What happens when you turn off a game during the "Do not turn off" warning? This displays when a game is being saved and warns of data corruption. Let's see.

The games and their results

Hades 2 - Result: No data loss.

Still Wakes The Deep - Result: Absolutely fuckaw.

Dread Delusion - Result: Getting very bored of entering my Windows password.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Result: Regret starting this pointless experiment.

Alien: Isolation - Result: Just glad this is over, to be honest.

  • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
    191·
    5 months ago

    Yeah, solid state drives are going to be effectively immune to anything bad happening from powering off.

    If you happen to turn off your computer at the exact moment a game is in the middle of writing a save file to disk, the write will be incomplete and having an SSD won’t make those unwritten bits appear on the disk.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      You’ll have some garbage data, sure, but it won’t fuck up your drive - that’s the difference. A hard disk can fail in so many different ways in comparison, and that’s what the warning is actually for - “unrecoverable” problems with the drive. With a SSD, the worst that happens is you lose your last write. It’s not going to have allocation issues, and isn’t at risk of any physical damage.

      • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Oh yes absolutely, spinny disks can be more temperamental if they lose power, although it’s not super duper common especially nowadays; I’ve been lucky, I think I’ve never had any of mine get borked like that over the past >30y.

        But yeah in comparison incomplete writes on SSD are pretty mild as far as potential problems go, at least on sane file systems