That was Alan Wake 2 for me, except they innovated one step further. I had to reinstall it on my NVME drive because my SATA SSD apparently wasn’t fast enough.
That’s excessive that it requires an NVMe drive to work at all. It’s a tech that’s really only about a decade old and plenty of people keep dinosaurs much older than a decade running and even game on them. Heck my SATA SSD which predates NVME is still my primary game storage device and it shows no signs of failing anytime soon. Fun fact, my Z97 motherboard was one of the first on the market to include NVME m.2 slots but did not support booting to PCIe slots, so neither those newfangled PCIe SSDs nor newfangled NVME drives could be booted, but it did have NVME support enabled as a later BIOS update!
On the other hand, I suppose we are approaching Windows 10 EOL in less than 2 years, and Windows 11 technically does not support CPU generations old enough to not include NVME support so that does make it a safer bet, but still not a great thing to require
To be fair, that’s on them for not giving the option of allowing PC players to play with low res textures. The game uses 2048 for them, you can download a mod that uses them at either 256 or 512, for instance. Blocky and muddy, but that’d save fuckloads of space and load times.
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That was Alan Wake 2 for me, except they innovated one step further. I had to reinstall it on my NVME drive because my SATA SSD apparently wasn’t fast enough.
That’s excessive that it requires an NVMe drive to work at all. It’s a tech that’s really only about a decade old and plenty of people keep dinosaurs much older than a decade running and even game on them. Heck my SATA SSD which predates NVME is still my primary game storage device and it shows no signs of failing anytime soon. Fun fact, my Z97 motherboard was one of the first on the market to include NVME m.2 slots but did not support booting to PCIe slots, so neither those newfangled PCIe SSDs nor newfangled NVME drives could be booted, but it did have NVME support enabled as a later BIOS update!
On the other hand, I suppose we are approaching Windows 10 EOL in less than 2 years, and Windows 11 technically does not support CPU generations old enough to not include NVME support so that does make it a safer bet, but still not a great thing to require
It’s in the system requirements but even games that list an SSD as required there still sometimes work fine on a hard disk.
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To be fair, that’s on them for not giving the option of allowing PC players to play with low res textures. The game uses 2048 for them, you can download a mod that uses them at either 256 or 512, for instance. Blocky and muddy, but that’d save fuckloads of space and load times.