On a Steam Deck, it is noticeable. Some blame the SD reader itself, which might not give the best speeds, but there’s a noticeable difference between a very expensive very fast SD, and the still faster internal storage. Load times on heavy games groom the SD can be… Long.
Oh, interesting! Is it just the initial load times, or is there noticeable lag? Because the former might be fine, but the latter would be a total motion sickness nightmare in VR
I mean, I’m talking on my experience on the Steam Deck, but I think it still might apply. Load times are slower in general. I reckon if a game streams assets on the fly heavily (a GTA-like game, a heavy open world game), that might put it to the test. But I haven’t had cases where it just struggles to keep the game flow because of storage streaming speed. It’s just…you feel it installing and handling big file chunks is a slower process in general.
On a Steam Deck, it is noticeable. Some blame the SD reader itself, which might not give the best speeds, but there’s a noticeable difference between a very expensive very fast SD, and the still faster internal storage. Load times on heavy games groom the SD can be… Long.
Oh, interesting! Is it just the initial load times, or is there noticeable lag? Because the former might be fine, but the latter would be a total motion sickness nightmare in VR
I mean, I’m talking on my experience on the Steam Deck, but I think it still might apply. Load times are slower in general. I reckon if a game streams assets on the fly heavily (a GTA-like game, a heavy open world game), that might put it to the test. But I haven’t had cases where it just struggles to keep the game flow because of storage streaming speed. It’s just…you feel it installing and handling big file chunks is a slower process in general.