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    I am intrigued. I bet a startup task like running synctoy to copy the MPQ files every login would work nicely to make it more transparent.

    I wouldn't have thought it would make that big of a difference considering SSDs are already so much faster than HDDs. I'm definitely going to be setting up a ramdisk on my next PC build. What else would I do with the 64GB of ram I was gonna install?

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    Agreed. 64 GB of RAM is a LOT of memory. Unless you are doing a lot of Video, Photo, or 3D animation I don't think a normal user would ever use that much. Hell, even 10-boxing doesn't even come close.


    Perhaps if you tried to do 40...or more clients of a more modern game (WoW is nearly 12 years old as development started around 2000).

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    I did a try.
    I'm mainly 5boxing and i've got 16Go Ram, so i create a Direct IO ramdisk with Primo Standard.
    I move the same MPQ than danji and i create link with :
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\world.MPQ" "Z:\world.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\texture.MPQ" "Z:\texture.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\itemtexture.MPQ" "Z:\itemtexture.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\model.MPQ" "Z:\model.MPQ"

    But i've got some intensive cpu usage the game is far from playable.

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    Last edited by Sam DeathWalker : 09-18-2012 at 11:52 AM

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    I'm the only one with this cpu problem when using ram drive ?

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    Hmm... i wonder if it would load minecraft faster!?

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    This is free:

    http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=356046

    http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk

    Ok I set that one up but I am using a program called Allway Sync to load the wow folder into the ram drive and to save it after each session. The saves are fast as they only save whats changed but loading the whole wow folder (about 28G) into the ram drive takes about 3 to 4 minutes. As others have pointed out you can just put the data files into the ram drive for 99percent of what I get putting the whole folder into the ram.

    This is the code to put into the cmd file to use task to start at startup to make the ram drive each time the computer starts:

    imdisk -a -s 33G -m Z: -p "/fs:ntfs /q /y"

    It makes a 33G ram drive as drive Z.

    Then Allway Sync will copy the wow folder from the hard drive to the ram disk.


    Its hard to give performance specs as my video card (460 2G) is a bottleneck but I sure am not ever going back to not using the ram drive.
    Last edited by Sam DeathWalker : 09-20-2012 at 01:12 PM

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    Seems less cpu intensive with imdisk.
    I'm using that :

    activate.bat
    imdisk -a -s 8G -m X: -p "/fs:ntfs /q /y"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\world.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\texture.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\itemtexture.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\model.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\"
    copy "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\*" "X:\"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\world.MPQ" "X:\world.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\texture.MPQ" "X:\texture.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\itemtexture.MPQ" "X:\itemtexture.MPQ"
    mklink "S:\wow\wow\Data\model.MPQ" "X:\model.MPQ"

    restore.bat
    rm "S:\wow\wow\Data\world.MPQ"
    rm "S:\wow\wow\Data\texture.MPQ"
    rm "S:\wow\wow\Data\itemtexture.MPQ"
    rm "S:\wow\wow\Data\model.MPQ"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\world.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\texture.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\itemtexture.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\"
    move "S:\wow\wow\Data\linkedfiles\model.MPQ" "S:\wow\wow\Data\"
    imdisk -D -m X:

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    Baltyre did it a lot better then I did.

    The only downside of the auto activate and restore (although he might not have it set to auto, he can run his files by clicking the .bat files I think) is that sometimes you want the computer for other things and not wait the few minutes to load the ram drive.

    Also if the activate did not work correctly and the created drive is blank then if you auto restore the ram to the hard drive you could lose all your data, you should have yet a third back up every week or so.

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    I set up Imdisk and used Baltyres Batch files last night, for the 8GB data move. Works well for a 5 man team. Org wasn't crowded enough for real good test. I may try to move a few more files since I also have 24gb of ram but have a little more headroom with a 5 man vs a 10 man team.

    I use a single ssd (intel 520 series) and the file transfer to ram was very short. I'll time it today when I get home.

    Edit: CPU headroom isn't an issue with the hex core i7 980. There wasn't any drastic difference in processor usage afaik.

    Edit II: 11gb of files took 50 seconds on the single sata II ssd.
    Last edited by moosejaw : 09-26-2012 at 04:09 AM
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