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
Did MS fix SSD\HDD bug in the new win10OS ?. might actually stop you from playing it.
However, I can justify the recommendation of the SSD. I switched to a second SATA SSD in my desktop PC for games 2 weeks ago (just a 240GB one) to be able to run WoW from it. The loading times changed this way:
load time from launcher to main screen:
HDD: 11 sec
SSD: 4-5 sec
load time from launcher to character choice screen:
HDD: 19 sec
SSD: 10-11 sec
and the most important: load time from character choice screen to game (Boralus or Dalaran, can't remember):
HDD: 66-67 sec
SSD: 15 sec Well, you get a 50+ sec load time decrease with a single cheap SATA SSD. So yes, it is quite important for this game.
But what the computer really needs is another 2-4 TB SSD, probably even a M.2 SSD since i have one spare slot on my motherboard. but that is going to be really expensive. Anywhere between 350-500€ for a 2TB M.2 SSD and if i want a 4TB one, well that is going to be way more expensive than 500€. A normal person will not be paying more than 100-200€ for a drive. I would have added a 2TB M.2 SSD if it would not have costed 380-500€ for one in finland. that gets you a 4TB SATA SSD. Meanwhile 300-500€ gets you 8-12TB of HDD storage in a single drive. So when the drives in the system start to cost more than the rest of the system itself it starts to be painful for getting SSD's Atleast i have trashpicked 3 of thouse harddrives for free so its not that expensive but the whole cost for all the drives in my system as new would be about 700€ in total. I simply cant afford enough storage in SSD form to keep me going if i also want to upgrade the computer aswell.
So if something has to happen, its that the price of the SSD's would have to drop massively.
not even MSF2020 and its an actual masive game
Not impressive.
And do people still play this game? lol why that game will be stuck in development forever considering the constant feature creep.
GTV 5
Killer instinct
L4D2
Mortal Kombat 11
Soul Calibur VI
Street Fight V
Streets of Rage 4
Is 304GBs right there.
Then outside of steam
Batman Arkham Knight is 67GB
Battlefield V 88GB
Apex Legends 50GB
Remnant from the ashes 35GB
Starcraft 2 35GB
Call of Duty Modern Warefare 97GB
Predator Hunter Grounds 19GB
World War Z 40GB
431GB's
So about 735GB on my 2TB volume for games.
Obvs i took it with a pinch of salt, but it is probably still far below the numbers of old. I still have it installed, and subbed, i still play classic, not played regular since classic though My steam folder is over 1TB
My steam on M.2 SSD is 112GB, on the backup drive its 905GB, i also have 150-200GB of other games on the disk itself. so thats 1.1TB and my SSD has 200GB in use for games. so thats 1.3TB, if i would push it into the SSD itself. now the 2TB ssd is only 1.6TB in size so that means that i would only have 300GB left. so i would definately need more space for games.
I dont even play that much Triple AAA to begin with and i still have enough games installed to fill the SSD
Now with a normal game that is not modded you can uninstall it and install it again.although unless you have over 100mbs connection it will take a long time to download a big game like that.
With modded games it might take entire day to mod it back together so its better to keep thouse installed if you play them couple times a year.