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I installed Valhalla on my SSD for performance and loading speed and wanted to play today... One small issue though, somehow the animations don't play as they should. Now, I only did the intro so far, but it has bothered me enough to try and fix it. Oddly enough, when it's on my HDD, the animations work completely fine in trade-off for some frame stutters.
What happens (WARNING Spoilers for like... the first minute of the very, very start of a new game):
When Eivor opens the door, a guy is supposed to walk past with a platter and mugs on it, though he isn't holding a platter nor drinks at all. It can pop up after like a second or two though. Now, when Eivor approaches his dad. The game needs a few seconds to start the cutscene, so I can bump into him and when the game realizes it needs to play the cutscene, it teleports Eivor to where the "trigger position" should be. And here's the most annoying/weird part. Eivor's own animations don't play at all! He's just looking around, his body moves a tiny bit, but when he holds up the ring for example, the ring just pops up out of nowhere without Eivor even holding it. And he's looking off to the side.
I reinstalled the game on my HDD to see if that made any difference, and it did. The animations played as they should, and the trigger positions executed immediately as I approached them. In turn, however, I had a few frame drops when looking around and longer load times, I can deal with load times, but the frame drops are an annoyance. And yes, I did verify the files and tried reinstalling it on the SSD, twice, including deleting the entire folder.
Is the game just poorly optimized for SSD's? Am I unlucky with the installs? No other game on that SSD has any issues, everything else works fine. It's only Valhalla that is showing issues.
If it matters, my specs are:
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance LPX on 2400 MHz (Best I could get when I built my PC, still meaning to upgrade)
SSD it was on: M.2 NVmE Samsung 860 EVO
HDD it is on now: Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM. I don't know the exact model, as I scavenged the drives out of an old PC