What games on the SSD?

[IronWarrior]

So what type of games do people install on their SSD? Or what sort works best on them?

I have BFBF2, BF3 and L4D2 on mine, what else should I put?

I have tons on my other drive installed.

[kalniel]

Whatever you play most often and/or benefits from quick map loads.

I have Shift 2, The Witcher 2, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3.

Shift 2 and Starcraft 2 both have quite lengthy load times while they put everything for the level/track into RAM, so the SSD speeds that up significantly. TW2 and Diablo 3 both do a lot of streaming as you load up chunks of the game at a time, so the SSD makes them play much more smoothly.

[deejayburnout]

Whatever you install on a SSD, will run faster.

I use mine as a boot drive and windows functions a lot better.
Any game you install will run faster.

Sent from somewhere other than my PC.

[Terbinator]

BF3/BC2 will see massive gains from the SSD.

[Saracen]

So what type of games do people install on their SSD? .....

It's simple for me - I don't have any installed.

[IronWarrior]

There is gains for sure for BF3 on the SSD, Going Hunting loaded pretty fast in under 10 or so seconds. BFBC2 there wasn't much gain over my F3 1TB, I think it's slightly faster but not by much to be honest.

L4D2 there wasn't much a difference, it's faster still but not as fast as you think it should be. Alan Wake loads pretty fast, am happy with that. I also got Space Marine loaded on it, but haven't tested that yet.

I hear that SSD's are great for RTS type of games, but haven't got any loaded yet.

[GoNz0]

all my games are on SSD, i got a 256gb M4 for games. normally one of the 1st on the map, in a tank and capped 2 flags before some of my clan join.

[EpicRaawr]

i have installed on my sdd i have steam and origin BF3 BFBC2 MW3 MW2 COD4

[kalniel]

I hear that SSD's are great for RTS type of games, but haven't got any loaded yet.

Not especially. Depends on the game, but Starcraft2 for example loads everything into RAM each level it seems, so aside from the initial load there's not much benefit (granted, that initial load is a bit quicker, but it's not a huge gain).

[Akkanmere]

I generally install everything onto my hard drive, then use Steam Mover to just move the couple of games I am actively the playing the most at any given time onto my SSD. Works great as long as you don't mind waiting every once in a while while things move back and forth between drives

[blueflame8]

Any MMORPGs

[Paul Adams]

I don't install any games on my SSD, that is used just for Windows itself.

The main reason is that after the first time a game reads masses of data in from disk, the file sections are resident in the system cache and if that cache is memory-resident (I have 12GB RAM, so this is likely) then there is zero disk I/O anyway.

So long as I make Windows sleep & resume instead of shutting down & restarting, the cache contents remain intact - so the only time I notice any delays waiting for disk I/O is on the first launch following a restart.

[ZaO]

As said - anything with big load times. People say that hdd's have no affect on framerates but I'm thinking that maybe they could in a game with a big streaming world. Something like Arma might see benefits in that way. I really don't know though but it could be worth a try if you have any games like that...

[markini6]

I've been wondering how long I'll be able to survive on a 128GB SSD. My budget has become so tight that it's between a copy of windows or a 500GB HDD, so I think I'll have to sacrifice the latter for a month or so. Sadly, I think that means my soon to be new PC will only be able to try out indie games and two 'lookers' at most