Fortnite — SSD vs HDD load times in open-world games

Posting from the other side of a very long troubleshooting session. Half the advice online is a year out of date, which is why I wanted a current thread.

Two settings appear to interact in a way the menu does not hint at. Any pointers appreciated, even partial ones.

Had the exact same issue. the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

This comes up a lot, so: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Only partly related, but check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Others may have a cleaner method.

I went through this last month. the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Depends on your setup, but broadly do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

The usual fix here is the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Agreed on most of this, except the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

For what it is worth, temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.