Run PR on your RAM

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nicoX
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Run PR on your RAM

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Installing RAM Disk

Information:
RAMDisk is a program that takes a portion of your system memory and uses it as a disk drive. What is the benefit? In a word: SPEED! An additional feature of a RAMDisk is that it will never wear out. You can access it at maximum bandwidth 24/7/365 without fear of mechanical failure, or fragmentation (a RAMDisk can become fragmented just like any other disk, but it does not take a performance hit like a physical disk does when it becomes fragmented). A RAMDisk operating at maximum bandwidth does not produce excessive heat, noise or vibrations.

Most users use RAMDisk to speed up applications like:
  • Databases
  • Internet Explorer and Firefox cache for faster web surfing
  • Audio and Video editing
  • CAD programs
  • Photoshop Scratch Disk
  • Speeding up CD duplication
  • Games
  • SETI processing
  • TEMP files
  • Swap space
  • Web server cache
  • Custom applications with high I/O, high bandwidth, or high security requirements
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LITOralis.nMd
Retired PR Developer
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Joined: 2010-04-10 16:15

Re: Run PR on your RAM

Post by LITOralis.nMd »

You can maybe run PR:BF2 on 16GB of total RAM, but you would need to delete or hardlink a number of vBF2 files using Link Shell Extension.

There are many guides to run Arma2 and mods on Ramdisk... no one has made a tutorial yet on which files form the PR mod files would need to go on the Ramdisk to optimize performance.

a teaser:
ArmA 2 - Max Settings - 10000 view distance using RAMDisk - YouTube
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