As the title says. Please just briefly tell me your experience with Oblivion installed on an SSD harddisk: Did it make your game run smoother? Load faster? I'm especially interested to hear from folks who run a FCOM setup or otherwise heavily modded game.

I'm about to buy a SSD, not only because of Oblivion. But I reckon the file (textures etc.) loading/streaming should improve quite a bit and any loading stutter should diminish to a degree. Sidenote: I'm already using Stutter Remover, Pyffie-fication etc. and my game doesn't stutter that much. I'm quite happy as is, I'm just thinking that an SSD might give it another little notch of improvement?

Maybe I should mention that I still have WinXP 32-bit on my Oblivion PC, and I don't really want to go to Win7 on this one.

I understand there is some TRIM function in Win7 which is good to have if you have a SSD. So I'm wondering if an SSD under WinXP is suffering any performance degradation over time? I admit I am not really well educated on this SSD thing. Please kindly bear with me.

Thanks so much for your comments and insights.

I installed it to my 60GB OCZ Vertex last year when I got it, and I really didnt see a huge difference then when I had it installed to my 300GB Velociraptor. (Fallout 3 there is a huge improvement). But I ran FCOM for a while on there, I did notice a slight increase in performance, I didnt think it was worth keeping it on the drive taking up space.

... and that was already with Win 7 64-bit as your OS or XP still at that time?

Somewhat sobering report... I expected a little more positive endorsemant...

I used Windows 7. It was installed on another partition of the drive.

Well I'm going to have to disagree. I noticed a pretty significant decrease of load times and definitely the amount of time taken after a load for the game to really kick in. It wasn't necessarily mind-shatteringly faster, but to me it was definitely noticeable and definitely worth it, especially if you're running mass amounts of mods. And I'm also running Win7 64x.

Appreciate your feedback! Thanks :thumbsup: