Enable Virual Cache

mnh

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Virtual cache sounds a lot like a memory/time tradeoff, i.e. frequently used data is kept in memory, rather than discarded and reloaded on demand. Just a guess, though.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Aussiedroid said:
Where did you see this?

Never noticed it...
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Oh it's in Options on the login menu.

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I haven't noticed much RAM or disk usage difference either enabled or off - which is why I wondered what it does exactly.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Asp Explorer said:
Oh it's in Options on the login menu.

I haven't noticed much RAM or disk usage difference either enabled or off - which is why I wondered what it does exactly.
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If it's virtual memory, writing little used data from memory to a page file, and your machine has enough memory, then even if it's enabled, you may not see any difference as it's not needed. It may also be to help out low end GPU's, and again, if yours isn't one of those then it's not doing anything for you, hence you see no difference.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Faded Glory said:
If it's virtual memory, writing little used data from memory to a page file, and your machine has enough memory, then even if it's enabled, you may not see any difference as it's not needed. It may also be to help out low end GPU's, and again, if yours isn't one of those then it's not doing anything for you, hence you see no difference.
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If it's virtual memory - no .exe on the planet has any right to determine what is put into the pagefile - that is up to the OS itself and the VMM. I just want to know what this setting does - wether it runs a batch to preload files or if it takes advantage of OS virus scanning to keep scanned .exe data in RAM marked as clean, or if it does something else entirely.

With 32Gb - I'm not sure I'll find out for myself, but I am very curious to know - particularly if it borrows any technique or code from anyone elses work.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Asp Explorer said:
If it's virtual memory - no .exe on the planet has any right to determine what is put into the pagefile - that is up to the OS itself and the VMM. I just want to know what this setting does - wether it runs a batch to preload files or if it takes advantage of OS virus scanning to keep scanned .exe data in RAM marked as clean, or if it does something else entirely.

With 32Gb - I'm not sure I'll find out for myself, but I am very curious to know - particularly if it borrows any technique or code from anyone elses work.
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Absolutely right, the OS would determine whether it's needed. Perhaps it's just a flag to tell the OS to use a page file if appropriate. I'm afraid I don't have any inside info into what the setting does. :)
 

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
Nothing in the Manual it seems for this. Had a search and seen this asked a couple times but no-one has an answer.

I am really curious about this now .. especially if it could have any performance benefits.
 

Tiamat

Tiamat
It seems to contain hashes for the game assets so I presume it is to speed up the check for what to download when upgrading.
 
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