There is about 50GB of free space on my 1TB Crucial MX500.I don't see any visible side effects so far... On cheap drives you may experience visible a drop in speed, especially writing, when you pass 80% capacity.
Have You tried what i wrote above?
GT4 US working for me on 1.2.0 beta with mode6 ON (via SMB)...
UPDATE:
If you migrate files from disk to other (under Windows) copy all files "with NTFS permissions"...
For me is much easier than dissasembling older Asus notebooks. Plus there is many teardown videos on YT. Is good to manage all screws not to loose any or confuze. Dropping BR Drive may be a little dangerous becouse some plastics from CD insert mechanism may fall out of place (that was my case)...
After many attempts I solved this strange problem (in my case offcoz). Games is working now with 0.9.3, 1.1.0 and beta 1.2.0 r1917 (last recommended because newest have a issues with many games).
Old 0.8 version save all his data on MC. The new ones use a media source (USB or HDD in the case of...
@gamerman5000 As I mention before i played booth GT4 and Tekken 5 on every OPL versions (including older 1.2.0 betas) until used a some newest betas... for GT4 I`m using MC coz I know VMC not working...
@gamerman5000 yeah, but now I can`t use anythin above version 0.9.1 for that two games. Every time freezing at almost same moment. Plus if you take a look on the pc LAN connector diode you can see that it stops blinking (stop loading).
Maybe i will try to use other Memory card and configure...
I`m using SMB server on mini pc connected by cross cable. All proper modes for my all games are activated. Every games worked great before I used some of latest betas.
There is information on the OPL Loader git weebsite that there is a problems with dvd9 games not solved yet. Latest recomended...
Strange thing is... I have the same problem in GT4 (plus in Tekken 5 game freezing sfter mini game) with lastest few betas. But when I`m trying use older verions (0.93 or 1.1) booth games stuck exactly at the same moments.
Before updating and using latest betas GT4 worked OK, now not working on...
I used Thermal Grizzly's Kryonaut, once (for laptop CPU and GPU). After nearly two years it become dry and fragile. Temperatures went up. Got better results with Arctic MX-4 (maintains same consistency for few years), But for smaller chip surface i prefer latest MX-6 (a little harder to apply...