A Terrifying Investigation into CS2's Loading Times 

"Drank a few of my Elixers." That fool, everyone knows you save those for the final boss but never actually use them during the final fight.

10:41, this is the last thing I could've ever expected to see in a load times video

10:41 The artist is 高比良りと or Rito Takahira The book is called 不機嫌イトコがかわい過ぎて仕方ない! or I can't help it because the grumpy guy is too cute! I found the artists amazon page but am unable to find that particular book on amazon I did find it in alot of other places, unfortunately i cant find a digital copy Regardless i found it, this took me multiple hours cause i wasted time trying to find a digital copy before finding the actual book Also i cant read Japanese

I don’t think anyone thinks your content is boring!

+Is that the real 3kilks -Hello (in a weird high pitch noise) +Holy shit it is I didn't expect to laugh so hard at this.

i really appreciate the person who marked 4:11, which is exactly when caboosing starts playing, as a highlight of the entire video

2:41 lol nice game variety

3:36 the cat appearance... I thought my cat jumped up on my desk and I reached out to pets for a split second.

5:17 Oh my god I'm a photographer and I keep thousands of photos on one of these things and didn't know about the random failing thing at all, ima need to get them off there asap 😵‍💫 Life saving info, thank you counter strike man 🙏

5:10 cat drive

10:41 i had no idea mr clicksPhilip was so incredibly based

7:03 Philip, what is that in the flash? Why is there a small mustached angry man?

i think the best improvement to your content has been how fluffykins finds a way into almost any video. even this one. this isn't a tech channel, this is a cat channel!

The new music is so good

My phone bugged out and I think I may have accidentally reported this video for misinformation!!! I did not mean to do that, but I wanted to turn myself (more so my phone, to be honest) in, just because I feel bad :(

10:40 philip enjoys fine reading

3:40 what a magnificent specimen

Chaotic evil is when a game has an unskippable cutscene that doesn't load the game in the meantime. We can be thankful for parameter editing

bro these background songs of yours and your dads are so good

10:42 😳

Any Kliks video makes my day at least a little better, gonna enjoy this one! :D

Thank you for giving us another retrospective segment :)

I can watch a video from you on literally any topic, love your content! :D

Excellent video, good work as usual Phillip. Love that tiny arse USB on the keyring! also I hope you didn't have to evacuate when they moved that bomb!

Love your vids so much. Been watching since 10 years and you're one of the few RU-vidrs where I click (klik) on every single upload and watch the video happily. Please never stop

i love when u make longer videos :) they make my day

Thank u for blessing us with such a great video again philip. It was very interesting and entertaining 😊

Your content is amazing. I don’t think any other content creator looks at games in such an analytical and technical perspective like you do. Your videos have the perfect balance of humor and in a way are educational, yet the the things you learn are almost useless

Philip your Content is something I greatly appreciate and look forward too when I see it in my feed. That is all.

great video, had good amounts of Caboosing, one of the main things i was waiting for from this video.

I was just binge watching all of your videos and suddenly you posted... As always, great video Philip! Even though I haven't watched this full video yet 😂

Damn that was a nice ad philip, actually it didnt even feel like one lmao, great video as always, much love from Brazil.

Thanks for the knowledge I never knew I didnt need. Love your videos :D

Man I love that cat A couple lil things I wanna add, as someone who used to use them for games, external SSDs can introduce a lot of latency and therefore stuttering in games, though probably not CS. The cost difference between pcie 3 and 4 drives is quite small too, last I bought one it was only a tenner

I fucking love your cat(s). Had to stop the video just to comment this the minute I saw him just standing there 3:40

very much appreciate all this mr fluffykins content we are getting, keep it up!

oh no the Elixers!! XD glad you were able to get your save back, just having a peace of mind that it's there would put me at ease

I love your videos because they can be any level of interesting. I can sit there and watch the same video to soothe my mind to fall asleep or to intently and actively listen to you go in depth on a topic to learn more about something. How do you manage to be so soothing and stimulating at once Philip?????

i literally dont even play csgo or cs2 (nor do i watch it), yet i still watch your videos on a rather mundane part of the game just because i like the style of your videos. You're a special part of RU-vidrs, philip

That region lock out feature on that router is gold for cs2... I'm jealous

10:40 lovely to see your japan souvenirs on display

i love you, your presentations, and your cat phil !

