Nate--IRL-- Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 What do you mean by using "a RAMDisk" ? If you have 16+ GB of RAM could you set that up as almost a temporary HD? If so, would DCS load all of it's info for a mission on to that temporary disk? And even if it did, wouldn't it still have to get bits and pieces of information from the regular HD during a mission?, which in some cases can cause the short stutter, ie Explosion sprites, vehicles that haven't been loaded, terrain that hasn't been loaded. Create a 8GB Ramdisk (a Virtual Harddrive in RAM) - copy the DCS folder to it and run it all from RAM. Nate Ka-50 AutoPilot/stabilisation system description and operation by IvanK- Essential Reading
KaspeR32 Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Create a 8GB Ramdisk (a Virtual Harddrive in RAM) - copy the DCS folder to it and run it all from RAM. Nate Oh, well yeah that would be the same thing. haha. Didn't know you can do that. I mean I enjoy having a few games and my OS on the SSD but, I guess that is ONE way of getting around the issue! Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
nowakpl Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 You wouldn't need a ram disk to load the game entirely from ram. Have some app read the game folder (for example md5 checksum generator) - files will stay in cache. But I have never done so and I can't say I saw stuttering in DCS. I have 16GB ram and two 7200rpm disks in raid 1.
Shein Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 I don't think SSD's are worth the cost-Yet. Give it a couple years, they'll go down in price. And up in size.
emenance Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) I for one feel very very lucky to have not skipped out and missed a z68 system running a cache drive. I think its the BEST THING SINCE THE LCD MONITOR! Ram disks first page says.....Using a RAMDISK has a penalty of one CPU core in use due to filesystem and ramdisk overhead. Edited February 22, 2012 by emenance Asus P8Z68-V GEN3/ 2500k 4.4ghz / Corsair 64gb SSD Cache / Corsair 8g 1600 ddr3 / 2 x 320gb RE3 Raid 0 /Corsair 950w/ Zotac 560TI AMP 1gb / Zalman GS1200 case /G940/
blackbelter Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 I don't think SSD's are worth the cost-Yet. Give it a couple years, they'll go down in price. And up in size. I am completely with you on this.
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