It's odd, and I know that my hardware is pretty outdated (sigh....there goes the days where my computer was the best in the world... ☹️ ), but apart from those seemingly 'loading' problems, I've relatively little issues with FPS, and the cluttering I mentioned goes away every time I close and reopen the game, even while being in the same area that had those issues. That's why I discarded CPU/GPU as being the problem (as if they were indeed the problem, I'd have FPS problems no matter if I close and reopen the game).
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The overall performance boost from swapping out an HDD to an SSD is incredible and not limited to just Inquisition. Your PC will be much, much faster to load up everything you do with it, particularly the initial boot but also every application. Back when SSD's were coming out, numerous tech reviewers said that the #1 upgrade to do to an old machine is to make the work disk of the machine an SSD. That's because it has a wide-ranging performance benefit over all the loading that the machine does, and because the benefit is so noticeable between an HDD and an SSD.
One of my machines is an Intel E6600 with 2 gigs of DDR2 and a GTX650. But it has an SSD so it feels incredibly snappy. Trust me, upgrading to an SSD can literally make an old machine "feel" new again.
Then the bad. It won't make the Inquisition stuttering go away. I get the same stuttering even with my Samsung 850 EVO SSD, Intel i7 5930k at 4,2 GHz and 32 gigs of DDR4. But I bet you'll be happier with the SSD overall.
I mean some -serious- stuttering, like the game taking up to 5-10 seconds to close the menus, and the scenario going slow the rest of the time until I reload the game.
Anyway, I think I'm gonna buy it. I've seen a Samsung 850 Pro 128 Gbs for 100 bucks. For what I've read it's an amazing SSD, and I've never used up a lot of HDD in my life (even now that I've a shitload of * and games I don't play installed in my system, and yet I've only used 90 GBs of my 200 GB HDD).
No matter if it actually fixes your issues or not, an SSD is a must-have for PCs anyway, so it's definitely not wasted money.
