This is why Alan Wake 2 devs say to use an SSD.

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  1. That thing looks more like a sasquatch than a human.

  2. Practical-Canary8782

    Why wouldn’t you anyways. Why do you need to be told lol. I havnt used a HDD in more than 10 years.

    Wow, lots of potato PC users here down voting. Have fun with that I guess.

  3. DifficultyVarious458

    same way uneducated people complained about cyberpunk or FF7R loading textures slowly while playing on 5400 or 7200rpm HDD. also old consoles.

  4. punkinabox

    If your using an HDD in 2023 for game storage you’re doing it wrong.

  5. UnevenTrashPanda

    If someone is doing any “serious” gaming on a PC in 2023, they will already have a SSD

  6. Level_Parfait_9663

    The era of the HDD is long over.

  7. Good_Nyborg

    You sure that’s not just the Chinese version?

  8. Yommination

    Only a dunce would game off an HDD in 2023

  9. Crisewep

    Everyone is shitting on HDDs in the comments but i still store old games and roms on my 2TB 7200rpm HDD.

    Play newer games on my 970 evo.

    HDDs still are perfectly fine for old games and ROMs.

  10. wisdomoftheages36

    Hdd should be relegated to storing old files at this point. No reason to run a game off of them anymore

  11. psionoblast

    I kinda want to play it on an HDD now cause it seems you get the OG RE4 regenerators that way.

  12. hughmaniac

    Is that the mutant that bursts into water in the XMen movies?

  13. Sanvirsingh

    Reading comments here how people are saying SSD are cheap and you shouldn’t game on HDD dude not everyone are living in America here in Europe atlest in my country there still kinda expensive -_-

  14. Sandwic_H

    Old /indie games always go on my 1 Tb Seagate Barracuda HDD

    New game, especially AAA? Goes on my Crucial P3.

  15. ThyBuffTaco

    I’m having issues in Alan’s sections with geometry not loading when switching scenes…..on an ssd

  16. CynicalCrow_

    I feel like Alan Wake gets a pass from the usual “lazy western devs” argument with how advanced everything seems to be. Difference between bad optimization and pushing tech forward

  17. LogicalAir

    That shit happens on ssd too. Well, maybe not this crazy but still

  18. pretty_tired_man

    But now you don’t have to look at his weiner

  19. Dr-False

    Oh no, they are having a horrific case of Nintendo64enitus! This truly is the horror game of all time

  20. Leopard1907

    Four days ago we swapped the old Hitachi 5400 RPM 1 TB hdd on my brothers laptop with Samsung 870 Evo 1 TB Sata 3 ssd ( that is an old laptop with 7th gen Intel and Pascal gpu ) since he was complaining that how launch of the games and loading screens were taking very long.

    He had one other issue with Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Audio sync issues on npc dialogs, repeated sounds, cut off sounds etc.

    Since moving to ssd all of those issues vanished.

    Maybe not exactly a fair comparison since that hdd was in use for 7 years and even when it was new it wasn’t a top performer but it really is necessary these days for anything a bit modern.

  21. Captobvious75

    If your PC is below console spec in anything- upgrade it for games like this.

  22. SSDs are at their cheapest point yet, who is even using HDDs anymore unless it’s a work computer 😂

  23. can’t wait to buy a new pc and finally get to experience a ssd for the first time not joking

  24. Puzzleheaded_Bend749

    for someone who used HDD basically his entire life, i WON’T GO BACK .

  25. __Becquerel

    Why does this object even have a LOD like that, does it get used in any other place?

  26. builder397

    At least their humans have LOD enabled, unlike a certain city builder.

  27. Effective-External50

    My HDD gets 500mbps. That’s Max for SATA anyway.

  28. Sylphietteisbestgirl

    Costco online has a Samsung 2tb ssd for less than $100. I picked up 2

  29. Pineappleman123456

    hdd works for me, 7200rpm runs everything so far for me including games like cyberpunk; I only have to wait a bit longer for menus and textures to load in, but once they do everything is fine; lots of cheap storage too

  30. johnyakuza0

    We can all agree that HDDs are for archiving and mass storage but every game should always be running on SSDs.

  31. iakobi_varr

    Looks like shitty optimization to me though

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