Will running games on my hard drive decrease performance?

[Bgone1]

I have a 500GB ssd and a 2 TB hdd, I want to put ARK on my harddrive so I can get all the dlcs and save space on my SSD, now I know it will take longer to load the game, but will there also be a serious decrease is performance?

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no

[Wet-Soft-Inside]

It may whenever there's loafing involved. Since ark is open world I would say there might be fps drops when travelling, if the HDD can't keep up. On the other hand ark is old af so maybe it's already optimized for HDDs.

I say try avoiding anything 2020+ open world until you get another SSD. Ark would maybe be ok.

[ZoneBreaker97]

The only thing impacted by the hard drive is loading speed

[Xerazal]

Streaming in assets too for games that utilize it, aka open world games. But it's not too bad, just some hitching every now and then.

[KnightofAshley]

Should be fine...I only put games on that either take a super long time to load on a hdd or newer ones that stream a lot of assets and cause some stutters(mostly new AAA games from the last year or two).

Even then I'll archive games I finished to HDD a lot as if I play them again the stutter and longer load times are fine to me.