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Rollaz
AirHogs Zulu People
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Posted - 2014.05.08 22:27:00 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:OP, do you understand how computers work on a technical level or have you just followed some guides and heard some buzzwords? If it's the latter, you are going to struggle and in either case are likely to just be wasting your money. A RAMdisk just means that you can speed up your file IO, as the hard drive doesn't need to fetch data, it can all be grabbed straight from the ram. Now that sounds great and all, but when playing games you are not generally waiting on file IO, you're waiting on the GPU, CPU or paging your ram. Now seeing that you are going to be using the majority of your Ram as a hard drive, that's likely to increase paging, meaning your system will be dumping memory to the hard drive.
What you would be better off doing is to keep the installed game running on your SSD, moving your game cache to the RAMdisk and disabling paging (if you are certain that your aren't going to be running enough applications side by side to exceed your RAM limit).
That said, the chances of you seeing any improvement beyond initial load times and first time caching is slim. It certainly won't help with large scale battles as that's not generally the game waiting on the hard drive.
So that sounds like the direction I can go in...
Now let's see if we can find out WHAT specific folders the game cache for Eve are, and if anyone has done this before, and if there have been issues with upgrades etc, after moving the cache files. |
Brian Harrelstein
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.08 23:12:00 -
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Rollaz wrote:At first, I downloaded the 4 mb EVE installer and dropped it on my ramdisk and the installer complained that it needed 22gb of free space for the install ?!? Last I heard Eve needed 12gb of space, so what's up wit dat CCP?
Download and install files. That means you need twice the amount of space to install it.
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I agree that SSD is the best way to go. |
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
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Posted - 2014.05.08 23:18:00 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:If by ramdisk you mean your comp using your harddrive as a sort of psuedo memory um no that is not ramdisk at all. Not even close. |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.08 23:22:00 -
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Of course the fact that that post was wrong had already been established four months ago. "Pretty much all 14 of the CSM were in favor of a drone assign nerf for OBVIOUS gameplay reasons" - Sala Cameron
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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
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Posted - 2014.05.08 23:28:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Of course the fact that that post was wrong had already been established four months ago. ah true. I read the OP time into the date and thought it was two days old. And there I was all excited FV was back for giggles. meh necrophiliacs and the threads they bump, what can ya do? Oh well, he bumped his own thread anyway, so still fair game. |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.09 02:01:00 -
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Webvan wrote:James Amril-Kesh wrote:Of course the fact that that post was wrong had already been established four months ago. ah true. I read the OP time into the date and thought it was two days old. And there I was all excited FV was back for giggles. meh necrophiliacs and the threads they bump, what can ya do? Oh well, he bumped his own thread anyway, so still fair game. I was tempted to reply to one of the first page posts as well, so I understand. "Pretty much all 14 of the CSM were in favor of a drone assign nerf for OBVIOUS gameplay reasons" - Sala Cameron
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Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
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Posted - 2014.05.09 03:29:00 -
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I still think NCIS was more cringeworthy for its crimes against computing. |
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