Yeah, I use the AMD Ramdisk by AMD and Dataram.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/memory/ramdisk
I can't believe I played this game without it. I zone so fast sometimes it is shocking. Load times are nearly non-existent, other than the initial startup one, which goes by pretty fast.
You can trim down your EQ installation for Project 1999 to 2 Gigs or less (think there is a guide around here somewhere, might have to search "EQ Lite" or something), so the free version, which is only 4 gigs of space, will easily fit.
I highly recommend it.