slade357

I have an SSD and an HDD. There’s not room on my SSD for games.

That is simply not true. If hdds were outdated 7 years ago I would have had problems 7 years ago. This is the only game out of the hundreds I have that doesn’t work on an HDD. Elden Ring, EFT, Baldurs Gate, Call of Duty, Hogwarts Legacy, hell even Star Citizen works fine on an HDD and that game is massively unoptimized. Having it on its minimum specs isn’t an excuse. If it was just a case of load times being bad and assets loading in slowly then yeah sure, they did their best and it’s a better experience on an ssd. That’s not the case though, talking to anyone, fighting, opening an inventory, just walking, all of these cause a 5 to 30 seconds freeze and the audio is constantly cutting out. There’s no excuse for that and this is unique to starfield. I am making room on my SSD to play it because I still want to try the game but claiming I’m the unreasonable one for voicing a problem is absurd.

I could also say that a 1-2 tb hard drive isn’t relevant on modern systems anymore. The price difference between a 4tb SSD and HDD is 2-3x the price.

The fact that the game is unplayable on an HDD is really upsetting. That’s it, I can’t form an opinion on the rest because the stuttering is so bad that I cannot play it.

I’ve gotten a lot of replies to this and I don’t really care to argue. I know SSDs are better for loading assets. Tech is my job. I understand that. I do not agree that HDDs are deprecated. Y’all are really angry about this and should take a few steps back.