I installed on a regular (SATA) SSD and am wondering if I would be significantly better off using a NVME? I’m got a Samsung 980 Pro that I could probably use.
I would appreciate faster game loading times, though I watched a video that showed no difference between loading time for SATA SSD vs NVME. I’d also appreciate faster FPS and less stutter (I might have the occasional stutter).
Setup: Ryzen 5800x. Radeon 6700xt. 32 GB ram. 1920*1080 on a 60 hz monitor (might upgrade).
The short answer is Yes! NVME is significantly better.
Guess you will get a better performance. Had my sim installed on a 500gb 970evo pci3 which was 80% filled.
So I bought a 1tb 980pro pci4, switched the sim to that nvme and left the Rolling Cache on the old one.
I guess it’s a little more smoothness compared to my previous configuration. So I would believe that a change from a SATA SSD to a nvme SSD will be an advantage as well
6 second gain in load time (still takes 2 minutes). Maybe a 0-2 change in FPS.
If I do go with the NVME, what’s the best way to do it? Should I reinstall?
And I’m not convinced this is worth it - sure in theory it should be a lot better, but the reviews I’m seeing on this are very mixed. For instance during loading, nothing on my computer is anywhere close to 100% - the cpu, gpu, disk, and network do not appear to be limiting factors in load time. My disk is at 1%, cpu at 10%-15% (with no thread over 50%), and gpu at 20-35%.
I thought i could copy all that stuff from one to the other but it only worked out with my steam games. So i had to reinstall the sim.
I don’t think it’s worth it. The only advantage would be reduced loading times, and possibly reduced stuttering. Any gain in FPS is likely well within the error window, as disk usage is never bottleneck during actual gameplay.
If you did want to move the data to the NVME, I was under the impression you can move your main folder and change the reference file location in the very bottom of the UserCfg file. There’s several posts on the forums you can search.
Example:
InstalledPackagesPath “D:\Games\MSFS”
I have two nvme cards on my rig, one being 1tb the other 500gb plus 1tb ssd sata which holds my OS the 1tb nvme has msfs on it and the 500gb has miscellaneous and FSX on it
My findings are that load times are pretty much the same , but I don’t get stutters etc
Another thing is cooling, if you block your case with multiple ssd’s it will disrupt your from fan cooling
Alternatively get a 2tb ssd and have done with it
Depends on your set up but the difference between sata ssd and nvme imho is not massive, it’s better but not really noticeable to give you a wow factor
Just my 2 cents
When I updated my system a few months back I decided to opt to getting a 500Gb NVMe drive for the OS and a couple of 1TB NVMe drives, one for MSFS and XP11 and the other really for games in general. I also have a couple of SSDs - not at my PC but one has P3D on it I believe and the other is currently empty. I also have another 2TB hybrid drive which is really there for files etc.
I used have P3D on a hybrid drive and as you can imagine it now loads up a flight noticeably quicker. I believe I had XP11 on a SSD before, I think it may load slightly quicker now it’s on a NVMe but it is no where near as noticeable as going from a hybrid to SSD.
My thought process was really to lessen the potential for reading files from a drive as being a possible factor with respect to stutters. As I had also upgraded from a 6700k to a 10900k with faster memory I would say it unlikely I could know if the difference between SSD and NvMe really provides any significant boost in this respect.
If I am honest I suspect there are a whole host of other limiting factors that will more likely cause stutters than the potential benefits of NvMe over SSD might actually provide. Just an opinion though, nothing to offer with regards to numbers!
I’m guessing that with the CPU you list the motherboard has available slots for nvme ssd’s?
One thing worth checking is whether those slots share any pcie or impact something else. (My motherboard has 3 locations available for pcie nvme but 1 of them would cut bandwidth to other components)
Other than that…yes. it’s a solid upgrade.
I have 2. OS installed on one. Fast games on the other.
I have tested both multiple times you may gain 2-3 secs with the nvme…no matter the drive speed the software is still limited…save your money!
I upgraded a 8600K 6 Cores, 6 Threads with a 9900K 8 Cores, 16 Threads, that are about the same speed, overclock 4.8 vs turbo clock 5.0
and the loading and menus are a Lot smoother now, who knew …
While the benchmarks of an NVME drive show a massively significant speed increase, in actuality most pieces of software - the actual performance improvement is almost imperceptible.
Is the extra $100+ for a faster drive worth the few extra seconds? IMO no.
Unless you’re wanting to move your system storage from SATA-type storage to NVME for your entire rig, I wouldn’t bother.
I use a 1TB NVME for my Windows installation and at $250, it was the first time I felt like I wasted my money on a PC component, compared to the 1TB SATA SSD I now use exclusively for game installs.
At least there’s less cable management 