Crysis Level Loading Time With 8x OCZ Onyx SSD RAID0 on LSI MegaRaid 9260-8i Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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one viewer had asked for uh crisis level loading times on the 8 SSD array so I'm
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actually firing up crisis right now I just installed it just installed the
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patch so this is a first boot for the game on this machine so I'm running the
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MSI Cyclone GTX 460 1 gig I've got a 4
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GHz core i7 875k so that's an overclocked processor and then I've got
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4 gigs of uh Kingston blue series hyperx
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RAM with tightened up timings and then obviously I have the eight ocz Onyx
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series ssds running off in LSI RAID
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controller so oh shoot I think crisis is
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one of those games that takes like 300 years to launch the first time so um
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well that'll be my evidence that this is indeed the first time I'm launching it o
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runs great On Core 2 Duo I bet it does
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but it runs even greater on better stuff here's a Core 2
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Duo right there check it out yo okay anyway
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so let's go ahead and go into options configure the game a little bit cuz you
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know what's the point of playing crisis if you're not going to play it right so
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we turn up the details uh click apply oh I better not
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have to reboot the game or anything for any of this okay yeah I want to keep
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this resolution Advanced H whatever gamer settings is fine no I don't want
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to change anything okay single player new game Delta start game okay so let's
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see how long it takes this is a cut screen we don't care about
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this oh you got to be kid you got to be kidding me I can't skip the cut SC cut
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scene
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unbelievable If someone knows what button to press leave it in the comments
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there's psycho oh hi
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there now he's probably invisible or
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something no he's very visible now he
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has a mask though I don't know how the mask got on his face okay now he's
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running really
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fast here's what I can't figure out how do they run fast and jump high cuz uh I
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I've tried to do it several times like you know how you do the the middle click
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and then you scroll to whatever maximum
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ability you want to do like I've I've actually tried like maximum speed and
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running and then switching to maximum strength in jumping but it doesn't
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actually work or maybe I can't get the timing down but I really wish I could do
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is just end the cut scene and then we could actually show the level loading
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time okay he stomped some guy see he did
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his magical thing where he can run really fast and jump really far and then
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use maximum strength again see when are we going to actually
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get a game that comes with like uh like
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realistic gameplay footage like I it'd be kind of fun to play this game if you
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were just actually like a tank like the
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way he is where he's just riding on top of a truck and he's getting pummeled but
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you can't actually take that much
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abuse one of my co-workers is giving me a hard time about how I can't do that
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and apparently I should enable suit short cuts but I don't really care
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because the game was pretty easy I I didn't end up needing to do
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it I only played through the first one though I haven't actually played through
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Warhead so
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um yeah I have no idea maybe Warhead is more difficult see my ssds aren't work
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very working very hard right now because there's not a whole lot of loading to do
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in fact my video card isn't working very hard right now either because this is
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running at like 640x 480 or whatever
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resolution cut scenes have been uh been
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displayed at for the last 20 years yay it's finally over Chopper went
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down I've never been that happy to see a chopper go
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down okay level loading there we go it's finally doing it the loading is in
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progress so this is that that raid array that I can see about H 700 megabytes per
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second sequential reads on uh this is substantially faster than what I've seen
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in the past although I'm not sure how impressive it is but there you have it
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crisis level loading time on an 8 SSD
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array uh like I said in the video about the array I wasn't all that happy with
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the performance of it overall I would have like to use some higher end ssds
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but I don't have enough of them handy to really make that a
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reality so that was it thank you for checking out my video on how long it
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takes to launch crisis for the first time it's like too long and then how
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long it takes to load the first level can you shoot this guy what
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happens oh you can't shoot him that's too bad okay don't forget to subscribe
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