War Thunder — SSD vs HDD load times in open-world games

Hoping someone can sanity-check my reasoning before I commit to it. It works fine most of the time, but the edge cases are where I keep getting stuck.

I can post logs or screenshots if that would make this easier to diagnose.

Had the exact same issue. do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Others may have a cleaner method.

I went through this last month. you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

In my testing, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Not the answer you want, but ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Only partly related, but nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

In my testing, keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

The usual fix here is it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

That fixed it for me, at least.

For what it is worth, worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

This is the bit people miss — do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Slightly different take — do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Counterpoint: the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Let us know which part worked.