So you want to zone faster...

[Versus]

wat^

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Originally Posted by Gwence [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

with x79 platform that has the quad channel memory with most of their boards supporting up to 128 GB of memory, you can run just about every game nowadays right from RAM

the benchmarks are completely insane

The fastest SSD out there might get you 550'ish MB/s on compressed sequential reads and that shit is incredibly fast and best case scenario.

running from a ramdisk on with even 1333Mhz modules boosts that up to almost 5 GIGAbytes / sec

It's completely insane.

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[Arrisard]

Phist, you running Win 7 32 or 64 bit. Also, how much physical memory?

[Rais]

I would think just paying 80 dollars during Black Friday and buying a SSD would solve the problem and headache of dealing with deleting files, swapping making discs ect.

I like my computers to work like my women, hard, easy and at a good price.

[Versus]

Originally Posted by Arrisard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Phist, you running Win 7 32 or 64 bit. Also, how much physical memory?

Win 7 64bit, 4gig of RAM

[Arrisard]

Originally Posted by Versus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Win 7 64bit, 4gig of RAM

Try making a very small disk, like 20 MB or something, see if it you can get it to initialize at all. If it does, depending on your system configuration and what you have running, you might not have enough available memory.

If that doesn't work at all, I'd try uninstalling RAMDisk and reinstalling the *.msi with a right click -> Run as Administrator. Run the configuration tool as an administrator, as well.

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Originally Posted by Arrisard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Try making a very small disk, like 20 MB or something, see if it you can get it to initialize at all. If it does, depending on your system configuration and what you have running, you might not have enough available memory.

It allowed me to create a 20mb disk. How don't I have enough available memory to create a small 2gig disk? The laptop is literally 2 months old.

Also, now how do I delete this pointless/wasted 20mb allocation? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Arrisard]

Carving out half of your total memory for a virtual disk isn't really a "small" thing ;D Windows itself will want almost 600-800 megs alone for day to day usage. Specific system configurations with a lot of pre-installed programs set to start at startup can potentially eat a lot of your available memory in addition to that, which isn't uncommon with a lot of "pre-built" systems. I've seen some factory "back up" programs take up almost a full gig or more(!)

If anyone wants to mess around with trimming their running processes at startup, they do so at their own risk.

Obviously, if you're running anything memory intensive like Photoshop or video editing software, this will have an effect. Hell, just surfing a couple boards and Firefox is at almost 300 megs.

Anyways, to stop and uninstall:

Enter the RAMDisk Configuration, click "Stop RAMDisk" at the bottom. That will stop the disk service and shout make the drive go away.

Delete the "RAMDisk.img" and "RAMDisk.img.bak" in your C:\ drive (if you kept the save/load image location to default). These are where the disk image is stored when not in use, so this is a house keeping measure to delete these.

Uninstall RAMDisk if you plan on never fooling around with it again [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[tarran]

not sure if this has been mentioned

but with this method, if you haven't been able to stop the ramdisk driver

right click the drive in disk management (on the part where it says disk #) and hit offline

u can now stop ramdisk driver