[urrl78]

I have a 1.5 Ghz 17" with 4200 RPM drive. I copied the file folder from there to my 7200 RPM drive and it seems to play better with all the saved games and settings there automatically. Anyone else notice this?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by urrl78:
I have a 1.5 Ghz 17" with 4200 RPM drive. I copied the file folder from there to my 7200 RPM drive and it seems to play better with all the saved games and settings there automatically. Anyone else notice this?

Well, I would guess that loading levels and saved games would be faster, but I'd think that frame rates and the like would not change.

[Ryan Becker]

Makes sense to me. I keep all my games on a 7200rpm drive with 8mb cache.

Games don't just load things at the beginning of a map... they often load new objects and enemies in the middle of the game, so the faster the drive, the faster these will load, and the less likely that they will affect the frames per second.

Soldier Of Fortune II is a good example of how a game loading objects can affect gameplay... I could always tell when an enemy was coming, cause the game would slow down as it loaded the new objects.

-Ryan