Windrose can put excessive strain on storage drives and write more than 100 GB of data per hour

The pirate-themed RPG survival sport Windrose, developed by the Uzbek studio Kraken Categorical, has been reported to place unusually heavy pressure on storage drives—typically writing over 100 GB of information per hour.

In keeping with a report by Tom’s Hardware, a number of avid gamers and specialists observed that the sport, at the moment in early entry, causes abnormally excessive disk exercise. In some circumstances, it reads and writes knowledge at speeds of 15–30 MB/s, relying on what the participant is doing and the place their character is positioned within the sport. The load solely drops in sure areas or when the participant stays idle.

A tech fanatic generally known as Pixel Operative in contrast disk utilization throughout a number of video games over 60–90 seconds. In Valheim, the system examine 1 GB and wrote simply 5 MB of information. In Enshrouded, it learn 7 GB and wrote 695 MB. Nonetheless, Windrose confirmed dramatically increased utilization, studying 32 GB and writing 1.3 GB in the identical timeframe.

Consultants estimate that underneath heavy gameplay circumstances, Windrose may write greater than 100 GB of information in only one hour. This stage of exercise may doubtlessly harm drives utilizing QLC reminiscence or older SSDs. The problem is believed to be attributable to an inefficient save system throughout the sport.

Happily, the builders have already addressed the issue. In patch model 0.10.0.4.268, they launched optimizations to cut back disk нагрузка (load). Checks by Pixel Operative verify that after the replace, write speeds throughout gameplay dropped considerably to round 10–16 MB/s. Gamers are strongly suggested to replace the sport as quickly as doable.