So Ubisoft has released a demonstration that showcases intels current SSD's , and how they supposedly impact the gameplay of brotherhood .

They also released a statement
which i find really silly , i mean come on...

Intel has been running some tests on their new Solid-State Drive 510 Series and they discovered some pretty awesome things when they loaded up Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Turns out, the performance boost from the solid-state drives actually got our horses to run faster in-game.

are they trying to be funny?

If you dont know what an ssd is , its basicly a storage device without any moving parts , making it able to access files at incredible speeds.

Article from Tested about ssd's if you want to dig a bit deeper.

What ubisoft is saying is that a regular harddrive cant stream the games assets fast enough for you to sprint with a horse ( something that is usually pretty granted in games of this kind ). If this is true ,

and you truly need this for the game to be able to stream stuff fast enough , ubisoft has done a very poor job with this engine,

and if its the other way , as in ubisoft and intel just doing a bs campaign , much like crytek did when stating that 64 bit processors ment games would look better. (farcry)

its even worse than the first alternative.

I personally think its kind of cool that they put this into the game at this late, cause im guessing they "put" it in there , i doubt the horses have realtime dynamic sprint speed depending on how fast your drives are. Its probably a binary sprint or no sprint situation. ( ssd or no ssd )

I also think they should be able to fit alot of these things in the ram actually. So what do you guys think?

why is it that every other game on the surface of the earth seems to be able to run fine on regular harddrives? I mean , there are games out there where you can move faster than in assassins creed brotherhood , whilst the enviroment is more detailed.

I'm confused as to what I'm seeing. The horse runs faster because the game can stream information faster? That makes sense to me.

I'm at a loss here...why is this an outrage?  They look basically the same to me. 

This makes perfect sense to me. If you have some high-end equipment, why not take advantage of it? Damn, now I want a solid state drive.

I don't understand exactly what's going on here, but the horse in this game are awful in comparison to Red Dead. I was just playing yesterday. They're gigantic, and move unrealistically. Not a fan of the horses. Good thing the game's not about horses.

Is this real?  It seems way too lame to be real. 

How is Assassins Creed on the PC anyway?  I can't imagine playing it with a keyboard.

honestly do not understand any of the points you or the video are trying to make.  Verbose much?

Yeah...

Ok, so obviously streaming the environment from an SSD is faster and smoother than from HDD. Great that Ubisoft is taking advantage of this.
Seriously, what's the outrage about?

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Is this real?  It seems way too lame to be real. 

 

How is Assassins Creed on the PC anyway?  I can't imagine playing it with a keyboard.

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"But it looks like they essentially took the limit off the horse's speed and attributed the whole thing to Intel's technology.  It's probably a line of BS but I don't understand why that would be outrageous. "

All I can tell is that SSD footage is sped up and there was a bit of texture pop in half way through.

Yes.....outrageous. Seriously, who really cares if someone elses horse can run a bit faster. Also, its all just marketing for Intel anyway which isn't a big deal either.

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Is this real?  It seems way too lame to be real. 

 

How is Assassins Creed on the PC anyway?  I can't imagine playing it with a keyboard.

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i dont think the hdd horse is actually running... on the hybrid im just assumin it would be faster, but the horse isnt even gallopin in the hdd version. no one ever play ac for christs sake?

They're saying they had to make the horses slower than they would have liked originally, because they couldn't stream in the world fast enough from an HDD (or disk I guess) to keep up.  Streaming in the world from an SSD is faster, which allows them to have the horses run as fast as they intended.

There's still plenty of obnoxious texture pop-in going on in that SSD video though.

I like it when people get angry about stupid things.

Funny, my first thought was: Hey, the framerate is shitty on the one to the left. Oh.. ok. Yeah, always thought using the horse felt like only a slightly faster way to travel than running. But who cares, it's all about stabbing dudes anyway.

" They're saying they had to make the horses slower than they would have liked originally, because they couldn't stream in the world fast enough from an HDD (or disk I guess) to keep up.  Streaming in the world from an SSD is faster, which allows them to have the horses run as fast as they intended.There's still plenty of obnoxious texture pop-in going on in that SSD video though. "

lol people don't know you can play PC games with a controller

Yeah, they can speed the horse up on an SSD because the environment streams faster, on an HDD they have to make it slower to avoid showing too much pop in, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Martha get my shotgun.

Shit's going down.

I'm actually seeing framerate issues on the SSD that's not in the HDD on that video.

I think they are saying you can stream the level faster because the horse is moving at such a fast speed and normal hardrives can't stream that without slowing down.

I have a SSD drive, but is it only for the intel version?

" lol people don't know you can play PC games with a controller

never gets old

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They looked exactly the same to me. Even if they are different, whats the big deal? Better hardware runs games better. Thats always the way things have been with PC games.

" @benjaebe: No. The horse on the right was not going as fast as it could. "

" They looked exactly the same to me. Even if they are different, whats the big deal? Better hardware runs games better. Thats always the way things have been with PC games. "

PC hardware - muscling through inadequacies of game engines since there were games.

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How is Assassins Creed on the PC anyway?  I can't imagine playing it with a keyboard.

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Is it really only Intel SSDs? Ah well.

" lol people don't know you can play PC games with a controller

never gets old

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OP updated and thread consequently unlocked. See, aren't we nice? :D

Honestly, no one sees that in one screen he's galloping and in the other just.. running or whatever it's called?

  @Sweep:  thanks for the unlock , and for making me complete the 1984 quest set !
 

@Azteck:  yeah , apparently you cant sprint unless you have an ssd.

cause if you would , the regular harddrive wouldnt be able to cope with the player moving at sprint speed , it wouldn't be able to load in all the new assets the player is swoshing past.
atleast thats what ubisoft are trying to pitch here.

 ...why is this an outrage?

I'm confused as to what I'm seeing. The horse runs faster because the game can stream information faster? That makes sense to me.