That Gen 5 drive paired with your signagure music sting just made me smile like an idiot. Never change Phillip, never change

Did you ever do a video about the Audio settings that was implemented a few months ago? Thanks, ur the man.

Im sorry by why is there a brief moment of hitlers face at 7:03 that shit caught me off guard💀

Great video philip. Just wanna say that the WD green hardrive shown in the vid only spins at 5400rpm so it performs worse than the regular 7200rpm ones, which probably made the internal and external hdd results identical.

thanks Philippian, this video had many useful advices for someone not expertised in computers.

wow, i did not know the san disk ssds had failures, i had a lot of iomages aved on mine, jsut made a backup to my internal ssd. thank you for spreading the mesage

@7:51 good thing you noticed before it became a problem for you. Me on the other hand: lost all my personal important docs and many other useful stuff because I trusted I could just drag and drop my entire Documents folder into onedrive and leave it uploading over night. Found out 6 months later after full windows 10 reinstall that all onedrive shitty interface did was create all subfolders, but no files lol (actually, only a total of ~10mb of useless Adobe's config files)

Yep, your OS uses RAM as cache for files. If you open up task manager and look at the ram usage, then most of the "free" RAM is actually just random files from your hard drive being cached. You can use Sysinternals RAMMap to see how your RAM actually gets used and which files specifically are cached.

Another banger thanks mr klik

If anyone was wondering it took just about 13 seconds to load into the main menu with Optane. At least its fast to make up for costing 650 per 400gb on sale.

the implementation of cat has drastically increased the wonder of your videos and i very much apprechiate it :>

What about SD cards? The Steam Deck and other portable consoles can only really have their storage increased by using SD cards. (Yes I know you can replace the internal SSD but most people won't do that. Using a USB dongle could work but it's very inconvenient if you want to use it portably)

0:09 the weasel on the wall is so scary

I just start salivating like a dog waiting for his feast when I hear digadig+3kliks' voice.

2:40 Love the soundtrack :)

Bruh 3:39 I was watching in a dark room from my tv and tought that my cat jumoed in front of it 😂😂

You say your stuff's boring, but I think that you make even the most pointless stuff like this very interesting. Either that or I just enjoy your content regardless of what it is. :)

I like that was filmed in Pripyat, very nice!

i admire your video game choice phillip 2:40

gotta love the audio crime 2 music

I almost flew too close to the sun and lost years of music projects through a raid 0 hard drive DAS I foolishly expected wouldn't die on me after about a year. I also once relied on a cloud backup service only to realize it didnt save executables or DLLs by default...

Thanks for the benchmark! Now with this I'm happy that my Macbook running CS2 with CrossOver is as fast as a normal pc with a nvme drive. It takes 8 secs from Steam to the Valve logo and then 14 seconds to menu, that while translating x86_64 to ARM and DX11 to Apple's own Metal. Sadly we don't have the PC specs to compare "raw speed" with the loading times PS: I bought a Macbook to stop gaming but uhm, I wasn't successful.

I play CS from an HDD because I can't buy an NVME or SATA drive just now. The warmups for the competitive games end once I arrive to the server.

7:03 is that who I think it is in the flash, but why?

10:41 ngl I was more excited by Jensen figurine than the manga

10:40 I didnt know philip like such sus literature

2:40 Umm, whats that on that list in the bottom right corner??

Size does impact the performance of an SSD. This is because higher capacity SSDs tend to have more NAND Flash modules, though this doesn't always apply when comparing SSDs from different manufacturers or made in different years. For example I have a 1TB SATA SSD which uses multiple FLASH modules however these days you can buy a compact NVMe SSD which has just one Flash module. There's also the aspect of diffrent NAND Flash types. Your Samsung QVO uses QLC cells which hold more data per cell however they perform worse and can sustain a lower number of write cycles compared to TLC cells. And all of that's before you consider that some SSDs (especially the very cheap ones) lack a DRAM cache which has a big impact on performance.

Ooh, I remember Jade Cocoon. It was pretty good.

