Crysis 2 demands raid 0 ?

Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:24 am

i have this HD ST3250820SCE
I want to play crysis with that Hard disk and this config :

Radeon 6850
Phenom 955
Antec 520w
8 GB DDR3
Win7 64 bits

I need change HD or hd wont influent much in Frames per second ?

Will the HD not let me play at high settings? i mean... i buy all those parts for nothing ?
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Robert Bindley
 
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:14 am

HDD speed has no impact on frame-rate, it just loads the game quicker. Loading time has been greatly increased because of having to load the high resolution textures and possibly DX11 resources.
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:29 pm

Np, thanks for the help. Do u think i can run in what settings ? at 1280;1024
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:01 am

HDD speed has no impact on frame-rate, it just loads the game quicker. Loading time has been greatly increased because of having to load the high resolution textures and possibly DX11 resources.

Sorry bro, but you is wrong. Check out this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-gaming-performance,2991.html

It is about SSDs, but stay with me. The article points out that during gameplay tons of writes are made to the HDD. So if you were to have a RAID 0 configuration, that would increase your write mb/s, giving you a frame boost. How significant that frame boost is, is unknown to me, however.
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:18 am

U think that would make me lose more than 100 fps ???? i mean, will i have to play at low cuz i dont have a raid 0?
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:12 pm

no RAID is minimal at best. most of the writes during games are sequential operations so HDD shouldn't have an impact. I do have Crysis 2 installed on RAID 0 and to tell you the truth, can't really tell.
most of the performance while gaming depends on GPU, CPU, and RAM. (in order of priority)
you should be able to max the game out at extreme using that set up. beware do not set objects to ultra, that enables tessellation and incurs a HUGE performance hit on AMD cards.
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:44 am

OK, thanks man... i think i will have crysis 2 in some days .... ohh last question, i made this question at ea forum and they ignored me: Does crysis 2 come with multiplayer ? or i have to buy crysis wars or something like that ?
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:19 am

Crysis 2 comes with multiplayer...and it's a ton of fun..but it's different than your average shooter, so get ready for wonky stuff.
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Post » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:32 am

HDD speed has no impact on frame-rate, it just loads the game quicker. Loading time has been greatly increased because of having to load the high resolution textures and possibly DX11 resources.

Sorry bro, but you is wrong. Check out this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-gaming-performance,2991.html

It is about SSDs, but stay with me. The article points out that during gameplay tons of writes are made to the HDD. So if you were to have a RAID 0 configuration, that would increase your write mb/s, giving you a frame boost. How significant that frame boost is, is unknown to me, however.

That link doesn't disprove what I said and the HDD doesn't drive the graphics. The only effect it would have is if you ran out of memory and it paged the HDD, so a faster HDD would reduce stuttering.
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