GT6 Load times - SSD card necessary?

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Filip_Ovik
Hi all!

I wonder if GT6 has as slow load times as GT5, I was very close to buy a ssd card just to improve GT5 load times but I didn't. If the load times is similar to GT5, do you have any tips of good SSD cards? I'm not so good at these things so any help is appreciated!

Filip
 
I read that they're much less than GT5s loading.

I'd wait to see for myself or ask in one of the threads where people have the game.
 
Filip_Ovik
Hi all!

I wonder if GT6 has as slow load times as GT5, I was very close to buy a ssd card just to improve GT5 load times but I didn't. If the load times is similar to GT5, do you have any tips of good SSD cards? I'm not so good at these things so any help is appreciated!

Filip
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There like 100x faster than GT5. I know that's somewhat subjective, but there is a stickied thread above this one with lots of videos from people who have the game already in the OP. There's some videos in there showing menus and stuff, you'll see for yourself how fast it is now.
 
Filip_Ovik
Hi all!

I wonder if GT6 has as slow load times as GT5, I was very close to buy a ssd card just to improve GT5 load times but I didn't. If the load times is similar to GT5, do you have any tips of good SSD cards? I'm not so good at these things so any help is appreciated!

Filip
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I played on a friends PS3 this weekend, it's a hacked console with a filled HD and plenty of fragmentation, his GT5 takes twice as time to load anything as GT5 on my console, which is the only game I have on the disk. Well GT6 loaded very fast, it loaded as fast as the last GT Academy did on my console, so about 5 seconds to load ANY circuit, and 5 seconds more if there is 16 different cars, splitscreen multiplayer took about 10-15 seconds. GT6 loads faster on his [console] than GT5 on mind.

I can't speak about loading and saving further in the game with more cars, paint chips and so on. But the game uses an external garage (dont remember the name) which is an external save actually, to reduce save and load times by reducing the amount of cars to save/load, if you use the feature that is.

The game is fast, the menus, any kind of loading is almost absent now, it is like Forza in this regard, you click the menu opens up. So far the game doesn't indicate it will ever need a SSD, sure it is 15 to 20% faster, but 20% of what? 10 seconds at most, saving 1 or 2 seconds ain't worth it.
 
From what I've seen of comparisons on youtube, an SSD for your PS3 is utterly pointless, and makes no tangible difference to load speeds thanks to internal bottlenecks. Waste of hundreds of dollars.
 
Hmmm... SSD is faster than an HD and does NOT cost hundreds of dollars. Not only is it more quiet, but the airflow in a PS3 is horrible, so it runs a lot cooler with an SSD drive. There is a plus side to the noisy hard drive though; I can sometimes tell if an event starts when I'm tuning. (I sure hope they fix that by simply keeping the message box in view when tuning.)

I had a $60 128GB SSD drive in my PS3 for over a year. Load times were better all around. Even scrolling through community, car selection lists, used cars, and general navigation was MUCH smoother. However, online gaming locked up more A LOT more. Not black screens, but complete system freezes that required a reboot. Almost as if the SSD was responding more quickly than the PS3 could handle. I swapped out my original HD and had fewer lockups which is preferable. Yes, cache was cleared every session and files were installed locally.

I'll probably put the SSD back in for GT6. I'll only be using premium cars and no staging on street cars. Why undo all the work they did getting the physics to match?!
 
I switched the Seagate drive on my fattie (Old PS3) with a Samsung 840 pro 256GB . It's a drastic improvement. The game looks more crisp, load times what load times. If you got $150-$250 I'll highly recommend it. The PS3 will also work at lower temps which in turn improves reliability. SSD is vastly superior to Hybrid drives.
 
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I had a $60 128GB SSD drive in my PS3 for over a year...However, online gaming locked up more A LOT more. Not black screens, but complete system freezes that required a reboot. Almost as if the SSD was responding more quickly than the PS3 could handle. I swapped out my original HD and had fewer lockups..
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That is very interesting. Seeing as I mainly race online, I won't ever be getting an SSD.


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Replying to an old OP :)

SSD helps, wasnt that noticable compared to GT5 where SSD is miles ahead. I wish i could select to install data on GT6 as still constantly reads the bluray unit.
I use Crucial M4 64GB (in PS3 12GB superslim) since i had a spare one. No hickups online; all is working as it should.
 

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