Speed up loading by moving game data to SSD

Will the loading of the game increase if game's data was moved to a SSD?

It will get maybe a little bit faster, but PA is mainly limited by the CPU

not that i noticed.

I've had PA on both but maily on the ssd, didn't change much.

it will dramatically speed up map loading times

*especially if you like to play on more than 1 planet.

Where are the map data, I don't want to move the bulk of the install (using symlink or junctions)

It's will only happen because Coherent will open all views (panels) faster.

PA do not save maps on HDD, they're generated on the fly in lobby and always stay in RAM. E.g when you save system PA only save it's generation settings and not actual geometry data so it's jue few kilobytes of data at most.

Though when you press to "start" a game when map already generated there is some huge UI loading process going in background. All UI files are extremely small, but there is quite a lot of them so SSD speedup startup of 30 UI processes where each load quite a lot of JavaScript/CSS/images.

So where are these UI files located? I don't want other files in my SSD wasting space. (Using symlink/junction)

Mainly in "/media/ui/", but it's also read units blueprints and icons from "/media/pa/" which is largest directory in PA that is 1.4GB

By the way, does planetary annihilation work with symlinks/junction points? (Specifically with steam)

UI isn't part of Planetary Annihilation code and I pretty sure Google Chrome (Coherent UI is based on Chromium) should handle anything pretty well. Though it's always worked for me pretty well on Linux, but no idea about symlinks on Windows.

I am using junctions to mount mods from development directories, they work fine for that

I noticed a pretty big difference.