Ram Disk

[dafier]

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

OK fine I'm trying it, if I never post again there was probably a fatal explosion.

Yo, the difference for me is night and day. And, honestly I don't understand.

AMD 8350 FX
8GB DDR3
2 SSDs (240GB and 480GB)
1 HDD for backup
GTX660 MSI TF

I tried both SSDs which have mid range stats when running AS-SSD. I run around with out lag at all, and ....I am still in awe.

EDIT:

I used the free version and used the max amount of ram which is 4096MB. I did trim my EQ folder down by removing all the zone info that is from Luclin and PoP. Well not all but I went from about 4GB EQ folder to 2.8GB.

Also I am running Win7 x64

[Swish]

It was a bad idea...I don't know what other people are running but if you've got 8GB of RAM and create a 4GB ramdisk, your PC ages about 3 years and can't cope with doing much else lol.

Had the whole "not responding" thing going on a lot of stuff. Black screen, everything seemed to want to shut down.

I'll stick with my ghetto zone loading times.

[dafier]

Unfortunately for me, I have a really nice Heatsink and Fan, but the way my MB is laid out I have to remove 2 of my 4 sticks, or else I would have 16GB.

As for age...I built this PC about 4 or 5 years ago, but updated the CPU and the video card since.

It will play all my games on the highest video settings without issues. Witcher 3 and more.

[Swish]

I'd rather buy a ready built one - that probably upsets some of you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[dafier]

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

I'd rather buy a ready built one - that probably upsets some of you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It doesn't upset me. All sarcasm aside...

When you build your own PC, you learn to use the same amount of money as you would when purchasing a pre-built computer but you get better items, therefore in the end you get a better computer.

It turns in to an obsession and becomes a hobby. Being content with buying a pre-built PC is just fine. Throughout the years large manufactures have become better at building PCs for the public. They are less expensive and you get fairly decent items (video cards, RAM, CPUs and more).

[Thulack]

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

It doesn't upset me. All sarcasm aside...

When you build your own PC, you learn to use the same amount of money as you would when purchasing a pre-built computer but you get better items, therefore in the end you get a better computer.

It turns in to an obsession and becomes a hobby. Being content with buying a pre-built PC is just fine. Throughout the years large manufactures have become better at building PCs for the public. They are less expensive and you get fairly decent items (video cards, RAM, CPUs and more).

It can also be out of necessity. Being a 16 year old kind and having my video card go out i had to scavenge up enough money just to buy a new card. No way in hell i could afford to pay someone to install it. Learned how to install it and setup myself and it went from there. A computer has less then 10 pieces to it. Its not rocket science. Just recently built a $1200 Rig(pcpart*****er.com estimate) for around 900 after finding deals. You would be lucky to find it for under 1500 prebuilt. Saving money can be a nice motivator too.

[Dizey]

I've been using RamDisk for just under a year now on a fairly decent desktop:

i5 2500k
8GB DDR3 1600 (16GB Now)
GTX 560ti
240 GB Crucial M500 SSD
1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD

I previously kept my client on the Crucial M500, but I still had the camera flipping issue, which is supposedly caused by others zoning into your current zone. If you're a bard trying to level up via swarm kiting, that's game breaking. I guess for a wizards and druids trying to quad it could be a pita too. Other than that, it's just super annoying, especially when it makes you double zone. Anyhow, RamDisk fixes that. As for zoning in general, a lot of the time it's instant for me, but there are still several occasions where it takes 10s or more to zone. RamDisk isn't going to completely eliminate zone times, it's going to reduce or eliminate your HDD/SSD as a factor in zone times.

If you want to try it out, and have a 64bit system with 6-8GB, you should be fine, but I wouldn't recommend it on a system with less. Just be wary of how much ram space you're actively/normally using, which you can view via the windows resource monitor. You only need an approximately 2GB RamDisk for P99, so if you observe plenty of headroom, go for it.

To get your P99 EQ Client under 2GB, you just have to create an EQLite version, which will remove anything past Velious, and still leave you room to run the higher res textures. You can find the EQLite instructions here:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=7186

For the RamDisk software, I like Softperfect Ramdisk, which I've linked below. I previously used DataRam's free version, but the new versions limit it to 1GB. Softperfect actually benchmarks significantly higher, it's free, and it comes with no size or feature limitations. The downside is that it's a little more complicated to setup your disk. You have to create the 2048MB NTFS image first, and then add the 2048MB disk that uses it.

https://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

Here is somewhat of a tutorial on setting up the Softperfect RamDisk. You can also view their online manual from the link above as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_R2uyuqVxw

[Dizey]

Another very useful tool:

http://www.pcpartpicker.com