm using a ocz vertex2 ssd drive and battle map load times are around 25 seconds. However in NTW it was around 14 sec-15 secs. So somehow map loading times gone up for this game even though it's using the same engine and you would expect better optimization
Keep in mind I'm using a phenomII x4 with 8GB Ram and ATI 6870.

[Birk]

any one tried loading times in an ssd with shogun2 ?

Maybe this give you a good answer Using Corsair F series SSD.

[Matamoros]

Maybe this give you a good answer Using Corsair F series SSD.

Goddammit this is fast. My sata drive takes at least 1-2 minutes. I should buy one of these right now.
OCZ Vertex 3 surely.

[nightwar]

Goddammit this is fast. My sata drive takes at least 1-2 minutes. I should buy one of these right now.
OCZ Vertex 3 surely.

Seriously??? My sata drive loads at that speed. I have a 7200rpm 1tb WD caviar black

[eregost]

Maybe this give you a good answer Using Corsair F series SSD.

Wow, wish this was my PC. The Warscape games take ages to load for me, particularly on startup

[Ferdiad]

Maybe this give you a good answer Using Corsair F series SSD.

You must have a bad SSD I have a oldish HD that dosn't take much longer than that.

[Birk]

You must have a bad SSD I have a oldish HD that dosn't take much longer than that.

You're a big liar

[Ecka65]

I suppose I'll have to make a vid. I'm using a 1 TB WD Blue SATA 3 HDD (6 GB / sec) and my loading times aren't any slower than the above vid. The drive cost me bugger all. I think the SATA 3 helps, but the SSD should be killing it. The problem isn't the drives, it's the games programme.

As for optimization, I read a theory somewhere that CA has two teams - one working on next release and one working on latest release then the one after next. It makes a lot of sense to me and I'm starting to believe it. S2TW is full of redundant rubbish left over from Empire, but I haven't found anthing related to NTW. NTW ran better (imo), was less resource hungry (imo), and had better graphics (imo). All I can say is, if the theory is correct I can't wait for the next TW. I might buy every second one from now on.

[Dead Guy]

There is a way to have games installed in steam on another drive than steam itself.

It involves a symlink. You basically cut and paste the game folder from the steam apps folder to another location on another drive, and then link to it so steam thinks it's still in the steam folder.

Details here:
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=11284917&postcount=1004

I'm doing this so I can have resource heavy games like Shogun 2 on my SSD system drive and old games that still require huge amounts of disk space (I'm looking at you Medieval 2!) on my storage drive.

[joewagner501]

I use a Patriot Torqx SSD and have load times on par with Birk. My laptop has a Patriot SSD in it as well so I don't have a "regular" HDD to compare load times to but the wait for me (and Birk) isn't bad.