- #PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK INSTALL#
- #PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK FULL#
- #PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK SOFTWARE#
- #PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK CODE#
#PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK FULL#
4GB would be useless, because you couldn't fit the entire installation on it and if you didn't use a full install, it would be accessing the DVD for that data making the parts you use the RAM drive for entirely offset by the slow Optical Drive access times. using Crysis as an Example, that's a little under 8GB of Data you would need which means you would need at least a 8GB RAM Drive. You cannot only put a part of it on there because you would need to move the entire installation folder over. from Disk, were on said RAM drive.įirst, you need ALL that data to be on the RAM drive. The only gain would be if the Actual Data that said application loads for example, levels, textures, etc. The executable data for a game or program is never large enough for this to matter in terms of RAMDrive Access speed.
#PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK CODE#
What this means is that pages of virtual memory are allocated, and as code and data is accessed in the executable, that data is read from disk. A Virtual Address space is reserved and the Executable is memory mapped into the address space. When an Executable is loaded, the entire file is not read and mapped into memory at once. The only benefit you get from a RAM drive is that code and data segments load from the Executable and any Libraries it uses, except for Windows Libraries. In fact it ought to be storing most of it's persistent data on the hard drive. if you change configuration options, That application better be saving it's configuration onto the hard drive.
#PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK INSTALL#
In terms of Running Programs off an SSD, this means that you will usually need to install or at least copy the installation of the program from a hard disk before you run it from the RAM Drive. No backups, no recovery- they just dribble away. The first is that a RAM drive will always be blank when you create it by definition and the second is that everything on a RAM drive is lost the second power is cut from the system. Well, first, you've got two huge problems. Using a RAM Drive helped remove any I/O bottleneck from the system. Floppy's were the vogue and floppies are slow next was Hard disks which were expensive and though much faster than a floppy still slow. VDISK.SYS could be used to turn part of that memory into a RAM Drive. Most applications used maybe 100K of Conventional Memory. When were RAMDisk's Viable? Back with the XT and Early AT PCs. Just with AMD's name (seal of approval) on it.
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Its too bad that the games that really need the RAMDisk for speed 99% of them wont fit within 4GB so I haven't been able to use my 4GB RAMDisk as much as I would like to for gaming. *Personally my new build with 8GB RAM has plenty of memory even if a 4GB block of the 8GB is allocated for RAMDisk with just 4GB of DDR3 left for Windows 7 64-bit and games etc. Had it been AMD's creation, I probably would have picked it up to check out its features and save it for 4 or 5 years from now when I can afford, as well as make use of a system with greater than 64GB of RAM to allocate a large chunk of it to RAMDisk purpose and have games that load in say 1 second vs 10 seconds etc. Had I had a system with more than 64GB of RAM, then it would be a sweet deal, but with only 8GB of RAM, I am going to continue to use the free version with limit of 4GB RAMDisk allocation size a little longer. But my most powerful system only has 8GB of RAM, so I decided not to buy it because its not a completely different RAMDisk software, its the same as DataRam's RAMDisk, just unlocked or a different version to support creating RAMDisks up to 64GB in size.
#PC BATTLEFIELD 4+RAMDISK SOFTWARE#
I have already used the RAMDisk software from DataRam, the free version with a 4GB limitation, and its really sweet in how fast anything in this RAMDisk can Read/Write. To my surprise AMD is promoting software written by DataRam. I thought that AMD created their own RAMDisk from scratch and was going to buy it to try it out, but first decided to check it out and look to see what google had on it as to if it was good or junk software with problems, since AMD has versions for 4GB, 6GB, 32GB, and 64GB RAMDisk creation. Was looking at labor day deals on newegg and this AMD Radeon 64GB RAMDisk got my attention.