g2tegls

Do you have one? What is it specifically good for and what's a good way to make one? I have 1024MB of ram and wondering if it'll help my Counter Strike to put the game on a RAM drive. :dunno:

clickwir

I have a 64mb ram drive.... i never use it. My hard drive is fast enough that I don't really need it. I found this 64mb one as a free "driver" thing... there's a pay for version that lets you get more room... but I can't really see needing it.

So.Cal_INTEGRA

Wtf is a ram drive? How i know it is RAM is memory that lets you run multiple programs.

brtecson

Thats to rich for my blood. The only time I ever saw something like that was on that one supercomputer that cost $15k that was posted on here. Is that the way of the future?? RAM drives??

Baget

whats your fps right now?

i'm running a 1.0 with a gf4 and a gig of SD ram and i get 100fps in 1280x1024

cs is basically graphix card thats all it woudlnt' make a big difference

George Knighton

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.

George Knighton

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flipped cracka

if you have a gig of ram, i don't see a need for a ram drive.

g2tegls

actually i get crappy fps and lots of choke. I have a pretty decent system but a rad 9000 pro 128MB. I'm thinking I might spring for a 9600XT when I have the money.
that's very helpful. thank you.

I was thinking the opposite, I have all of this extra ram so maybe I could use it to my advantage. But if it won't really help then I won't worry about it.