Quick hardware question

If I place my games on a 1TB ext drive would it affect the game when wanting to play it since its connected via usb? Can you move the steam file? Just got the thing in the mail and going to move other files as well. Thanks

 

It should work (not that it's recommendable) after moving the whole assettocorsa folder and launching manually the AssettoCorsa.exe, but expect longer loadings and more cpu overhead while these happen due to the usb connection instead of SATA. Also, your config, replays, etc, will remain in your local hard drive's documents\Assetto Corsa folder.

 

USB is much slower then SATA and it wouldn't be the best idea to run all your games from it. External HDD's are good for storing other data that doesn't require "performance" such as documents and music/movies.

Also the way USB 3.0 has been implemented and depending on the way they assigned the data lanes most USB 3.0 ports don't even reach the theoretical maximum. In some cases depending on the USB chip used if you use all the ports they run at 1/4 speed.

If you have a decent USB expansion card where each port has its own data lane then you could hit the maximum but it's still not recommended. AC won't like it at all.

What HDD are you using, can you post the model?

 

Thanks, yeah I figured it was not an optimal thing to do just havent got around to build the pc yet and keep deleting stuff on current laptop just to either fit another DLC or update. Just gonna put pics, vids and other work related info on ext drive. Thanks for the input guys.

 

I dont know how much the game loads off disk drive after initial track load, I think most is loaded to memory so as long as your running 64 bit and have enough free ram it should never need to cache or load from disk drive once in game. Startup times would be the most effected and I cant honestly say there has been any difference in game from when I ran it off a HDD to SSD but load times are quicker. Even replay files are limited by system ram as in game these aren't saved to disk until you exit the session or in sp press save in replay mode, so its quite likely in a non RAM limited 64bit system actual in game performance should be pretty much the same no matter what disk your storing your game files on.