Is anyone running DCS on an SSD?

I have one arriving next week and am hoping it will speed things up a bit. Anyone got experience of this? Thanks for any feedback.:thumbup:

Sure, it makes a lot of a difference. Just hope that it has enough space for DCS and it's future...

I have one arriving next week and am hoping it will speed things up a bit. Anyone got experience of this? Thanks for any feedback.:thumbup:

Of course a SSD will not improve your gaming performance while dog fighting or something like that. A SSD will mainly decrease loading time and minimize loading stutters.

But its worth it anyway. You will see.

Thanks, it was what I was hoping. I have the same one as yours coming to try things out, and if it is as good as I'm being told I will upgrade my main HDD to a big SSD as well.

I recently got a 500G SSD for 2.x, and it made a huge difference in reducing stutters

I have one arriving next week and am hoping it will speed things up a bit. Anyone got experience of this? Thanks for any feedback.:thumbup:

I've got a medium end PC (edit: med-low for brand new ones nowadays :lol:), since it's a few years old. I used to get stutters when loading in and deploying the mirrors or looking around when i spawned in. Checked my old HDD; clocking 100% RPM. Ever since i got my (gaming)SSD no more of that :)

And like the other guys said, it mostly helps on loading, which is worth it for me, I spend a lot of time messing about in the editor and testing missions/triggers, so an SSD helps me a ton.

Thanks, it was what I was hoping. I have the same one as yours coming to try things out, and if it is as good as I'm being told I will upgrade my main HDD to a big SSD as well.

Go for it.

SSD makes a huge difference in game loading times, and Windows loading and speed as well. Well worth it imho.

I have two - one for all my games, the other for Windows and other programs. I have a large HDD to keep my pictures, video, and data on.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have to wait until Tuesday for it to arrive. Quite excited as to how it will improve load times. :thumbup:

Load times are bigger than they should be because the game loads a lot of stuff it doesn't need in a simple session.

Also there's some overhead lost time due to load things that don't exist (moved, deleted)

But in practise with a proper solution it wouldn't be such a bigger decrease, because there's some things that should be loaded but are not.

SSDs are worth it, just in general. I keep a 2TB mechanical drive, in each of my desktop machines, just for local data storage while the other drives are all SSDs. My laptops are all SSD only. The only place I still use mechanical drives, exclusively, is in my NAS boxes (long term storage, backups and streaming media) for which they plenty fast enough.

I have one arriving next week and am hoping it will speed things up a bit. Anyone got experience of this? Thanks for any feedback.:thumbup:

Yes. I use only SSD on all my PCs. There is amazing improvement, typically in the range of 3 to 5 times (for file transactions) what you get with rotating storage (this may depend on some other factors too, such as total RAM). Once you have used SSD any other machine without it will have you feeling something is wrong it will be so slow. SSD will markedly improve your gaming/simulation experience, especially if you are a bit short on RAM and the system has to do a lot of paging.

I have 5 things on my SSD: Windows, DCS World 1.5, DCS World 2.1, P3D v3.4, and P3D v4. Even with a high-ish end rig (i7-7700K, GTX 1070) I was getting stutters. Installing my flight sims on the SSD eliminated them entirely. I think you'll be very pleased with your new purchase :)

Is anyone not running an SSD is a better question.

I run most of my steam games on a mechanical drive, which does just fine. DCS is the only game I have installed on it's own SSD. Windows and a few programs are also on an SSD (M.2 drive).

3 x SSD + 2 x HDD

SSDs for OS and all games and apps

HDDs for flics, vids and backup

A SSD will change the way you look at a PC, hands down.

Yes. I use only SSD on all my PCs. There is amazing improvement, typically in the range of 3 to 5 times (for file transactions) what you get with rotating storage (this may depend on some other factors too, such as total RAM). Once you have used SSD any other machine without it will have you feeling something is wrong it will be so slow. SSD will markedly improve your gaming/simulation experience, especially if you are a bit short on RAM and the system has to do a lot of paging.

There have been reviews about the performance of SSDs with 2, 4, 6 and 8GB RAM.

Bottom line was, up to 8GB the systems tested scaled in performance. Unfortunately they didnt check 16GB ( which is what you should have for DCS...or more imho ).