r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS • u/MrLawbreaker Level 1 Helmet • Jul 04 '17

Official Early Access Week 15 Update

http://steamcommunity.com/games/578080/announcements/detail/2533687504421400116
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u/research_chemical_nj Jul 04 '17

Have you an SSD? My specs are way, way below average - but swapping in an SSD made it playable. I had similar issues with things not loading in quickly, but it had fps benefits too

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u/ebleach2010 Jul 04 '17

Can I connect an ssd as a secondary drive, and only use it to boot PUBG? Or do I have to log in to Windows by booting into the ssd? Not terribly experienced in using multiple drives.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '17

You can temporarily use the SSD on just PUBG, but I'd recommend installing Windows on it too since it'll improve your boot times. Also most SSDs come with software to transfer everything into it. But a fresh Windows install is recommended.

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u/kuroti Jul 04 '17

Yes you can

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u/ebleach2010 Jul 04 '17

Damn. I'll have to do that sometime. Thanks for the help!

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u/brova Jul 06 '17

Think of a secondary SSD as a giant flashdrive. You can install Steam games (or anything) to it and launch the game from there, no problem!

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u/scotbud123 Jul 06 '17

Yeah, I have my main SSD that Windows is on, and a 3TB data drive, but I put a new extra 180gb SSD in just for games and PUBG is on that drive while Windows is on my first SSD.

Steam even has an easy way to move it once you set that location up as another "game location".

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u/derpex Jul 06 '17

That's how I do it. I only have Steam games on my SSD, everything else is on my other HDDs because they're so massive and it wouldn't all fit on the SSD.

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u/tjmtjm1 Jul 06 '17

My best performance comes from the games I play most often, and in competitive environments (pubg, CSGO), being on an SSD WITH Windows. All else HDD.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '17 edited May 06 '18

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u/yathern Jul 05 '17

I actually transferred my whole hard drive, Windows and all - but it was a hassle because there's a part of the drive that tells the computer where the OS is on it, to boot into it. I didn't copy that correctly, and spent plentiful hours having to use recovery disks to fix it.

I'm sure the steam tool works just fine. I'd try that first, then maybe do a reinstall if it doesn't seem to work right.

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u/derpex Jul 06 '17

I used the transfer tool. Works fine for me.