Tuesday, September 1st 2020
SSD Becomes a System Requirement, 100GB SSD Required for WoW Shadowlands
PC game minimum system requirements have until now prescribed minimum storage space. Blizzard's upcoming "World of Warcraft: Shadowlands" changes this, with the game specifically calling for at least 100 GB of SSD storage. Windows already has a way of telling an HDD from an SSD, and game developers can in theory enforce the requirement. With "Shadowlands," though, there doesn't appear to be any enforcement, with numerous VIPs on the Blizzard forums reporting that the game should launch from HDDs, albeit game load times could hurt. With next-generation game consoles implementing SSD for their higher transfer rates - but more importantly - for their significantly lower access times compared to HDDs, SSD as a system requirement on the PC platform was bound to happen. The gaming industry is designing its next-generation gaming experiencing around the low access times of SSD, and an HDD would fall short. The game's other system requirements are listed below.
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77 Comments on SSD Becomes a System Requirement, 100GB SSD Required for WoW Shadowlands
stuttering issues like xfire and sli
;)
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You are also forgetting that cinematics, sound, music, etc. takes space too.
P.S.
Shadowlands will even have raytraced, well, shadows...