Second Partition Game Slowdown?

DCB_AU

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Should there be any game performance slowdown if game installed onto another partition("D") on same HD? (OS by itself on its own partition "C")

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MMUK

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it is better disk management especially if u have a lot of memory and ur not using pagefile all the time

each partition will have varying degrees of defragmenting then and u can use different maintanace schedules

plus i find leaving the system boot drive (c:) fairly empty of data increases load times and system performance
 

davemar14

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Put 2x74GB Raptors in RAID 0, and forget about it. LOL. Load times minimal when in RAID. If you have a 1 GB of memory, the game will very rarely access the hard drive during game play, except loading new levels. Therefore, the hard drive will not have a big impact on performance when playing.

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