 One viewer had asked for a crisis level loading times on the 8 SSD array, so I'm actually firing up crisis right now I just installed it just installed the patch so this is a First boot for the game on this machine, so I'm running the MSI cyclone GTX 460 1gig I've got a 4 gigahertz core i7 875k So that's an overclocked processor, and then I've got 4 gigs of Kingston blue series HyperX RAM with tightened up timings, and then obviously I have the 8 OCZ Onyx series SSDs running off an LSI raid controller, so oh Shoot I think crisis is one of those games that takes like 300 years to launch the first time So well that'll be my evidence that this is indeed the first time I'm launching it Who runs great on core to duo I bet it does but it runs even greater on better stuff. Here's a core to duo Right there check it out you Okay, anyway, so let's go ahead and go into options configure the game a little bit because you know What's the point of playing crisis if you're not gonna play it right so we turn up the details? Click apply. Oh, I better not have to reboot the game or anything for any of this okay? Yeah, I want to keep this resolution advanced. I whatever gamer settings is fine. No. I don't want to change anything okay single-player new game Delta Start game okay, so let's see how long it takes. This is a cut screen. We don't care about this oh You gotta be kidding. You gotta be kidding me. I can't skip the cut cutscene Unbelievable If someone knows what button to press leave it in the comments there psycho. Oh hi there Now he's probably invisible or something No, he's very visible Now he has a mask though. I don't know how the mask got on his face Okay, now he's running really fast Here's what I can't figure out how do they run fast and jump high Because I've tried to do it several times like you know how you do the middle click and then you scroll to whatever Maximum ability you want to do like I've actually tried like maximum speed and running and then switching to maximum strength and jumping But it doesn't actually work or maybe I can't get the timing down What I really wish I could do is just end the cutscene, and then we could actually show the level loading time Okay, he stomped some guy see he did his magical thing where he can run really fast and jump really far And then use maximum strength again See when are we gonna actually get a game that comes with like Like realistic gameplay footage like I it'd be kind of fun to play this game if you were just actually like a Tank like the way he is where he's just riding on top of a truck, and he's getting pummeled But you can't actually take that much abuse One of my co-workers is giving me a hard time about how I can't do that and apparently I should enable suit shortcuts But I don't really care because the game was pretty easy. I didn't end up needing to do it. I Only played through the first one though. I haven't actually played through warhead so Yeah, I have no idea maybe warhead is more difficult See my SSDs aren't working very hard right now because there's not a whole lot of loading to do in fact My video card isn't working very hard right now either Because this is running at like 640 by 480 or whatever resolution Cutscenes have been been displayed at for the last 20 years Yeah, hey, it's finally over chopper went down I've never been able to get a game like this before It's finally over chopper went down. I've never been that happy to see a chopper go down Okay level loading there. We go. It's finally doing it the loading is in progress So this is that that rate array that I can see about 700 megabytes per second sequential reads on This is substantially faster than what I've seen in the past although. I'm not sure how impressive it is But there you have it crisis level loading time on an 8 SSD array Like I said in the video about the array I wasn't all that happy with the performance of it overall I would have liked to use some higher-end SSDs, but I don't have enough of them handy to really make that a reality So that was it. Thank you for checking out my video on how long it takes to launch crisis for the first time Like too long and then how long it takes to load the first level can you shoot this guy it happens? You can't shoot him. That's too bad. Okay. Don't forget to subscribe to my video blog Linus Tech Tips