hdd or ssd

[jayrc]

i've got a 500 gb western digital 7200 rpm 16mb cache hdd, my problem is that i get a very slight stutter when looking at a new area of the map, could it be my hard drive isn't good enough, should i get an ssd and would that eliminate that slight stutter that's bugging me. stutter seems to go away when not running perfect landscape, from what i read ssd's only help initial load times but i would think a ssd would fix this, what do you think?

[MaxGunz]

HD is slower sub-system than SSD but both are far slower than a ram drive.

[IceFire]

SSD's are still expensive but I bought a 60GB Mushkin Callisto II and it is incredible how much faster your system is. Still it depends on how much you want to devote of that drive to one game. I prioritized my productivity software and the operating system on the SSD and bought a 1TB WD Caviar Black for my gaming stuff.

[jayrc]

do you notice any loading stutters like when you look around? do you think my hdd could be doing this?

[IceFire]

Stuttering when you're looking around is not likely to be the hard drive... I would suspect the video card or maybe slow RAM before hard drive. The game should be largely loaded into memory while your playing it with a few things perhaps loading in the background.

[jayrc]

probably the video card then, i think my ram is pretty fast, i'll have to play with some more settings i guess, thank you

[MaxGunz]

You've got 8G of RAM. The stock game should be able to completely load and run in half that, no? Buuuuut then there's the mega-load mod pack, of course....