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ShadowRat
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Posted - 2009.01.17 11:05:00 -
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Hello
This is little tutorial have to improve your eve smooth play experience.
Low cost and I think universal.
For who?
- from some memory limitations at 32bit windows xp and vista (up to 4GB RAM, but in reality up to 3GB RAM) I suggest use this for classical client.
- for ppl that have big issues with changing sessions (log in , undocking, gates, blobs, jita etc)
- and any situation that Eve-client load a lot of data from hdd.
How to:
Buy at last 3GB of RAM!!! - RAM nowadays is really cheep, so it is low and easiest way to improve your PC.
-We instal ramdrive for xp - FREE and that could use more then free of use microsoft driver (up to 64Mb of RAM :) So to avoid long searches at web try:
www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/27/free-ramdisk-for-windows-vista-xp-2000-and-2003-server/
-Download and set it 2GB of RAM.
-Now copy all eve directory here (my classic eve client is about 1.6GB)... and start play from here :)
-After finish you dont need to do anything. All your local files are stored in diferent location. After PC reboot copy eve directory again.
Easy? :D
Another solutions:
At my research there is plenty of hardware solutions to improve data read from hdd.
BUT ALMOST ALL ARE SO EXPENSIVE.
If you interested try IMHO good solution SDD RAM BASED from acard
http://www.acard.com.tw/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_title=%20Solid%20State%20Drive&type1_idno=13
Future:
- vista 64bit and new hardware(mainboards) can use more then 4GB of RAM. So new cooming premium clients will be ok. (or try e.g. Ubuntu and linux ramdrive)
Enjoy :D as I enjoy this !!!
This is really new experience
Have nice day
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fuxinos
Caldari
Guys 0f Sarcasm
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Posted - 2009.01.17 11:32:00 -
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for me its sufficient enough to only cache the settings/cache folder of eve.
Only Heavy HD-Access is when i click portraits then (yep, disk is defragged aswell).
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ShadowRat
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Posted - 2009.01.17 12:27:00 -
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For you :) but there is plenty of ppl that have little problems here or there with making eve play fast and smooth. My experiences with eve clients are form PIII 700Mhz (yea fight around 2-4 fps) to athlon 3Ghz ... Now I play at P4 2.8GHz with 10MBit connection.
Belive me there are always some fields that you can improve :).
I have good fps (for me), great connection but some aspect of eve are still laggy.
Try use this tutorial .. and you will be know difference :D
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Ki Tarra
Caldari
Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.17 16:24:00 -
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That will probably make performance worse rather than better.
Currently, XP/Vista will use excess memory to cache files.
Options
1) Let Eve use as much memory as it wants, then let the OS cache the files that you are actually using.
2) Steal memory from Eve and the OS to cache files that you aren't using often. Duplicating the efforts of the OS in caching the files, and effectively wasting memory.
The Eve client is not particulary disc intensive. Unless you have the details of significant profiling that you have done to show that a RAM disc actually improves performance, I wouldn't buy into it.
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ShadowRat
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Posted - 2009.01.17 17:53:00 -
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Have you even try it?
It is easy to check .. next fly to jita or check how fast market open or just jumpgate...
If you dont 'feel' diference :) yo just lucky...
Memory usage by eve dont have issues here...
GPU or CPU, internet connection too. Only trick here is that when eve-client need extra data from its files they allready have it in RAM. So you just dont wait to long and your PC do it job more smoother.
And again :) try it at last.Then we talk about how space can be beauty full.
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Ki Tarra
Caldari
Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.17 19:49:00 -
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Edited by: Ki Tarra on 17/01/2009 19:49:27
Did I try loading Eve on to a RAMdisk: no.
Would I install an unsigned driver from a questionable source: of course not!
Did I do some profiling of Eve using tools from a trusted source: Yes.
Physical disk usage while loading Jita: Negligable.
Could a RAMdisk improve access to data that is already cached in memory: Not bloody likely!
Find a free/trial RAMdisk for Vista64 from a reputiable source and I might test it. However, I see little need to test the improvement gained when benchmarking shows that there is no impediment to performance in that area.
Using PerfMon, I can see that while starting Eve and logging into Jita, the read queue depth hit an all time high of zero out standing requests: ie because the data was cached by the OS, it did not need to read from the hard drive, so the computer never had any requests waiting on the hard drive. Just how is a RAMdisk supposed to decrease my hard drive access below zero?
Mostly I would test it to see how much performance I would lose by trying to use a RAMdisk, because that memory could not be put to better use by either Eve, the OS or any other background tasks.
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ShadowRat
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Posted - 2009.01.17 21:10:00 -
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How I can answer you. :)
1. Software - trust... You can use any software that YOU trust. I dont persuade you or others to use this drivers / software or any piece of hardware that you dont rust. Have you have own? Yes - good :) Try just look at this idea of solving problems. Again use what you want.
2. Vista 64... where I write about it? Different (better that M$ write) memory management - sure . But still dont help in some task (read below)
3. 'Could a RAMdisk improve access to data that is already cached in memory: Not bloody likely!' You have right.. but what just before? When you fly around You never know what you meet at road. OS/Eve mechanism will cache it yes .. but AT THIS VERY MOMENT you are defenceless because you are waiting to cache it. You hit LAG(tm) and loose some mili-seconds.
What you can do to prevent this? Cache all client into memory. This decrease dependance from your hardware enough.
Still no point?
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