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greenmedic88 on 05 August 2008
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starcraft said:
greenmedic88 said:
I'll go back and finish Mass Effect. Elevator rides. That is all.

In general, any RPG with a lot of loads from section to section should benefit, although even on HDD, the load times are still going to be very far from "unnoticeable."

Texture pop ins should be somewhat reduced for GoW and GoW2 although I'd play the PC version to see how much of an improvement it will realistically be since it already plays off HDD.

The load times on those games in particular aren't noticeable thanks to the use of streaming textures, so there won't be much change if any, other than less pop in while the game is playing.

I've been thinking about those elavator rides.  I'm not sure they would be reduced.  They have dialogue and the elevator runs at a set speed.  Even though the game might be done loading, I wouldn't be surprised if it lets the elevator run it's course.

 

Just compare the PC version. That should be a pretty accurate depiction of what an install will do to load times. Maybe a few seconds difference at the most, which may or may not be enough of a reduction to cross the fine line between tolerable load time and annoying load time. I'm hoping it's the former.

With Mass Effect, some of the elevator rides had dialogue (might as well since it's just dead time otherwise), but most often, they were just a game mechanic used to mask load sequences with no bearing on plot. And it was definitely a game mechanic that was excessively used since the game was required to be designed around a "no install" build.