does anyone have any experience playing games off of an external

>>60984421
What are you asking?

You'd be limited by how fast it can read/write data, so I'd imagine loading screens or anything that needs to read from the drive would slow it down.

Try making a RAM disk and loading the game onto there from the drive.

>>60984441
does playing games off an external drive degrade performance, or lead to instability or crashing?

no but dont do this kind of retarded shit

>>60984421
>im not exactly sure what causes it,

usb has shit IOPS. you should never run applications off an external, unless it's a true pci-e lane tech like thunderbolt.

>>60984459
Not really no. If the external wants to go into power saving mode that might be a problem.

I've played a bunch of games from a usb3 HDD. Worked perfectly.

>>60984459
>does playing games off an external drive degrade performance
>The current state of neo /g/
Just go back to /v/ and stop making threads that break the rules of this fine board faggot. Obviously you don't belong here.

>>60984462
>>60984483
>>60984493
thanks. i recently started doing it cause i was curious and also wanted an easier way to bring games over to a few friends houses.
>>60984500
sorry. i expected some hate for this. hey, if its worth anything, i know what RAID is and built 2 computers. i'll leave now.