Great news for PS3 owners! The PS3 version of Black Ops 2 will supposedly allow player to install the game’s textures to their HDDs. The news was revealed by Black Ops 2′s game director David “DJ Vahn” Vonderhaar on the Call of Duty forums.
His post is as follows:
This is one the fans having been asking us about demanding for a bit. Black Ops 2 has an option to “Install Textures to HDD.”
When we explained to PS3 folks that installing to the HDD wouldn’t neccessarily give us any significant performance gains, they explained back that the issue is they play so much it puts constant stress on the Blu-ray drive and wears them out.
Roger that.
It’s a non-trivial amount of HDD space to install all the textures. I don’t want to get into exactly numbers because anything can, and does change during development.
You don’t have to install to enjoy the game. We still pre-cache like we did on Black Ops.
David ‘Vahn’ Vonderhaar
I remember Battlefield 3 doing this which worked out great, so having this option in Black Ops 2 is very welcomed. So if you plan to play a lot of Black Ops 2 this and next year then your BluRay drive will have a lot less work to do thanks to this feature.