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Eve on a SSD or HD ?

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PsiMin
Ranger Industries
The Rogue Consortium
#1 - 2013-10-08 21:47:51 UTC
Im getting a new pc this weekend so will be installing Eve :)

will it make any difference if i put the game on a Solid State drive or should i just put it on my normal Hard Drive.

Regards
Kialopreyst
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-10-08 21:49:10 UTC
It depends what you actually do, but I would recommend the SSD regardless.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2013-10-08 21:51:16 UTC
SSD

Won't help with latency related issues tho.

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PsiMin
Ranger Industries
The Rogue Consortium
#4 - 2013-10-08 21:54:33 UTC
cool thanks guys
ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#5 - 2013-10-08 22:15:47 UTC
I haven't had issues with Eve by using a HDD on my gaming rig, but a SSD would definitely help some load times and such. If you can afford it and aren't killing your space available too much by swapping to a SSD, go for it.

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Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-10-08 22:17:18 UTC
PsiMin wrote:
Im getting a new pc this weekend so will be installing Eve :)

will it make any difference if i put the game on a Solid State drive or should i just put it on my normal Hard Drive.

Regards



Everything works better on SSD, but I'm running EVE just fine with full settings on a regular HD.

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Nick Kumamoto
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-10-08 22:35:54 UTC
OS (Win 7 Pro) on the *main* SSD. EVE and other software (e.g. Skyrim) on another SSD. Mechanical 1TB HDD for other stuff. A bit of overkill perhaps, but what the hell.

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Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-10-08 22:45:49 UTC
I heard once that "Rooks and kings" have on their application to joining that they wont accept logistics/carrier who dont use an SSD
Hammer Crendraven
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-10-08 23:00:40 UTC
I am using an SSD for my operating system. HDD for everything else. Eve is stored on my HDD. But the swap files are so fast with the SSD it is like having 200 gigs of ram. You notice it with multiple clients running. Just make sure you have enough video card(s) to handle your multiple monitors.
Baggo Hammers
#10 - 2013-10-08 23:14:38 UTC
PsiMin wrote:
Im getting a new pc this weekend so will be installing Eve :)

will it make any difference if i put the game on a Solid State drive or should i just put it on my normal Hard Drive.

Regards




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Accujac Elimination
#11 - 2013-10-08 23:16:33 UTC
Eve doesn't particularly rely heavily on the hard drive, but I run an implementation both ways (motor HD on my main pc, SSD on my gaming notebook). The version of Eve on my SSD really is noticeably a little crisper and slightly more responsive, but not by a huge amount. About what I expected.

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Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-10-08 23:24:04 UTC
I HIGHLY recommend SSD's. I never build a computer without one. They boot your computer up SUPER fast and it will load the EVE client faster as well, but you wont see any boost in game performance. Thats what the GPU's are for.

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Nick Kumamoto
Doomheim
#13 - 2013-10-08 23:35:57 UTC
Montevius Williams wrote:
I HIGHLY recommend SSD's. I never build a computer without one. They boot your computer up SUPER fast and it will load the EVE client faster as well, but you wont see any boost in game performance. Thats what the GPU's are for.


I forgot to add that EVE on an SSD is really nice when running a small mining op with 4+ accounts.

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Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#14 - 2013-10-09 00:20:23 UTC
people still use platter drives? Shocked

ssd all the way man - it makes a massive difference.

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Noriko Mai
#15 - 2013-10-09 01:06:45 UTC
Montevius Williams wrote:
I HIGHLY recommend SSD's. I never build a computer without one. They boot your computer up SUPER fast and it will load the EVE client faster as well, but you wont see any boost in game performance. Thats what the GPU's are for.

LOL. How old are you? 12?

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brinelan
#16 - 2013-10-09 01:27:06 UTC
Go SSD..
Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2013-10-09 02:14:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Kidd
Ursula Thrace wrote:
people still use platter drives? Shocked

ssd all the way man - it makes a massive difference.


Yes, they are indeed.

From a practical perspective, however, most apps don't realize the potential of a SSD beyond initialization. I think I can wait 10s more for my app to load and take the money I would have spent on a SSD and purchase a drive with a better $$/GB ratio. As for booting, hands down SSD is the way to go if you don't want to wait 60 whole seconds for your system to boot. For me, yes still on platters, this only needs to be done after power outages and the odd update requiring reboot. Otherwise, I just sleep the computer and whalaa! SSD boot speeds.

As for Eve, if you're not using resource caching, then yes, SSD will improve performance. But who doesn't have more than enough ram to enable resource caching......for multiple clients?

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Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#18 - 2013-10-09 02:17:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Erotica 1
Rhatar Khurin wrote:
I heard once that "Rooks and kings" have on their application to joining that they wont accept logistics/carrier who dont use an SSD


Here's how I imagine these conversations going in local:


anonymous freighter pilot: I just lost another freighter to Goons, how are they so fast?!
anonymous goon: Mittens buys us all gaming rigs with ssd's
anonymous freighter pilot: GRRR Goons!

Personally, I mainly use a very basic laptop with integrated video and I can still run multiple clients. Not well mind you. But I'm sure the next computers I get will all have ssd's. Even if it doesn't improve your performance for what you use it for right now, if you have the money and it may make sense within the expected time you will use the computer, why not? For PC's, I usually get something where you get the best bang for the buck- looking for best performance without paying ridiculous prices. Then I keep it longer than average, maybe upgrading the video card once before eventually gifting it to a friend or family member who needs a computer but can't afford one.

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2013-10-09 05:55:01 UTC
Running multiple clients on a 256G SSD...

Best spend ever.

Everything else can run of my normal HD... I don't need to run Office from my SSD so only my games and OS runs from on my SSD.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#20 - 2013-10-09 06:03:21 UTC
An SSD did nothing to improve load times for me, switching from gate to gate. My system is still limited by network latency and video card speed. I'm not routinely flying in fleets of hundreds of different ship classes, but then when it is a 200ms round trip for every packet ("ship #33 is type #24 with effect #37") it really doesn't matter whether the ship model can be loaded in 20ms or 5ms.

If you have a limited budget, your order of preference should be:

  1. video card texture memory to >2GB
  2. system memory to >4GB
  3. faster video card
  4. faster CPU
  5. faster HD
  6. lower latency Internet
  7. higher bandwidth Internet


Having a blindingly fast HD is going to be no use to you if your system spends all its time swapping to disk because you don't have enough video and system RAM to hold all the required textures.

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