Hi all
Does a fast drive affect way point speed or just game joining or what ?
The primary aspect of the game that storage performance affects is the loading times.
All facets of your system affect loading times… But primarily your storage type, RAM capacity and in some cases your graphics cards memory capacity all have some effect on the loading performance of all games.
The loading times are determined mainly by two factors: How much data there is to load, and how heavily compressed it is, which compression depends on your processors performance.
You will see that the “hooded figure at the doors” loading screen is most common when switching acts, this is because the game has to load the different Resurrected art assets when switching acts. If you have significant loading times between acts and to avoid dying due to circumstances beyond your immediate control, it’s highly recommended to waypoint to the town of the act you’re switching to first, then waypoint to where you want to go in that act.
Gaming on any rotational drive is not recommended these days. Solid-state drives are the way to go.
As time goes on and computers get significantly faster than they are now, the average computer system will likely reach the point again where the hooded figure at the doors is barely noticed, just like in the original game now on modern systems.
I wonder how many FPS Doom 2 gets on a quantum computer… 
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If you have a Stata III SSD connected to a SATA III port for your system drive, this should be quite enaugh. I personally recommend a 3x port setup in case you still rely on SATA III drive:
- 1st SATA drive for the system, should be quite big, as certain programs can’t be instaled elsewhere for example your internet browser or other software.
-2nd SATA Drive this one doesn’t nessecarily be very big, as a matter of fact a 128GB Drive will be enaugh, for this it’s the drive’s random read and write speeds is what needs to be fast ( most producers just state IOPS here, which is not enaugh, you need to know this value in MB/s. You’ll notice it’s quite worse than general sequential read/write speed. but it needs to be as fast as possible). You put your pagefile.sys file in here, so it doesn’t block throughput on SATA III port, interfering with windows operation or game’s data throughout, hence why it should be put on a separate port ( not a second volume on the same drive but a separate physical drive).
-3rd SATA Port You need to have a big and generally fast drive for game installing and playing.
Lastly use Ladik’s CASC viewer to unpack game’s data that is packed in CASC repository in your game folder, to unpack the game data to the game’s folder. Launch with
-data -txt as parameters in order to play the game. the game should react signifciantly faster. Check out Mr.Llama’s youtube video on this matter.
anyways if You have NVMe m.2 drive the above is practicaly obsolete for you, as the drive is fast enaugh to play the game fast enaugh.
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I typoed. I meant to say town portals not way points. TY for you’re response
Do you think this will help much for online with 2 instances and if so what drive setup do you recommend as for running 2 instances per a NVMe m.2 or a NVMe m.2 per an instance ?
I want to run 4 instances of d2r. Should I have a NVMe m.2 drive for each instance ? And should I upgrade from a pci gen 3 ?
Keep in mind it fairly taxing to operate 2 afk and a instance in each hand(a moues in left hand and a mouse in right hand at same time)
I have been abele to do this with several other games and it is so fun to test and train my dexterity. >_<
So loading is very critical to making death easy.