GTA V and a 5200 rpm hdd

[juku80001]

I would like to know if a 5200 rpm HDD is good enough to run the game without lag spikes.
I have checked the "Resource Monitor" and saw that the maximum read time was 15 mb/s while playing the game. I am not sure if it is my GPU (amd hd 7670m 2gb) or the HDD that is running slow.

Thanks

 

[LostAlone]

Your hard drive won't effect in game performance at all. The only thing it can effect is the time taken to load a level (ie the black screen between hitting 'play' and the level loading up). Once you are in the game all the data is already loaded into RAM and your hard drive won't in any way effect what's going on. A slow 5200rpm HDD might give you long load times, but it won't interfere with your FPS.

 

[griffon9]

This is not true. SSD speed up loading time IN-GAME as well, so it is very helpful for open world games like Far Cry, GTA, and AC. I played AC unity on HDD and then on SSD, AC Unity's mission loading time and fast travel time is really bad on HDD and a good SSD cut it down A LOT.

 

[LostAlone]

This is not true. SSD speed up loading time IN-GAME as well, so it is very helpful for open world games like Far Cry, GTA, and AC. I played AC unity on HDD and then on SSD, AC Unity's mission loading time and fast travel time is really bad on HDD and a good SSD cut it down A LOT.

Did you even read what I said? I said exactly that hard drive speed effect load times but nothing else. And then you said I was wrong because it effects load times. Seriously dude, come on.

 

[juku80001]

Your hard drive won't effect in game performance at all. The only thing it can effect is the time taken to load a level (ie the black screen between hitting 'play' and the level loading up). Once you are in the game all the data is already loaded into RAM and your hard drive won't in any way effect what's going on. A slow 5200rpm HDD might give you long load times, but it won't interfere with your FPS.

This is not true. SSD speed up loading time IN-GAME as well, so it is very helpful for open world games like Far Cry, GTA, and AC. I played AC unity on HDD and then on SSD, AC Unity's mission loading time and fast travel time is really bad on HDD and a good SSD cut it down A LOT.

Did you even read what I said? I said exactly that hard drive speed effect load times but nothing else. And then you said I was wrong because it effects load times. Seriously dude, come on.

So is a 2.5" 5400 rpm HDD good enough or should i upgrade to 7200 rpm

 

[Sandstorm3000]

Your hard drive won't effect in game performance at all. The only thing it can effect is the time taken to load a level (ie the black screen between hitting 'play' and the level loading up). Once you are in the game all the data is already loaded into RAM and your hard drive won't in any way effect what's going on. A slow 5200rpm HDD might give you long load times, but it won't interfere with your FPS.

This is not true. SSD speed up loading time IN-GAME as well, so it is very helpful for open world games like Far Cry, GTA, and AC. I played AC unity on HDD and then on SSD, AC Unity's mission loading time and fast travel time is really bad on HDD and a good SSD cut it down A LOT.

Did you even read what I said? I said exactly that hard drive speed effect load times but nothing else. And then you said I was wrong because it effects load times. Seriously dude, come on.

So is a 2.5" 5400 rpm HDD good enough or should i upgrade to 7200 rpm

Good enough.. Lol

 

[juku80001]

Your hard drive won't effect in game performance at all. The only thing it can effect is the time taken to load a level (ie the black screen between hitting 'play' and the level loading up). Once you are in the game all the data is already loaded into RAM and your hard drive won't in any way effect what's going on. A slow 5200rpm HDD might give you long load times, but it won't interfere with your FPS.

This is not true. SSD speed up loading time IN-GAME as well, so it is very helpful for open world games like Far Cry, GTA, and AC. I played AC unity on HDD and then on SSD, AC Unity's mission loading time and fast travel time is really bad on HDD and a good SSD cut it down A LOT.

Did you even read what I said? I said exactly that hard drive speed effect load times but nothing else. And then you said I was wrong because it effects load times. Seriously dude, come on.

So is a 2.5" 5400 rpm HDD good enough or should i upgrade to 7200 rpm

Good enough.. Lol

I am asking this because when I drive around at faster speeds, i can see the hdd start blinking a lot faster than it normally does and I also think that the game starts to lag when the hdd starts loading things faster. I know that the hdd still loads things in when I play it.

 

[Alistair401]

Your hard drive won't effect in game performance at all. The only thing it can effect is the time taken to load a level (ie the black screen between hitting 'play' and the level loading up). Once you are in the game all the data is already loaded into RAM and your hard drive won't in any way effect what's going on. A slow 5200rpm HDD might give you long load times, but it won't interfere with your FPS.

This isn't true. In an open world game there's no way everything could be loaded into RAM. You think a 60GB game could be kept persistently in your RAM? When moving around, new parts of the world will be loaded into RAM and having a slow drive might mean that it takes a while for that data to be loaded. I'm currently using a 5200rpm drive and am experiencing texture pop-in issues (however it's possible that's due to something else).

EDIT: Confirmed it is indeed a hard drive issue. I'll be getting an SSD next week.

EDIT 2: Is it possible to double confirm? 😀 Anyway; having installed a new SSD and loading GTA onto it, all my previous issues of stutter and textures not load completely disappeared. I was using a 5200rpm drive but it was pretty old so it's possible that a newer 5200rpm drive might not have the same issues.