I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it’s because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.
But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.
So I think YMMV depending on the game. I’ve got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.
The biggest issues I’ve had with sd cards has been the exFAT file system, not the card itself, the ext4 or btrfs drives are soooo much faster and cleaner to use than “compatible” exFAT formatting.
I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it’s because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.
But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.
So I think YMMV depending on the game. I’ve got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.
The biggest issues I’ve had with sd cards has been the exFAT file system, not the card itself, the ext4 or btrfs drives are soooo much faster and cleaner to use than “compatible” exFAT formatting.
Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.