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Dustin Bailey

Windrose devs issue patch to address fears their open-world pirate game was slowly destroying SSDs

A pirate in Windrose.

A low-key paranoia developed in the Windrose community in the weeks after launch when players discovered that the game was writing a lot to their hard drives. Like, a concerning amount of data. So much data that you might start to fear for your SSD's life. Luckily, the devs have addressed those concerns directly with a patch.

The issues with drive usage have apparently been there since Windrose's April 14 launch, and they were the subject of sporadic posts on the game's Steam forums. It wasn't until some tests from content creator Pixel Operative that the problem really started to gain traction, however.

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