do i need a new HDD/SSD?

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Hey folks,

i´ve got a question for you, i ask myself for a time why company of heroes 2 feels not 100% nice and smoth pereformance wise.
So i startet to check out what it could be, and i figured out the HDD is might be the problem. What you say?

Everything runs fine, except the HDD looks not so great but im not a specialist, so im asking here.

Just a short view on my spec, but i thing im fine with it to run coh.

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 Quad-Core 3,4 GHz (Turbo 3,8 GHz)
Ram: 8192MB 1600MHz DDR3
Graficcard: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Overclocked Grafic, 2 GB GDDR5
OS: Windows 8.1 x64

I run coh on mid grafic´s, no AA no vsync but it feels not running 100% like in streams ala Luvnest. And if i do the system test it recommands low grafics for me.

You guys are aksed now, what can i do to improve, maybe a new HDD or i would like to buy a SDD?

Thanks for your attention and feedback to poor OKW lover!

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There's your problem you have a GTX 660 Kappa and get an SSD

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is this card that bad?

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Get a GTX 960 Keepo

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Your spec is ok. Card is mediocre for coh2 so it probably is a bottle neck but it should run the game on mid / high depending on your fps needs. System test is bugged and recommends lowest settings for most, if not all, configutations.

As for hdd itself there is no need to upgrade to SSD unless:
1. You are ok with defragmenting partition every patch.
2. You don't mind waiting a beat longer on the loading screen.

You can see if HDD is performing good enough for coh2 by playing a 4v4 on winter map. If there is no fps drop just at the beginning of a match (so that all other ppl can issue orders but you still wait for some data to load) then your hdd works fine. If there is a problem and defragmentation doesn't help you need SSD. SSD solves all disk problems of coh2, windows, and other programs (works much faster and needs no defragmentation) so I recommend it but if there is no need you should think if the price is worth the convenience. And if you want higher graphics settings you should rather invest money in GPU rather than disk. If you decide to stay with your HDD it would be best to create separate 25-30 GB partition just for coh2 so that defragmentating it after patch was quicker.