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Re: Denuvo DRM destroying hard drives!

@Deders1980 wrote:

Well in my case I found that running the game drastically increased the mount of SSD bytes written. Over 2 years of use I had gotten to just over 6TB of usage. One playthrough of Inquisition and that figure went up to over 9.5TB.

On my second playthrough I kept the executable on my HDD, and deep linked the main chunk of the game onto my SSD so I'd still have fast loading times. It has now reached 10.5TB and I've just reached Skyhold on my 3rd playthrough.

Lucky I have a Samsung 830. not all drives are as hard wearing.

@DeltaAgent26 wrote something about that here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/PC-Ongoing-investigation-poor-performance-crashes-resource/td-p/4126271

I believe there was a longer guide on SSD optimization but I can't seem to find it.

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Deders1980
Rising Traveler
11 years ago
Ahh i see, funny thing is I monitor my ram usage on the screen on my keyboard and it never went above 7GB. Now with the new patch it does fill right up but I'm not getting the massive amount of writes anymore.