wolfie_24

Hi Gordon: In (a very late) answer to your question, I'll tell you that I have 3 types of drives in my computer: HDD, SSD, and NVME. Like you, I use the HDD to store documents and programs that do not need high speed, such as a word processor for example and occasional use programs. The different types of disc coexist without problems and the speed difference becomes more noticeable depending on the use that we are going to give it. You could compare the three models, and in the order I told you, like a motorcycle, a sports car, and a jet plane. For example, and just as an example, installing Windows 10 in full (including any necessary reboots) on a 1TB Kingston NVME connected to the main M2 port (PCI-e 4.0) took me 6 minutes and 15 seconds, which gives an idea of how fast they are. However, not all computers have PCI-e 4 (only some of the current motherboards for AMD) with a speed of 16 GB / S, while the PCI-e 3.0 (second M2 port) has a speed of 8 GB / S; That is, twice the (theoretical) speed for the same disk model in both cases. The SATA 3 ports have theoretical transfer speeds of 6GB / s and it is recommended for SSDs although they will not take full advantage. Regardless of this, the performance of a disk depends on other things, among which is the cache and access time. One thing is an electromechanical disk (HDD) and another is a solid state disk (more comparable to a RAM memory in its operation). Returning to the topic that originates your question, I noticed a difference during the game between the use of HDD and SSD. I have changed equipment a few days ago and I am still downloading the FS2020 so I cannot say yet if there is a (noticeable) difference between SSD and NVME, but I think there is, although it will be more difficult for me to be objective because I did not only change the disks. A possible solution is to place the rolling cache and temporary files in a virtual memory that acts as a solid state disk, depending on where you live, it may be cheaper to buy a good RAM than a cheap SSD. In that case, I recommend the ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver that you can download from the following link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ Maybe you can speed it up a bit with that trick. On the other hand, we know that FS2020 is a "next gen" game that demands a lot of bandwidth, storage, processor and video card. I've used an i7 4790K with 16G DDR3 RAM, a GForce 1070TI, and 2 1TB SSDs and didn't get more than 15-16 FPS. Overclocking the processor I have had many crashes and doing the same with the video card the same. The only solution was to overclock the VRAM (video card memory) while reducing its voltage (undervolting) and it has allowed me to go to about 20/25 FPS (always running everything in ultra for tests), you will find various tutorials on Youtube. They were not bad results considering that it was a team with more than 6 years, but this simulator puts any hardware with more than a couple of years to the limit. We will see if with the new equipment I achieve a notable improvement (Ryzen 7 5800X, 32G of RAM, ATI Radeon RX 6700 XT and the aforementioned disks), I will find out this week and I will gladly share my experience if required. Greetings from the South of Argentina!