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Windrose developer Kraken Express realized that your PC’s solid-state drive was overworking itself to death on the pirate ship, so the studio has released a new update to give your SSD a chance to finally relax on the deck.
Ship metaphors aside, Eurogamer has reported that Kraken Express dropped a new update for its super-popular pirate sim Windrose on April 30 to address some save-file issues. The problem was that, when the game hit early access on April 14, it was overworking the SSD by writing too much data to the disk. According to TechSpot, Windrose was reading and writing 30MB/s when your character was roaming around, and upwards of 108GB of data per hour during normal play sessions.
If you liken your SSD to any other piece of technology–like a battery in a controller or phone–then the more it’s used, the more wear and tear it experiences until it dies. With the game reading and writing (which essentially is just retrieving and saving) that much data, players worried about the health of their solid-state drives. That worry has been assuaged, though, thanks to Windrose’s latest update, Patch Version: 0.10.0.4.268-9d2ca277.
This update “fixed unnecessary CPU usage on idle servers and clients,” as well
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