k. hope that not having active sub won’t screw me. xd but
I was thinking about getting an ssd, given it is supposed to run the game faster (and my dear sister won’t let me test that on her laptop)… but don’t really want to waste plently of money on a thing that may fail.
however, for some odd reason, mine has a SD port - and microSD-s are android tech afrer all
should i try to install WoW on one, or it isn’t really worth the bother? and how much space would i need in the bfa era?
In short: no. Forget it. Just get SSD.
Longer: MicroSDs and SSDs are meant for entirely different uses even though both are based on flash memory. There are some relatively fast MicroSD cards but it is very unlikely old laptop integrated SD-reader supports them and even the fastest MicroSD cards are slow compared to SSDs.
SD cards (MicroSD is just basically smaller SD card) were originally designed for portable devices, cameras, music players and the like. Their real world performance is relatively poor, especially in random read or writes which would be most common with games like WoW.
A basic SSD like Crucial MX500 would be cheaper and faster than the fastest similar sized SD-card.
kk ic, thennn
can i use usb-sata cable to connect a ssd with the computer? (3.1)
also, does it actually affect fps beside loading screens? because, i know there is something wrong with my computer even after n visits to a technician… given i am using it as a heater in the winter, or the unusual for a fan noise it makes until i overwhelm it with games… the system interrupts taking at least 10% of the cpu, the whole time… etc ;d
my specs are perfectly fine for wow else (950m, 4gb vid, i7 2.7k cpu, 8gb ram and 600 gb free disc space), also tried setting everything in-g & from the video card setting to max performace yet didn’t help a bit '-.-
external drives should work if you have USB3, so long as you get a reliable cable and keep it secure (not because the drive should not be moved, but to stop the cable bending and posably breaking)
but they removed the SSD as a requirement to play shadowlands yesterday or so. check the SSD threads on the general forum waves from those threads lol
also. you can post while unsubbed / out of timecard time here on the tech forum, but not the other ones. as i found out myself lol
Not really, especially if just the game is on SSD. Zoning into new zones might be smoother especially if it’s a zone like Suramar which has lots of objects etc. If entire operating system is on SSD then any small things Windows or other programs might do on background would potentially be done quicker.
One big advantage with SSD (if operating system is installed on it) is that any time program needs to load a system file (and they do it often) it gets loaded quicker, too.
Sounds like overheating. Especially cheaper laptops tend to have poor ventilation causing all sorts of issues though it is not fully limited to just cheap ones.
System interrupts usage is generally caused by external devices though troubleshooting potential issues can be annoying, especially on laptop where removing many of extra devices is not really possible.
I would start by removing all external devices (keyboards, screens etc), make sure all drivers are updated, check if there are any weird errors in Windows’ event viewer etc.
If you run on HDD you probably noticed stuff not loading immediately in places like Dalaran (Broken Isles). It’s not an issue with an SSD.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to also have your windows on an ssd.
Any background process that accesses the hdd might cause a stutter ingame, not if the OS is on the ssd.
Oh, I know. Thats why I need to save for a new machine, and not just stick a spare ssd in.
My mainboard too or to boot from the ssd directly.
Plus its getting to that age it needs retiring to downstairs and the sims games for me lol.
Got island adventures, but the current one can’t run it if installed. Its a bloomin miracle it ran on a dual core with a 210 and 3gig ram, tho sticking with XP probly helped lol.
That seems unlikely as many of the SSDs are normal SATA disks which has been used since 2000s or so. The only real requirement is AHCI support which has been present since 2011 as well. What computer you have exactly? Though certainly if the computer is XP-era or older then upgrade might be the wisest action.
She’s a self build, 8 years old now. An AMD 8 core CPU and was originally built with 8gig ram and a nvidia 550 Ti.
Replaced the 550Ti about 4years ago with my fiancé’s old 660 (which started to die last month, got a different 660 from my old boss, it was spare parts from a trade in, fans didn’t run but I fixed that lol)
I talked to him today, told him he should offer RAID ready prebuild shadowlands desktops lol. Make sure they come pre loaded with BFA so all ya have to do is log in, patch and pay/install lol. We looked at the recommended (he didn’t like that gfx card tho, so we picked a newer better one) and by the end, it was close to a grand.
I said to keep the specs, put up a sign in the window with “enquire within” in case anyone in my area wants to get a new system for Shadowlands.
He didn’t ever know it was coming lmao, hence me telling him to get the reccomendeds down (which I wrote down on paper for him…which knowing him, he will use-loose ect)
Still. He can’t say I didn’t give him heads up and time to order parts lol.
But I’m still gona have to save. Lucky for me, games are my only hobby.