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Causeican   08-29-2003 at 07:46:39 AM

My first post, after reading for a long time, i finaly decided that i wanted a turn. Ok, now i dont know where to put this, so since its about memory here it is.
Ok, I was wondering about setting up a ram drive, then loading a particular game into the ramdrive before playing it.
eg. 2gb Ram total with:-
-512mb Ram
-1.5gb Ram drive
I was wondering if this would have any preformance advantages. Dont hear much about ram drives these days(i remember the dos manual) has anybody tried this, oh, will windows even let u do this anymore.
Tx guys..



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pIII_Man   08-29-2003 at 05:43:54 PM
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hehe...

whats the point?

when you play a game it gets loaded into the memory anyhow...making a ramdrive would be redundant...

Anyhow if you must know...i do not know of a program that can make a ram drive much bigger than a few Mb's so i dont think it would be possible to make a 512mb ram drive...


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pIII_Man   08-29-2003 at 05:43:54 PM
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double post :frown: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by piii_Man on 08/29/03 11:44 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

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Prof133   08-29-2003 at 07:59:11 PM
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I remember being interested in this subject about a year ago. It led me to <A HREF="http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html" target="_new">SuperSpeed</A>. You've given me an idea. I'm looking to assemble a workstation with Dual Opterons, nForce3-MP chipset motherboard and about 2GB-4GB of memory in early-mid 2004. And if I can use this <i>SuperSpeed</i> software (looks like they have a product targeted at Opteron systems) to increase productivity then that would be great! :D But, whether it would be at all beneficial for playing games, I have no knowledge.

<b><font color=blue>Oh, I can shed light on that ...</font color=blue></b>

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Causeican   09-01-2003 at 04:21:18 AM
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piii - does everything have to have a point, its just causewecan 8)

Good luck Prof..let us know how u go.


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pIII_Man   09-01-2003 at 04:36:20 AM
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not at all...i just found it funny...you would be loading a program to your memory....then when you play the game you would load it again? kinda redundant no?


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gobeavers   09-01-2003 at 05:24:09 AM
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I don't know if this is what your looking for, but a pci card that lets you use RAM as a drive, I think.
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm

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Causeican   09-02-2003 at 06:26:02 AM
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Not exactly, The program is installed into the ram drive. Therefore any disk access that is required should, i thought, be as quick as access to that which is intially loaded into the ram when the program is run. Prehaps this would not speed up ingame preformance, but should it not reduce any load times, for instance between certain levels, or zones in games?


At least the people that supply the windows in your house dont have a key!!

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