Compatibility of NVMe SSDs with City of Heroes Homecoming Servers

[jackhicks121]

Hi everyone,

I'm considering upgrading my storage setup and was wondering if anyone has experience using the Solid State Drives/NVMe SSD/3.8TB-HHHL with the City of Heroes Homecoming servers. Specifically, I'm interested in knowing:

1. How well does this SSD perform in terms of read/write speeds and overall reliability?

2. Are there any specific configurations or settings needed to optimize its performance for the game?

3. Have you encountered any compatibility issues or challenges with this SSD on the Homecoming server?

Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[macskull]

An NVMe SSD (or any type of storage, really) isn't going to improve your graphics performance or anything like that, if that's what you're looking for. At best it might result in miniscule improvements to launch and load times but that heavily depends on the rest of your system. If you're running an older system you're unlikely to see any noticeable system-wide improvements versus running a SATA SSD. If your concern is load times the single biggest factor there is your graphics settings. This game was pretty poorly optimized for contemporary hardware even near the tail end of its retail run in 2011-2012 and even now relies pretty heavily on outdated or deprecated libraries and APIs.

 

TL;DR: as far as the game is concerned any even semi-modern storage solution will handle it just fine and it's the graphics settings that have the biggest effect on performance.

[Captain Fabulous]

It will work just like a standard hard drive. You don't need to configure it in any way and there are no incompatibilities. The game doesn't know what kind of storage device you have.

[Herotu]

6 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:

It will work just like a standard hard drive. You don't need to configure it in any way and there are no incompatibilities. The game doesn't know what kind of storage device you have.

Only if you don't tell it! Shhhhhhh...