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NoOne · 03-23-2016, 04:23 PM

i just moved ootp 17 to the mechanical drive.

1 year took ~8mins on SSD and on the mechanical it took ~25-27mins

there is a ton of loading data into/out of ram it seems, so SSD makes a huge difference with this particular game. i let a sim run last night, and it did a ton of host writes.

that's actually why i moved it to the hdd. i think i burned through 100gb of host writes from 40-some years of simming.

for reference:
3rd gen i7 4core / 8ht - think it was faster with hyperthreading turned off. this chip is 5-6 years on the market.. junk, really.

no awards / asg, no bb cards or asthetics. anything that saves sim time but does not influence the game in anyway is turned off. except owner goals turned off. no human managers.

as you can see in the massive time difference, the cpu is not the bottleneck.

a more recent I5 is plenty for the computations involved in this game.. spend the money on SSD > CPU if that is the choice. a dedicated video card is always the way to go too - even if it's a low-end gpu.

find some online reviews of i5 and i7 chips on the market, compare differences, and google terms you don't know.

03-23-2016, 04:23 PM	#12
NoOne Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,259 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	i just moved ootp 17 to the mechanical drive. 1 year took ~8mins on SSD and on the mechanical it took ~25-27mins there is a ton of loading data into/out of ram it seems, so SSD makes a huge difference with this particular game. i let a sim run last night, and it did a ton of host writes. that's actually why i moved it to the hdd. i think i burned through 100gb of host writes from 40-some years of simming. for reference: 3rd gen i7 4core / 8ht - think it was faster with hyperthreading turned off. this chip is 5-6 years on the market.. junk, really. no awards / asg, no bb cards or asthetics. anything that saves sim time but does not influence the game in anyway is turned off. except owner goals turned off. no human managers. as you can see in the massive time difference, the cpu is not the bottleneck. a more recent I5 is plenty for the computations involved in this game.. spend the money on SSD > CPU if that is the choice. a dedicated video card is always the way to go too - even if it's a low-end gpu. find some online reviews of i5 and i7 chips on the market, compare differences, and google terms you don't know. Last edited by NoOne; 03-23-2016 at 04:32 PM.