That's not to say that current and next generation SSD's are not absolutely game changing. Take into account NWN is attached to a 15 year old frame and you begin to see why it does not seem to benefit from an SSD as much as say. Heck, most games are designed and optimized to run on a consoles 5200 rpm hard drive.

Storage technology is advancing faster than video games ability to utilize that blisteringly fast speed. No matter how much they flop around they will never take advantage of all the room you have given them. It's like putting a 2 month old baby in a king size bed. While the video focuses on 3,500 MB/s drives vs 540 MB/s the principle is the same as is the amount of data the game is using while in motion. I don't know about NWN:EE but I highly doubt you are getting any demonstrable effect by having your save data for most games on an SSD vs a mechanical drive. This is well within the average read/write speed of old 7200RPM mechanical hard drive. The Sims 4 peeks at 4MB/s read and <1MB/s average. Overwatch has a peek read speed of 20MB/s and an average of 1MB/s.

Large transfer of data is sped up significantly by SSD but average read speed are quite low once a game is up and running. In practice that's not actually how it works.ĭata read speed is bottlenecked by the game engine and not so much the hardware. The same seems to apply to other games that use the documents folder. I figured it's best if that stuff loads as quickly as possible. The Documents folder is where saves, overrides, haks and other player specific stuff goes. Is there any reason besides NWN EE that my Documents folder should be on my SSD? You seem to be saying moving the Documents folder to the D drive was a bad thing?

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