Originally Posted by Blackheifer
Originally Posted by AusarViled
A SSD versus HD wont make that much of a difference for this game outside of loading times, this is not a game that is a shooter or a platformer [assuming your having a modern HD and not one of those HP Pavilions from 10 years ago, at 3200 rpm- if you do your going to have a very very bad time.] Games mostly store calls in memory, as long as you have 16GB of Ram you should be fine ... if not try to reduce page file limit in your system. DO NOT EVER INCREASE PAGE FILE LIMIT ON A HD, YOU WILL REGRET IT LOL.

This is not good info.

1. They literally state in the MINIMUM specs that you need an SSD.
2. It absolutely makes a huge difference having an SSD versus a regular hard drive - the "pipe" for an SSD is much larger and faster than for an a regular HD.
3. In the event of the system needing to create a swap file - which is a 100% chance with Bg3 - an SSD Swap file will wildly outperform a HD Swap file. The HD swap file may actually crash the system.

Also, if you have not played the full game or helped to make it why would you give advice against what the developers recommend?

Minimum specs does not mean it won't run on a HD, it just means you will have a miserable time as your performance won't run to the level where the devs consider the game enjoyable. This specific borderline will vary from developer to developer, as an example ubisoft for example, minimum requirements are for playing the game at 10fps it seems as you need way higher then they require.

HD vs SSD only changes load times, I done research and I not seen a single example where a game would hard not work because it was on a HD over an ssd. Albeit being on a ssd will improve performance from 30-100% load times on games.