Quoting: Arcadius-8606What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

I thought that also you don't have enough space to keep more games on your computer.

I decided to keep my two old hard drives in my main computer, which means 4 Terabytes only for games. In this case, I don't have to bother about how many games I installed on them.

I use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

Last edited by gbudny on 10 Apr 2022 at 2:22 am UTC

Quoting: gbudnyI use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

In a similar vein, I decided to buy a 240GB SSD to use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (over usb3) and it only cost £22 ($28 USD). Although it adds to the overall size of the Pi unit, the performance and reliability benefits far outweigh running with an SD card.

Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: gbudnyHave you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

But, why? I don't understand.

Last edited by Cyril on 12 Apr 2022 at 7:40 pm UTC

Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: CyrilBut, why? I don't understand.

If a game is ONLINE only, why should I put it on my HD and deal with the space issues for a game that is dead to me when I am offline?

Changes are also that an online only game has DRM or anti-cheat....If it's that bad out here put it in the cloud and call it a day.

I don't care myself, but my understanding is that other people are mystified by your game-playing use-case. Maybe if you clarified what you are doing it might satisfy peoples' curiosity.

My take on it is that you are playing simple browser games, rather than big PVP First Person Shooters. There is value to be gained in terms of frame-rate and mouse response times when you are playing a PVP game which is stored locally as opposed to playing it on a streaming service like Stadia, where the streaming causes some slow-down in the response.

I play it in Wine / Proton etc. And I don't mind playing games there if they perform better than native versions which can happen.