Performance Game load times

Performance Game load times

Here at Guru3D.com the audience is catered to gamers. And as such I like to start off with three real world performance game tests for a change.

We take the Alien Versus Predator benchmark and run it four times. From the moment we click on the icon and load up the game to the moment the benchmark start to run is what we are looking at for load time in seconds. After each run we restart the system so we make sure nothing resides in system memory.

The first run has caching off, the second has caching on on and the minute the data is cached we can see a nice improvement in overall game load time. For RUN 3 we shaved off eight seconds opposed to the regular HDD. Though in all fairness we do need to mention that the 5400RPM drive OCZ uses is below par compared to modern age 7200 RPM HDDs.

For our second title we take Crysis 2.  From the moment we click on the desktop icon and load up the game to the moment we see the Crysis menu is what we are looking at for load time in seconds. After each run we restart the system so we make sure nothing resides in system memory.

Again, The first run has caching off, the second has caching on on and the minute the data is cached we can see a nice improvement in overall game load time. For RUN 3 we shaved off twenty seconds opposed to loading the game from the HDD.

For the 3rd test we again take Crysis 2. We now look at level load time and run it four consecutive times with rebooting the system after each run. So this is selecting a level, click on it and start the stopwatch. Then we halt the stopwatch once the game level has started. That's saving 27 seconds from HDD towards cached SSD load. That is impressive.

Mind you though, at first run the games is not cached yet, the performance differential remains close to NIL.