Running games off RAM

bennyboy2606 · 21 May 2008 at 11:48

Hey, i remember reading a thread a few weeks back on OcUk and it was about some guy buying a new system,but thats a diffrent story. Well he said he was going to buy 8Gb of RAM, and some guy hinted the fact that he should install a game onto his RAM instead of HDD or something..

I was wondering if :

A) Its possible
B) How is it done
C) What are the Pros and Cons

Thanks in advance

Ben

P.S If this isnt possible and i sound crazy someone let me know

oxygene · 21 May 2008 at 11:55

well its impos to install a game directly on to the ram as once the pc shuts off its lost. you can however make a ram disk that you can hard link files to. I asked this exact thing the other day. lemme dig up a link for you!

oxygene · 21 May 2008 at 11:57

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17876800

not a lot in there cept one reply. but that reply I think will help. hard linking files seams the best way round.

As for your question about advantages it does make things run a LOT faster. Maybe noticable for loading times in games. But you would need most of the game files in ramto make it worth while, and most games I own are 6gb+

bennyboy2606 · 21 May 2008 at 12:00

Much appreciated oxygene

most games I own are 6gb+

Get yourself 6Gb + ram then

Finguz · 21 May 2008 at 15:01

oxygene said:
well its impos to install a game directly on to the ram as once the pc shuts off its lost. you can however make a ram disk that you can hard link files to. I asked this exact thing the other day. lemme dig up a link for you!

If you have enough you can install a game directly to ram and have the ramdisk software save the image ( most ramdisk solutions I have tried will do this ) and reload it automatically when the pc restarts

oxygene · 21 May 2008 at 15:31

lol I have 8gb ram

but I want at least 4gb free for games

philds · 22 May 2008 at 08:35

Well you would need a 64bit OS for a start to be able to reference that much memory... just throwing that in to make sure you are aware of it before you even start trying to do this.