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Do Gen Explosions use disk or RAM?

CLB198
CLB198 Member Posts: 315
in Ask the Community

The discovery of a pure solid state drive fixing most graphical issues for console players had me thinking if this game uses disk for most of its processes like TF2.

Answers

  • ABannedCat
    ABannedCat Member Posts: 2,529

    Looking at Task Manager, Dbd usually causes around 10-20MB/s disk usage during matches for me. So ....

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 2,039

    Educated guess, both. When the first one happens it puts the animation/VFX on the RAM from the disk and then it takes it from the RAM afterwards. Im just guessing because when it usually first happens in a game, it stutters.