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I play a video game guild wars 2 and the exe is 24gigs I don't have the memory to store it in memory I do have a Samsung evo drive but want to be able to load maps faster exspecialy since sometimes I switch between the same 4maps what can I do short of buying another or second ssd
 
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The .dat file is a data file, that your game uses to pull data from as needed. Having more DRAM can help in playing as when you (in the game) move from one area to another the system will hold more data in your DRAM so there will be less calls to the .dat or the page file on the harddrive
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I doubt that the actual .exe is 24gb.
More likely, you are looking at the folder size.
If the game is installed on the ssd, you should be able to load quickly.

What is your ram size?
How large are the maps?
If it is sufficiently large, windows will tend to save your 4 maps in ram.
 
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geofelt

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A game that needs 25gb of ram to hold it will not sell.
Likely, only parts if that file are loaded as needed.
Monitor your hard fault page rate in windows task manager.
If it is over 1 per second, then adding ram sill help.
 
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The .dat file is a data file, that your game uses to pull data from as needed. Having more DRAM can help in playing as when you (in the game) move from one area to another the system will hold more data in your DRAM so there will be less calls to the .dat or the page file on the harddrive
 
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If you have insufficient ram to hold what you need regularly, windows will exchange the contents with that on the page file.
That is not good. That is called a demand page fault. Your game stops dead while that is resolved.
Such a page fault is resolved very quickly on a ssd, 20x slower on a hard drive.
If your ssd is >90% full, it takes longer.
Monitor your page fault rate. If you see > 1 per second you can use more ram.
There is no negative to extra ram; another 8gb can't hurt.

 
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ok well iv already monitored memory faults and it dosnt seem to get to 1 or over 1, so question since the dat file is sop huge 25gigs if I where to use a ram drive would it be beneficial? cause surly the whole .dat isn't loaded at a time on ly one map at aq time seems to be loaded although when I sdwitch back and forth between 2 or 3m,aps a lot wish I could ssomehow load just those but anyways any chance a ram drive would be beneficial?
 
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would getting another 250gb Samsung evo and running in raid be much a benefit? would prefer to find a cheaper alternative don't really wanna spend the money but idk

also is there something that I could monitor the memory faults better with? the one included in windows 10 is small even on large only lets u expand so much and you cannot set the update speed to somtrhin slower thus only being able to look at maybe 30seconds worth of gaming while monitoring

also any cl;ue as to why anytime I type www.tomshardware.com it redirects me to the uk toms hardware site?
 
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