I have been doing a load of experiments over some time now, and the last couple of days has verified to me a few things that are fairly annoying.
I have a stupidl;y strict folder policy where everything is in absolutely exactly where I want it, I have my hard drives all seperated, I dont even have more than the one partition on a disk anymore.
Windows is on an SSD, Apps are in D:\Program Files\ and games in D:\Games and my Media Drive is E:\ and misc junk in F:\ and so on... I even have my Torrents in T:\ as well as my NAS rives all very well ordered to an anal point.
my Steam Folder in D:\Games\Steam and what I have done, for my most played games, is added an SSD just for those games. Over time it built up, and now what I have done, is used a pair of 240GB SSDs in RAID and Added that as another steam folder, and now most of my games are installed to that.
The thing is, that I never really noticed any speed increase over using a normal HD to using the SSD and again, no increase with RAIDing a pair ( striped RAID ).
Now, the other day, I bought 32GB of RAM to give my main PC a little catch up with my Server ( 48GB ) and this would allow me to have the most used game permanently setup on a RAMDISK, and I could have a 16GB RAMdisk setup.
Again, after doing all the sillyness of having to reinstall the game, and after playting it for a short while, I noticed that the bloody thing does not load any quicker at all.
Ok, this was on a smaller game I grant you, but thats only because I was limited with my RAMDISK... I set it to 24GB and that gave me just under 8GB of RAM to play with and every single game that I tried out, all did the same thing... Running the game from the HD was the same speed as running it from RAM or from the SSD... If there was any sped improvement, then it was such a tiny amount, that it was not really noticeable at all.
Now, on the Server ( not really serving anything except music through WinAmp when I'm in the computer room ) has a bundle of apps on its RAM disk, such as Office, and a few other apps like Nemo, CuteFTP, and so on, and these do seem to be a tad quicker, nothing special, and again, Im only really wasting RAM to do that, but it seems to me, that games are simply not going to benefit from using anythign faster than a good HD to run them from.
Wondering if anyone has any games that are faster at loading when run from an SSD?
I have a stupidl;y strict folder policy where everything is in absolutely exactly where I want it, I have my hard drives all seperated, I dont even have more than the one partition on a disk anymore.
Windows is on an SSD, Apps are in D:\Program Files\ and games in D:\Games and my Media Drive is E:\ and misc junk in F:\ and so on... I even have my Torrents in T:\ as well as my NAS rives all very well ordered to an anal point.
my Steam Folder in D:\Games\Steam and what I have done, for my most played games, is added an SSD just for those games. Over time it built up, and now what I have done, is used a pair of 240GB SSDs in RAID and Added that as another steam folder, and now most of my games are installed to that.
The thing is, that I never really noticed any speed increase over using a normal HD to using the SSD and again, no increase with RAIDing a pair ( striped RAID ).
Now, the other day, I bought 32GB of RAM to give my main PC a little catch up with my Server ( 48GB ) and this would allow me to have the most used game permanently setup on a RAMDISK, and I could have a 16GB RAMdisk setup.
Again, after doing all the sillyness of having to reinstall the game, and after playting it for a short while, I noticed that the bloody thing does not load any quicker at all.
Ok, this was on a smaller game I grant you, but thats only because I was limited with my RAMDISK... I set it to 24GB and that gave me just under 8GB of RAM to play with and every single game that I tried out, all did the same thing... Running the game from the HD was the same speed as running it from RAM or from the SSD... If there was any sped improvement, then it was such a tiny amount, that it was not really noticeable at all.
Now, on the Server ( not really serving anything except music through WinAmp when I'm in the computer room ) has a bundle of apps on its RAM disk, such as Office, and a few other apps like Nemo, CuteFTP, and so on, and these do seem to be a tad quicker, nothing special, and again, Im only really wasting RAM to do that, but it seems to me, that games are simply not going to benefit from using anythign faster than a good HD to run them from.
Wondering if anyone has any games that are faster at loading when run from an SSD?