tVEC Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hey there, I just wondering if the following is a normal loading time for an SSD- I have: my games on a separate OCZ Agility 3 60GB, with about 30GB free z68 MB i5-2500k at 3.8ghz HIS IceQ X HD 6790 1GB 16GB 1600 RAM Crucial M4 128 GB SSD for OS My Skyrim Data folder is about 11.3GB and I'm set at 7 ugrids to load. I have loading times of nearly 1 minute from the OCZ. Windows 7 boots in seconds. Crystal Disk reports the following for my OCZ: Sequential Read : 209.331 MB/s Sequential Write : 62.574 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 202.556 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 63.394 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 30.881 MB/s [ 7539.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 62.986 MB/s [ 15377.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 84.553 MB/s [ 20642.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 57.280 MB/s [ 13984.3 IOPS] Test : 100 MB [D: 58.5% (32.7/55.9 GB)] Overclockers.com review benchmark, same drive, intel controller: SEQ = 201.9 , 78.29512K = 187.7 , 78.764K = 16.68 , 58.23 Thanks for any input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzalias Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) I just moved Skyrim to my 32GB OCZ drive (via junctions) and it's loading slower than my 5400RPM HDD. I don't have exact numbers, but with the HDD I can't finish reading the tips (I'm a damned fast reader too), whereas with the SSD several tips come up. EDIT: Nevermind, the difference was caused by supersampling. The switch between the two drives made no appreciable difference, though. Edited January 25, 2012 by dzalias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GomuGomu64 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Sounds like Defragmentation to me. I recommend AusLogic's Defragger. The Defrag&Optomize feature is godly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom2681 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 That sounds more like too many HD texture mods to me.Your Skyrim folder should be close to 6GB, not 11. It takes a lot of time to load all that stuff into your RAM and GPU memory. I have Skyrim installed on a mid-range SSD and loading times never exceed 4-5 seconds. Lots of mods installed but no additional textures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tVEC Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Hello all, I ended up doing a repair install of Windows 7. After some online research I learned the most likely culprit was the OS even though it is on a separate drive. It probably was a windows setting as the bios was never changed for the new install. I had already pre-configured it weeks ago. Anyway at least I learned more about Windows and SSds. After the repair my 11GB game loads in 10 seconds max. Hey there, GomuGomu64- I'm not sure its a good idea to degrag a SSD- from what I've heard from many sources this can degrade its performance, shorten its life, if not ruin it. SSDs have a limited number of writes. I do like Auslogics for HDDs, however. Yes and with the new patch I reinstalled Skyrim and most of my mods and some new ones as well, mostly HD textures, and everything is a-ok and smooth as silk. Loads even faster now despite a 15GB game folder. Lesson learned: don't go willy nilly on the texture mods until you have a well defined plan of which ones overlap, which ones you want, and the order you need to install them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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