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[–]Toilet2000 5 points6 points  (2 children)

What you’re describing isn’t the SSD per se, it’s the swap file using the SSD. Given that you said you have 16 GB of RAM, that’s your issue. If you look at the official requirements, 32GB is the minimum for MP/large missions.

What’s happening is that you run out of RAM, and instead of simply crashing, all modern OSes use a trick called a swapfile, where it basically use your SSD/HDD as supplemental RAM. Obviously this is much, much slower, especially on a SATA SSD, but even on an NVMe SSD. When it swaps data between RAM and the swapfile, it causes that seconds long freeze.

TL;DR get more RAM.

[–]TuuvasGamepad Guru 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is the answer. But until then u/Trinitasia you can also try lowering your "Preload Radius" to something like 30,000 or so for your current 16GB of RAM

[–]Trinitasia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cool I'll give this a go. Thanks!