I had to stop playing cs2 because i have no SSD and in consequence my game always has little freezes, usually in the worst possible moments like peaking or when an eny comes around the corner.

It's also important how fast the VRAM can be filled when it comes to 3D graphics like the main menu of CS:GO. I suspect a slower GDDR5X will also load slower into the main menu compared to, say, one with HBM2 or GDDR6 memory.

This man is the reason i know so much about cs...and why i fall asleep so quickly

11:48 You didn't mention the fact that many operating systems automatically use RAM to buffer the files on disk. This could also explain the fact that the RAM drive was just as fast as the NVME.

i love the easter eggs in this video

7:02 flash of an austrian painter, had to double-check

i think you have a misconception at 8:30. 2,5 Inch HDDs are actually very capable of pretty decent speeds. their read head has a smaller travel (good for any non sequential reads, like a game), and the platters can be spun a lot faster because they are more lightweight. In enterprise storage systems, there are setups with 2,5 and 3,5 drives mixed to reap the benefits of both form factors. 2,5' Hdds are definetely not a worse drive in general.

Nice video! I would love if you could test different linux distros and compare them to windows. I'm probably ditching windows in the next months and I'd like to know what's my best option or if I'd had to dual boot. Thanks for your great content ^^

man that memory card story fucking hit me like a train, i make multiple backups of the saves on my favorite games in fear of losing them, coudnt imagine the pain in having my saves erased like that

Ayeeee we got the same case. Thermal quake?

I'm starting to suspect there are also speed differences between desktop hard drives. Like maybe the lower-density ones are not just using lower density platters, but are also single-sided to save on the cost of coating the other side and including a second head, so in practice if you have a bigger one it's also going to be reading and writing twice as much data at a time.

Is that Enigmata music in the background? I love Enigmata!!

Is this the first time you have a proper sponsor :O

i like how you tried to go around my country, yet you still included Lile Rip

1:26 oh, that's the M.2 NVME that i have :D

One of my computers is an intel Xeon based workstation equipped with ecc memory. Csgo / cs2 tends to be a bit slower in every aspect. But very stable without major peaks or drops. On ancient average of 400 ish fps.

a windows dynamic disk stripe set with two modern enterprise drives (i.e. wd hc530, samsung exos) will reach the read/load speeds of a single sata 6gbit/s ssd - around ~500mb/s. placing them in category "A" as well. i have two 14tb wd drives (each with around 250mb/s speed) adding up to 28tb (~25.45tib) and ~500mb/s speeds. it is really a good feeling to be able to put your whole steam, epic, ubi, ea and bnet library on them. and have load times of at least a 2.5" ssd. and to add to that still. it's waaaay cheaper per tb.

That kingston ssd survived a gruesome tiger cat attack

Ive been using an external 2TB Samsung SSD plugged into a type c port and always load in first in every game i play, it never stutters either. Those things are beasts lol and are super handy for multiple computers and/or speedy data recovery.

ever remember nexus nation 1v1 servers yeah i was in one at the time of that video on valve changing to 1v1 warmup good times man

The cat bits are gorgeous.

If you want an easy way to swap NVMe drives easily I recommend getting a PCIe to m.2 riser card and removing the bracket. I am using one right now as I couldn't be bothered to get to the m.2 slot on the motherboard.

For searching for files in your file browser (incredibly useful when producing sample based music in my case) the difference in speed between an ssd and nvme is pretty massive. I do think SSD are so cheap now its probably the best choice for most people but for keeping your windows install on a 500gb $50 nvme is pretty sweet.

In 2004, I bought my first ever USB stick. 128 MB, made by Acer. To this day, I use this stick, and only this USB stick, to update the BIOSes on my computers.

1:00 Pretty accurate, that's why we call them spinning rust ; OTOH I bet we're getting to a point where if you used really high quality SSDs you'd see a very noticeable difference between SATA and NVMe

I really liked this video, feels kinda like quintessential kliksphilip

10:29 hey it's the iPhone 15 data speed!

"Is that the real 3kliks" 2:10 lmfao I was wondering why people were leaving steam comments saying saw me in the 3kliks vid love from texas ❤️

wow that router software is super cool