SSD much faster than an old HD, yet almost the same loading times.

SMW1980b14a_ESO

I'm not sure if there is some inefficiency in the loading system, or that it's so optimized that extra speed doesn't provide much benefit, but I've often felt that the loading times in this game are a bit on the long side.

So I performed a test on the same character in the same place on both the newest and fastest of my SSDs, and my old storage drive. I'm sure it goes without saying, but in every way, other than capacity, that SSD absolutely *destroys* the HD. Yet it only loads the into my character slightly faster, at 16 seconds vs 19 seconds. I might add this is typically faster than going into instances and other quest related areas, this is just standing out in middle of the wilderness.

I've compared the loading times with the SSD and compared them to my HDs before, and most games and programs experience massive improvements when loading from the SSD, often as much as between 40%-70% - which is why I am posting.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti
Core i7 @ 2.93Ghz per core w/hyperthreading
8GB G.Skill "gaming" RAM, nearly the top my motherboard supports.
Samsung HD204UI HD
Samsung 840 Series SSD

Belrim

Noticed the very same. It must therefore be game-server related.

Zargorius

Therefore the bottleneck is not on the HD but the server response. It isn't that hard to figure it out?

SMW1980b14a_ESO

No it isn't, but it's not like it's something we can do anything about. Something for them to think about.