Caching games

geeza · 8 Apr 2006 at 15:56

Is it possible to cache most or all of a level of a game before playing into the moemory so that no jerkyness appears?

geeza · 8 Apr 2006 at 17:29

geiger said:
If you have enough memory you could create a virtual ramdrive I think, copy the entire game there and it should fly

thanks, how do you do this?

geeza · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:34

dirtydog said:
AFAIK if you have lots of RAM, Windows will automatically cache the game in the RAM once it's been loaded the first time.

thats the problem. the first time its ran is the time when you are playing the game. its not as fun the second time around after you die due to a game lag

eg a tournament i was in playing track mania sunrise (on old computer) i was almost over the finish line for gold on second to last track and it froze for about 2 seconds. when it was normal again I was off the track in the water not being able to get onto the track. at which point I almost threw my monitor out the window and bashed my keyboard several times!

geeza · 9 Apr 2006 at 00:40

Drum said:
Have a look here I think this is what your after

thanks but, 'Virtual Hard Drive supports up to 900MB of RAM' and the unlimieted amount of system ram is for server version only

geeza · 9 Apr 2006 at 11:47

dirtydog said:
Is waiting a few minutes for that to happen, really worth it just to avoid a few minor pauses in game?

not sure if it will happen with my new computer but like i said before

a tournament i was in playing track mania sunrise (on old computer) i was almost over the finish line for gold on second to last track and it froze for about 2 seconds. when it was normal again I was off the track in the water not being able to get onto the track.

so yes, sometimes it is worth it. how much memory is 'lots' i have 2gb and it would be nice to right click the folder of install and set something on the lines of 'use *xxxxx* amount of system memory for this program. Of course its not possible with the likes of fear, oblivion etc as they are over 4gb!

geeza · 10 Apr 2006 at 22:31

^ yeh its not really worth the time but if it took a minute or so to cache say the alpha labs on doom 3 it would be ok.