Does your HDD cause any stuttering in games?

[Steevo]

@Steevo - Lol, I agree. I'm supersensitive to both frame rate changes and any hitching/stutters no matter how minute in games. These are not what I consider game breaking stutters but sometimes I find myself looking for them rather than just cracking on with a decent gaming sesh.

I find it breaks my concentration and if it happens too much I have to stop and adjust settings as it pisses me off.

My mechanical drives sustain 200+ MBPS and 12ms of seek time in RAID, but thats nothing to around 800MBPS read and 400+ write on the SSD's and .1 or less seek time.

 

[scoutingwraith]

Which Alice are you talking about?

I think he is talking about the new one.... Alice:Madness Returns

 

[Drone]

I consider a stutter any sort of lag or jumpy gaming either while entering a large new area on a game, or due to lack of resources.

True and you never know was that a lack of resources or it's just game code that wasn't optimized or it was problems with windows compatibility . LoL and you start to run in circles download patches and new drivers, reboot your pc, run check disk and defragment, and even reinstall your game.



Btw unfortunately many old games don't work fine under windows 7 x64 and I never knew why there's compatibility option if in 99% it never helps.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I think he is talking about the new one.... Alice:Madness Returns

I was thinking that, just wanted to make sure.

 

[Steevo]

True and you never know was that a lack of resources or it's just game code that wasn't optimized or it was problems with windows compatibility . LoL and you start to run in circles download patches and new drivers, reboot your pc, run check disk and defragment, and even reinstall your game.



Btw unfortunately many old games don't work fine under windows 7 x64 and I never knew why there's compatibility option if in 99% it never helps.

page delta, I-O bytes per second, queue depth

You will know.

 

[arnoo1]

Nope
Corsair force 3 120gb FTW!!
Also no probs/stuttering with my WD Caviar Black 2tb

 

[Widjaja]

I do not recall any stutter in Alice:- Madness Returns.

I do recall the stutter in Batman in certain areas where, sections are getting loaded but I have not played it since using a Quad.

Skyrim does have some stutters initially smooth out while playing the game.
I have noticed stutters and load times have reduced a lot since using a quad core.

Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl was probably the biggest stutterer out of all games I have experiences.
I would even get 2-5 second pauses when coming up to certain areas.

I should try out some games since going from an old Athlon X2 to a Quad core.
I have been told my loading times in DiRT 3 have halved when playing in online multiplayer so to an extent I do believe the hard drive is not predominantly the issue in games.