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jg1234

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External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« on: May 11, 2018, 11:17:26 AM »

Hi Folks,

I am completely unfamiliar with solid state hard drives. I would like to buy an external (unless internal is faster) solid state hard drive and load IL2 BAT on it.

I would leave everything else, including my OS on the old SATA drive.

Would that have a measurable increase on the FPS I can expect with BAT?

I would also tweak my conf file and Nvidia Control Panel settings correctly first.

My specs are below:

CPU - Intel I5 Ivy Bridge 3470 - 3.4 GHZ
RAM - 8 GB DDR3
GPU - EVGA GTX 1050 TI 4GB GDDR5 ( Mine is the smaller size model with one cooling fan) 128 bit
OS - Windows 7 SP1
PSU - Antec 500 Watt

Thanks in advance for any advice or insight - jg1234
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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2018, 11:27:22 AM »

Are you talking about Solid State Hybrid Drive like Western Digital's WD BLUE SSHD series WD40E31X or WD10J31X ?

Or standard SSD (Solid State Drive) , like Intel SSD 540s series or Kingston SSDNow UV400, Samsung SSD 960 EVO ?
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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2018, 11:37:29 AM »

SSD - Solid State Drive.

Pardon the confusion. Thx.
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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2018, 11:57:49 AM »

I use a WD  1TB Ultra external SSD and it preforms very well on my pc. No problems to report.
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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2018, 12:05:37 PM »

Would that have a measurable increase on the FPS
The drive type in use and FPS are completely unrelated.

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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2018, 12:07:03 PM »

Il2 doesn't really benefit from being on SSD. Load time might be slightly faster, but performance overall will not improve. I have 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs. All of my Il2 installs are on one of the HDDs. I'd suggest that you save SSD space for more modern games that may be able to benefit from the load speed. (I have DCS, IL2 BoS, Aerofly FS2, FSW, and a few more all on the SSDs.)

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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2018, 12:10:36 PM »

Thank you SAS~Storebror and Cloyd,

That's what I wondering so I appreciate you clearing that up for me. It looks like buying an SSD will not improve my FPS or performance for BAT.

My hardware should be strong enough so I will look for other ways to tweak performance.  Thanks in advance - jg1234
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Re: External Solid State HD and Il2 BAT Performance
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2018, 01:04:09 PM »

So, SSD doesn't affect game fps as Storebror and Cloyd says.
But it affects good about executing modded IL-2 1946 and loading missions.

Once I placed B.A.T. folder on internal SATA3 SSD , I cannot return to HDD. I cannot wait so long time in starting-up or loading.

Btw, also about loading time shorten, what connect interface is important.
Not few external connect interfaces have low speed .... sometimes less than HDD.
High speed ---- at least SSD's read / write speed is guaranteed ---- interface is necessary.
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