short answer: buy NVMe. plug it directly into your motherboard, don’t use an enclosure. forget about wonky RAID0 crap.
longer answer:
SATA SSDs (which you say in the comments below are all you’ve got) are an evolutionary dead-end. they’re SSDs pretending to be very fast hard drives. they end up being bottlenecked by the assumptions that the SATA protocol makes about how fast a hard drive can be.
look at this chart for example. SATA (AHCI) limits a device to having 32 commands queued up at once, which means the operating system needs to jump through hoops in terms of maintaining its own queue of pending reads & writes and issuing them to the device as queue space becomes available.
NVMe raises that limit to 64k, which for any non-server workload is effectively unlimited. the NVMe drive can respond to IO requests pretty much as quickly as the OS can dispatch them.
if you want to know more nitty-gritty details, Scaling ZFS for NVMe is an interesting talk, much of it isn’t specific to ZFS, but instead is about how NVMe devices are so fast that they’re forcing filesystem developers to rethink long-standing assumptions about drives being slow.
I support you. Roblox is awful and I dont let my kid play it even though that apparently makes me a monster according to people on the internet who know how to raise my child better than I do.
It’s a tough thing. I let him play on it because that is where the very few friends he has are. I did hold out as long as I could. He is autistic, so any interaction with neurotypical kids is good for him. But he can also be a pretty stringent rule follower, so I setup rules for interacting with anyone not a friend he knows personally. And he follows them. In general he doesn’t like playing with rando’s at all. So it works out to be “okay”. Not great. But “okay”. I just don’t want to make me an account, cause then he will want me to play all the lame money grabbing games with him and such.
All in all. If you kid manages to have social interactions with other kids without roblox. Then there is no need for it. Nearly all of the games on there are just money grab pay-to-play games.
Roblox is awful and I dont let my kid play it even though that apparently makes me a monster according to people on the internet who know how to raise my child better than I do.
After the recent news about the CEO supporting paedophiles, I would have done the same. Don’t feel bad.
I expected a much bigger hit to performance when i got a 1TB sd card for my steamdeck and initially only was putting small indie games on there, but after gradually moving up to higher performance games and not really noticing a hit, i just throw everything on there now. I think most games these days are more limited by other factors than storage speed.
In their results (which again may not map 1:1 to your own environment given OS differences etc), there was some difference when moving from a SATA SSD to a "slow" (by current standards) PCIe gen 3 NVMe SSD, but pretty negligible difference beyond that within gaming contexts when moving from that to other, newer/faster NVMe SSDs.
If I were to hazard a guess for your specific setup (assuming you're currently loading mostly from a SATA SSD), it sounds like you might eke out a small loading speed improvement with either a RAID0 (or similar) SATA SSD setup or by moving to an NVMe drive, but the gains are probably only going to be generally meaningful if you're able to somehow use DirectStorage (or a "Linux'd" version of it) somehow. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was the only game within the tested samples that saw meaningful improvements without using DirectStorage when moving to something faster than a single SATA SSD.
Thanks for the link, it addresses both of the doubts I’ve expressed in the post; perhaps at some point I’ll play a game with DS and see how well it carries over to Linux despite the lack of a similar API, I’ll probably stick to the small RAID0 fs I already have and use it for X4 or something.
Probably THE best “first try” from a studio (I think the only other thing round8 did was a trash mmo?).
The weapon system is very interesting but I am not sure if I would call it good? I love that movesets are decoupled from damage which lets me actually try different movesets with almost no penalty since you upgrade the damage. Except for the unique weapons which I feel were a mistake. That said, this ALSO lends itself very well to ridiculously OP/meta builds and… yeah.
The P Organ system can suck my P Organ. Conceptually it is interesting. In practice it is just a progress gated system that shuts out core gameplay mechanics. Although I hear that got heavily rebalanced for the DLC.
Level design… leaves a lot to be desired. It reminded me a lot of Wo Long and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy: Origins: Chad Garland Edition where you have a LOT of unlockable shortcuts to the previous bonfire… right at the next bonfire. Like the levels were designed to be more interconnected until late in dev.
Encounter design ranges from good to bad but doesn’t swing too hard in either direction and there are some REAL good “fuck you” traps that are usually close enough to a shortcut or bonfire that it is more funny than not.
Boss fights are, mostly, REALLY REALLY good. I admittedly only came in after the NPC summons were added but I found the bosses to be well balanced and quite often beat the boss on one of my “learn their attacks” runs before spending a summon token.
That said, the back half of the core game suffers from “Okay, we have let you try different methods until now but this game is really about parrying” with the gimmick/puzzle boss followed by bosses that basically feel like you are just surviving until you can parry one specific attack to do enough stagger damage to actually hit them.
Haven’t got to the DLC yet. But I am really excited for a sale or to just have an Urge to play it. Is Lies of P perfect? No. Is it even on par with most of the From-Souls (let alone the Niohs)? No. But it is probably The Best Of The Rest and I will probably be there day one for Lies of P 2 (especially if it really is about Them).
After I decided to go full time Linux on my gaming machine I decided might as well use both nvme drives I was using foe dual boot as a raid0.
I was playing starfield at the time and remembered reading online about how people hated all the loading screens but I never had an issue because any transition would just fade to black and then you were loaded through
I haven’t played Starfield so I can’t say for sure, but I think people hate that the world is divided into instances rather than being seamless and associate loading screens with that critique… probably.
Nice to see that they’re efficient loading screens, though!
Yeah I think another big issue was the transition from surface to space isn’t seemless so if you play on a HDD then I’d imagine you’d be constantly in loading screens
You can play split screen multiplayer if you go to the 2p wireless mode and make an empty room to run around in. There’ll be an annoying waiting to connect message at the very bottom though. The only downside is that you can’t do the P block challenges. But the ? Panels and Peach Medallions are still there. My 4 year old loves doing this with me.
I handed it to my brother the other day to play for me and the P Blocks and ? panels were like his favorite thing to do lol. Races? Nope. He wants to do collectibles. Granted he’s older than your 4 year old, but it is funny seeing how much children are enjoying the collectibles
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