Worth to buy SSD to stop the Diablo lag?, Or just buy a 16gb thumb drive?
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 Aug 29 2012, 10:35 PM, updated 14y ago
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I'm getting annoyed with the stuttering when playing Diablo III. Any significant improvement when using SSD?
SSD is a huge investment, but I read there is a trick to use thumb drive to cache certain data so the game will perform better. Which is a better solution? |
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Aug 29 2012, 10:39 PM
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diablo wont lag, even on WD green.
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Aug 29 2012, 10:45 PM
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Lag like hell on mine. I don't mean in 'ping' lag. Got my DH killed many time early on the game because of that problem.
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Aug 29 2012, 10:47 PM
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ur rig spec?
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Aug 29 2012, 10:51 PM
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C2Quad 9550, Nvidia GTX 460 @ 1.5GB, 4GB RAM, Win7 64bit.
HDD1: WD Green 1TB HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 750GB |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:52 AM
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nahh..unless ur HDD already lag like hell even without running diablo, then u should change.
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Aug 30 2012, 01:26 AM
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Using an SSD, solves all initial lag problem. Boot up to Windows within seconds, starts diablo, makes game, load map and all really quick. Loving it.
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Aug 30 2012, 09:12 AM
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im using SSD, sometime still lag die due to wireless unstable. Load the game from thumb drive might help.
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Aug 30 2012, 09:59 AM
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QUOTE(JiauBoy @ Aug 30 2012, 09:12 AM) im using SSD, sometime still lag die due to wireless unstable. Load the game from thumb drive might help. Yes I read about that but you would need a good high transfer rate thumb drive to improve performance? Again after last night gaming session the lag still get me killed and lost 3000 gold for nothing! |
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Aug 30 2012, 10:05 AM
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Your Diablo on WD Green or Barracuda ?
Try put it in Barracuda, Green have slower rotation speed. |
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Aug 30 2012, 10:11 AM
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QUOTE(WhatMan @ Aug 29 2012, 10:35 PM) I'm getting annoyed with the stuttering when playing Diablo III. Any significant improvement when using SSD? I just changed to SSD few days ago, yes the loading is faster but i dont have the "lag" you mention even before on normal HDD.SSD is a huge investment, but I read there is a trick to use thumb drive to cache certain data so the game will perform better. Which is a better solution? I am not sure, but loading D3 to thumbdrive but your OS still on the HDD maybe wont get u the best effect. Why not just load everything (OS, games, application) into the thumb drive ? and only those data like (mp3, movies) on your HDD. So ur PC wont read from your HDD at all unless you access those movies. But SSD still faster than thumb drive QUOTE ‘Flash Drives’ are a generic term which used for anything from USB memory sticks to SSDs. An USB flash drive uses lower quality low performance NAND flash with just 1 or 2 channels. Its durable, cheap but slow. An SSD on the other hand uses high performance NAND with mutliple channels. ( 12 or 8 is not uncommon), and there is a memory controller on a SSD which is much better and both can store data even if its not powered. Flash drives (USB) are slow storage devices where as SSDs are high performance drives. They’re much faster than normal HDDs. A USB flash drive uses USB, which is generally a slower interface than the Serial ATA interface. A USB flash drive is generally thought of as a removable device by the OS and is managed as such. A SSD is treated similarly to a hard drive, and is often recognized by your OS as a type of fixed disk. source |
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Aug 30 2012, 10:40 AM
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QUOTE(tanghm @ Aug 30 2012, 10:05 AM) Your Diablo on WD Green or Barracuda ? The barracuda have less space and it would be a pain to swap data between the 2 HDD. Plus, the Barracuda is close to 4 years so I expect it to not last any longer and I use it to store less critical data. I might use the WD Green to be a storage HDD.Try put it in Barracuda, Green have slower rotation speed. Anyone here uses Crucial M4 120GB? Got performance increase with DIII (in terms of stuttering). |
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Aug 30 2012, 10:43 AM
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This is posted pretty recently,
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5167898030 Try his method of troubleshooting, start off with antivirus. |
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Aug 30 2012, 10:52 AM
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I'd definitely recommend the SSD upgrade if you have extra cash to spend
, I was using my Samsung 1TB 7200rpm , each time i enter the game , i need to play for a few minutes before it loads some stuff to be smooth . Now with my Crucial M4 128gb, no problems! . In fact, it feels so much more responsive to me . Maybe its placebo  Not only diablo improves of course, battlefield 3 and other huge games too |
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Aug 30 2012, 11:00 AM
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QUOTE(tanghm @ Aug 30 2012, 10:43 AM) This is posted pretty recently, I guess I could try to disable Microsoft Security Essentials and see what happens later tonight. I'm running MS Essential & Avira AV.http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5167898030 Try his method of troubleshooting, start off with antivirus. |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:04 PM
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tarak kaitan SSD / HDD
haha but i run on SSD old pc run on HDD both lag cuz of network |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:16 PM
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QUOTE(nelienuxe_sara @ Aug 30 2012, 12:04 PM) tarak kaitan SSD / HDD ada kaitan...haha but i run on SSD old pc run on HDD both lag cuz of network when you jump new area, or startup D3, sure got startup lag with ssd, this initial lag no more |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:23 PM
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erm sorry kinda offtopic question.
so say i buy the ssd, and install windows on the ssd, do i have to install d3 on the ssd too or other hdisk oso can? |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:46 PM
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QUOTE(Prothero @ Aug 30 2012, 12:23 PM) erm sorry kinda offtopic question. both also ssdso say i buy the ssd, and install windows on the ssd, do i have to install d3 on the ssd too or other hdisk oso can? |
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Aug 30 2012, 12:49 PM
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wow so hardcoreeeeeee lol
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