Elite on Ram disk

preynolds2

P
Would putting this game on a ram disk help it run
any faster?

I'm not sure .. being an online game.. etc.

And have never used ram disk either.
 

Lost Cipher

L
In the final release it should increase the loading time for Offline gameplay. In regards to Online, I am not really sure how much of an improvement it would lead too, though in principle it should help.
 

MajorEpeen

MajorEpeen
The only advantage to running any program on a RAMDisk is loading times.

Being as I see no difference running the game on my SSD RAID 0 array (approx 1GB/s) and running the game on my mechanical RAID 0 array (approx 500MB/s) I suspect that I would also see no difference running the game on a RAMDisk (approx 10GB/s).

The only time you would notice a difference is in programs and games that have very long load times and have high disk usage. Most of the delay in ED comes from the network side not the disk side.
 

Styggron

S
There is definitely a SP offline mode as there are several proponents of this mode since the KS started myself included.

There are several advantages to SP offline and depending on your point of view, perhaps some disadvantages. ;)
 

TheDoctor

TheDoctor
As said before an SSD drive is fast enough to run the game.

Also using a Ramdisc would mean that you would have to download the 1-2 gigs of the game into the Ram beofre running which would mean however long that would take to do so.

The advent of SSD and in now very large sizes coming means that ramdiscs have now more specialist use and I only use magnetic HDD's now for long term backup, everything is run off a pair of SSD's 480 gig for windows and 240 gig for linux.
 

MajorEpeen

MajorEpeen
TheDoctor said:
As said before an SSD drive is fast enough to run the game.

Also using a Ramdisc would mean that you would have to download the 1-2 gigs of the game into the Ram beofre running which would mean however long that would take to do so.

The advent of SSD and in now very large sizes coming means that ramdiscs have now more specialist use and I only use magnetic HDD's now for long term backup, everything is run off a pair of SSD's 480 gig for windows and 240 gig for linux.
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I approximate that copying the game to a RAMDisk would take between 2 and 10 seconds depending on how your HDD's are configured.
 

Morbad

Morbad
I run Elite: Dangerous off a 3GiB RAMdrive.

It's not really perceptibly faster than even a mechanical HDD. The game is very small, and rarely seems to access the drive at all, beyond initial load up, which seems to be limited by server side factors.
 

godzilla

G
Here's a handy guide:

1 Boot into Workbench.
2Gzm1VW.jpg


srFk23C.jpg


2 Insert the Elite disk into any drive and open the disk folder and the RAM disk folder.
NYqLRBM.jpg


3 Drag the Frontier icon into the RAM disk folder
Vwfpyex.jpg

This might take a few minutes.

4 Run Frontier from the RAM disk folder.
vmYywn5.jpg


5 Success!
oLoLwtZ.jpg

:p
 

Masta Squidge

M
godzilla said:
Here's a handy guide:

1 Boot into Workbench.
http://i.imgur.com/2Gzm1VW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/srFk23C.jpg

2 Insert the Elite disk into any drive and open the disk folder and the RAM disk folder.
http://i.imgur.com/NYqLRBM.jpg

3 Drag the Frontier icon into the RAM disk folder
http://i.imgur.com/Vwfpyex.jpg
This might take a few minutes.

4 Run Frontier from the RAM disk folder.
http://i.imgur.com/vmYywn5.jpg

5 Success!
http://i.imgur.com/oLoLwtZ.jpg

:p
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I lold so hard at this post that I bumped it.
 

Daisuke-kun

Daisuke-kun
There are already benchmark on regard to RAMdisk and SSD and the performance is the same. Make use of that RAM slot for RAM instead. lol
 
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