RAM (virtual) drives were more common in the past, actually.

The main problem with using a RAM drive for games is that the RAM you assign for the RAM drive is no longer available to system RAM. In other words, if you have 256 megs of RAM and you assign 100 megs for a RAM drive, your system RAM is now down to 156 Megs.

The kinds of games that would benefit from RAM drives are pretty large, too. You need to have enough memory to set aside 400 megs for the RAM drive if you really want to do some good.

You should also remember that newer games are designed to flow the programme into whatever RAM is available to it. If you're stuck in a bygone era of, say, Quake 3 and Windows98, then that's the kind of system that might benefit from a RAM drive...if you have enough RAM for it to be worthwhile.

For what most of us use our computers for every day, a RAM drive is a losing proposition.

<-Has a gig of RAM and probably would still never set up a RAM drive.