RAM Drive (SDW Bait)

[remanz]

i used RAMDisk(a $10 software) for D3. Allocating 12G as a virtual disk. It performs as expected, fast read and fast write. But not day and night vs current gen SSD. It is a minor improvement if there is any.

however, the cost of having to fallback onto physical hard drive upon machine shut down and reload upon OS startup is too great IMO. My win7 start time went from 7 seconds (without RAMDISK loading stuff) to 1min 45 seconds. and My shut down takes like 10mins.

So in short, I think its worth using only for temp cache stuff (or use as scratch space for some software), where you do not have to copy onto it upon startup or offload it while shutting down.

[MiRai]

i used RAMDisk(a $10 software) for D3. Allocating 12G as a virtual disk. It performs as expected, fast read and fast write. But not day and night vs current gen SSD. It is a minor improvement if there is any.

I wouldn't think that DIII would really benefit from a RAM drive; there's not really a lot of loading going on while playing is there? In real MMOs there is a vast world full of 3D environment/terrain, lots of character textures moving in and out of your camera view including a very large view distance in a 360° radius surrounding your player, and all of this needs to constantly be loaded and unloaded.

I'm not talking about seeing an improvement while walking from Goldshire to the Eastvale Logging Camp, I'm talking about trying to see an improvement in a large scale area with lots of players all in one place at the same time moving around and doing things; and that's why I can agree that it's probably not a big deal and slightly tedious to maintain a RAM drive.

On another note, RAM frequency controls how fast your RAM drive is although I'm not sure the price you pay for higher frequency RAM is really worth the speed increase it brings: