[SOLVED] Can ram make hdd better?

[South Jansen]

I have a 120gb m2 ssd and a 500 GB 7200rpm hdd. For all games i play its Ok to have them on the hdd. But for fortnite its unplayable. The game feels so laggy and it feels like everything is delayed. Its Aldo lagging but the frames is still high. Is it any way to make fortnite more smooth on the hdd. Can more ram increase hdd performance? Only got 8gb atm.

 

[Monkinator37]

Lagging with high frames is a wifi problem most of the time, have you tried disabling the replay recorder in Fortnite settings?

 

[South Jansen]

Lagging with high frames is a wifi problem most of the time, have you tried disabling the replay recorder in Fortnite settings?

Yes my wifi is all good, if i have fortnite on the ssd the game is super smooth. But on the hdd its laggy. Can ram make it better

 

[mdd1963]

500 GB SSDs such as the Crucial MX500 are ... $65 or so?

 

[South Jansen]

500 GB SSDs such as the Crucial MX500 are ... $65 or so?

Yes, but i dont have the money for it atm. But can more ram make the hdd work better for fortnite? If not what can?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, but i dont have the money for it atm. But can more ram make the hdd work better for fortnite? If not what can?

No.
RAM does not make the hard drive work better.

More RAM can potentially make the PC run better.

How full is your 120GB SSD?

 

[South Jansen]

No.
RAM does not make the hard drive work better.

More RAM can potentially make the PC run better.

How full is your 120GB SSD?

When i download fortnite on it i have 2 GB og free space, and i have deleted everything i can. Thats why i need to move it over to my hdd. But fortnite just feels so laggy on that disk. In game it feel unplayable. But other games like warzone and Rainbow is all good on the hdd.

 

[USAFRet]

2GB is FAR too little space.
That drive needs like 20GB free.

But....the hard drive has little to do with actual gameplay. Loading things from it...sure that's slower from an HDD than the SSD.
But most of the 'game' happens in RAM/CPU/GPU.

 

[popatim]

What else is installed on the SSD? Maybe you can move something else, like documents, downloads, videos, music...?

 

[South Jansen]

2GB is FAR too little space.
That drive needs like 20GB free.

But....the hard drive has little to do with actual gameplay. Loading things from it...sure that's slower from an HDD than the SSD.
But most of the 'game' happens in RAM/CPU/GPU.

Ok thanks for answers, ill first try more ram (only have 8gb).