Games Under 8GB

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Hi I'm going to setup an 8GB Ram disk on my pc and was wondering how much better ( if at all ) games would run when installed to it.

So I'm looking for a few up to date games that will up less than 8gb of hard drive space, a tall order I know but any sugestions?
 
my crysis install is only around 6.25gb maybe you could try that would love to know if how that would run on a ram drive

how much ram do you have total and what type and speed is it
 
I'd say you'd have to have 16GB to get the best out of it. It would also be very frustrating to install the game over and over again. As soon as you switch of the PC bye-bye game install.



M.
 
Hi thanks for the answers so far.

To answer some people's question ( I should have said before really ) The machine will have 12GB of ddr3 memory and Im going to be compairing the differance in loading speeds and gaming performance over a SSD drive. As some already said there is likely to be no differance in framerates but it is still something I would like to experiment with.

As said normally when the pc is turned off the ram disk will loose all data. This is obviously not going to be the way I'll be playing games with this new machine. This is nothing more than an experiment for now.

There are ram disk softwares the will dump all the ramdisk data to hard drive on sytem shutdown and replace it on startup. This does make shutdown and startup a longer process.

As 12gb of memory is quite cheap to buy now but there is no need for so much for most people. I just wonder for things like video conversions a ram disk would be a great way to speed up the process.

But for now though GAMES!!
 
Overlord 2
Pretty much every TombRaider
Grid
TDU
Team Fortress 2

Off the top of my head. I still stand by getting more memory as you are forcing hard-disk caching as essentially you will only have 4GB to play with.



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Overlord 2
Pretty much every TombRaider
Grid
TDU
Team Fortress 2

Off the top of my head. I still stand by getting more memory as you are forcing hard-disk caching as essentially you will only have 4GB to play with.



M.
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Yes thats true, though I cant remember where I did see a benchmark with a machine setup with 3gb ram 32-bit and again with 6gb 64-bit. In the end there was very little improvement with the 6gb x64. I think it was more of test between 32 and 64 bit but the fact that 6gb made no differance either was interesting
 
I do the very same with a RAMdisk, Company of heroes works well, STALKER is great, even COD 4 and 5 fit. I do vary my disk size, so its hard to say def which games fit. Most of my other games are on steam!

Its well worth doing. I can confirm what Bledd states, it only loads games a lot quicker. Handy for class based games with restricted slots.

Make sure you have a nice speedy hard disk to load the image too and from. It takes less than a min for me to load an image.
 
I should also mention that doing this on Vista x64 with Superfetch running would be pointless as well as it's pretty much doing what you want.

Hence the longer load times on startup.


M.
 
Well Splattered said:
I do the very same with a RAMdisk, Company of heroes works well, STALKER is great, even COD 4 and 5 fit. I do vary my disk size, so its hard to say def which games fit. Most of my other games are on steam!

Its well worth doing. I can confirm what Bledd states, it only loads games a lot quicker. Handy for class based games with restricted slots.

Make sure you have a nice speedy hard disk to load the image too and from. It takes less than a min for me to load an image.
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That sounds great! I can't wait to give it a try now. Got to wait till wednesday for all my parts to arrive. I've ordered 2 128Corsair ssd drive that I'll raid so image loading should be quick. I'll let you know how it goes when its all built
 
m4cc45 said:
I'd say you'd have to have 16GB to get the best out of it. It would also be very frustrating to install the game over and over again. As soon as you switch of the PC bye-bye game install.
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Killerkebab said:
A waste imo, if it is truly on the RAM it will disappear as soon as you turn the computer off. Hell you've got an SSD!
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Quoted purely because I have to correct you.

If you use a RAMdisk from either cenetek or superspeed you have the option of saving the contents of the drive as an image. You then have the option of loading this image on start up (before you enter you userid and password) or manaully from within windows. This is useful as you do not lose the contents of the drive and you can swap between games on the fly simply by reloading a different image.

Please equaint yourself with the demo software from either manufacture.

Edit: Battlefield2 is 2gb installed, STALKER is 5.58gb installed, Flatout and Flatout 2 together weigh in at 4gb. COD4 is 6.51gb Farcry2 is 3.66gb installed. Enjoy the quick loading times on these!
 
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