Bindiman Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Really old thread, but i am also curious about this. I suffer with the same stuttering, because of disk reading problems. I have a 1TB HDD and am thinking to buy an SSD. Now, i have no doubt that this will eliminate my stuttering, as data reading from the disk will be greatly improved with an SSD, but here's the big question. Could i just simply copy all of my skyrim folders and mods etc ... to the SSD and play straight away from there ? Or would i have to install everything again from scratch ? I have put in alot of time and effort to get everything working with my Skyrim game, and it would be a shame if i had to do all that again. PM me or respond to this post would be greatly appreciated. Regards,Kyrie Iona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCMoffer Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 (edited) When I moved from HDD to SSD the effects was instant. Especially my load time.. whent from around 50sec-1,5min to a mere 15-20 sec. And if loading heavy modded areas like the open world areas it is down to 30sec... Useing RAID on top of that now atleast and it loads stupid fast and I have almost all of the popular HD texture packs on nexus installed and also most overhaul mods and so on. Think 150 mods... most of tehm HD Texture mods. It loads fast.. it's worth the price. Edited August 29, 2013 by MCMoffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bindiman Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 When I moved from HDD to SSD the effects was instant. Especially my load time.. whent from around 50sec-1,5min to a mere 15-20 sec. And if loading heavy modded areas like the open world areas it is down to 30sec... Useing RAID on top of that now atleast and it loads stupid fast and I have almost all of the popular HD texture packs on nexus installed and also most overhaul mods and so on. Think 150 mods... most of tehm HD Texture mods. It loads fast.. it's worth the price. Thats nice to hear. But can you just move all the files over to the SSD ? Is there a guide to do this, or through steam maybe or NMM ? How did you do it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetridentseal Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 You may not notice a big performance change while gaming, but the loading screens in Skyrim take about 30-50% longer to load when using an HDD, but it doesn't change the fps by much. I currently use a Samsung 830 EVO, but I am thinking about upgrading to the 850 EVO or maybe even one of these Recommended SSDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupdragon1234 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) Are you absolutely sure its a disk reading problems? Have you defragged the disk etc? When I moved from HDD to SSD the effects was instant. Especially my load time.. whent from around 50sec-1,5min to a mere 15-20 sec. And if loading heavy modded areas like the open world areas it is down to 30sec... Useing RAID on top of that now atleast and it loads stupid fast and I have almost all of the popular HD texture packs on nexus installed and also most overhaul mods and so on. Think 150 mods... most of tehm HD Texture mods. It loads fast.. it's worth the price. Thats nice to hear. But can you just move all the files over to the SSD ? Is there a guide to do this, or through steam maybe or NMM ? How did you do it ? Yes you can but assuming its your main or boot drive you'll have to install Steam first via the installer then you can copy the Skyrim folder over ....Steam\SteamApps\Common\Skyrim and you'll have to run verify cache to let Steam know it's there. Sometimes that doesn't work for some reason so launching TESV.exe directly will force Steam to acknowedge it. As for NMM do the same install it then copy over its mod install folder and its install logs folder contents. Mod load list is stored in C:\Users\<your name\AppData\Local\Skyrim you'll need loadorder.txt and plugins.txt and drop those in your new folder after you've run Skyrim via the Steam launcher at least once to let it detect and setup initial registry entries, etc. Oh and if you're running custom Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files then backup them too from ..\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim. Oh and last but not least don't forget to backup your savegames from My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves folder. Phew, that should cover it all. n.b. you'll probably have to install SKSE preferably from the installer again to let it set up shortcuts, etc if you're using that (and you should) Edited January 22, 2015 by soupdragon1234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothGamer9000 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 All this talk about SSD cards and then Graphics Cards helping big time for Skyrim and modding Skyrim, but I'm curious. What about USB's? Has anyone tried or considered even trying a USB, since SSD cards and USB's are both for storage? And yet you can get a 2 TB USB for $20 online, instead of buying a flipping $500 SSD card online for less room. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just brain storming over here and might even be a noob at this stuff. :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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