I reduced the Lost Ark loading time by 43%

Hey guys, I'm going to be talking about the game Lost Ark a bit, because it is a free game and we talk about free games here! Isn't it good game is free? So anyone can play it (you don't have to be rich!)

Who would have thought a free game would be 75GB? There is so much content on Lost Ark, it's no wonder why it's huge. My SSD is only 256GB, so the game doesn't fit on the SSD. I had no choice but to install it on a 8TB HDD. I timed how long it took to run the game and it took 3min10sec to load.

That is simply crazy. I mean, if you only run the game once it's okay. But imagine if you play the game 10 times. That's half an hour of your life gone just by sitting in front of the monitor waiting! I had to do something about it. So I replaced my SSD on my C drive from 256GB to a 1TB SSD. I will make another video on how I managed to transfer my Windows 11 over.

However, back to this video. I had to move the game from D drive (my 8TB HDD) to C drive (1TB SSD) because I didn't want to download the whole thing again! Even though I have fast internet, it will take a while to download and install a 75GB game.

So I timed the loading time again and it was down to 1 minute 49 seconds. That is a reduction of 1min21 seconds, which is 42.63% (rounded up to 43%) of my original loading time.

Summary is if you have Lost Ark stored on a HDD, move it to a SSD now, otherwise you will be sitting in front of your computer for much longer than you have to..