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Akreontage · ‎08-25-2014

Hey mates!
Hope you are doing fine.

For a long time I was hearing from people around the internet how you get instant loading times in games when you have SSDs and stuff.
I was doing some tests with RamDisk recently. And here is the thing:
I don't get impressive results at all. I mean... I don't get ANY results.
Am I doing something wrong?

Tests were done in Skyrim.
Everything (OS and Games) is running on single WD Black 1TB 7200rpm hdd.
http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=792&language=1

I don't have any problems with loading times on hdd. Usually it takes 8-12 seconds to load the game.

But running it from RamDisk gave me absolutely the identical results.

Here is what I did:
1. Installed ImDisk and created 16Gb ramdisk partition.
2. Created Steam library on it.
3. Installed Skyrim onto ram disk.
4. No profit?

Why is that?

--HD-- · ‎08-29-2014

I'm not familiar with "ImDisk" but did you basically create a "RAMdisk" partition on your HDD?

If so: creating a partition on HDD will not change its write/read speed so the actual speed is still same as before. This is sometimes used to compensate lack of RAM Gigabytes although it's a lot slower memory than physical RAM.

On the other hand if you grabbed 16GB out of 32GB of your physical RAM and started using it as Hard Drive then I'm surprised with the results.

Akreontage · ‎08-30-2014

Yeah. I did partition in Ram. That's why I created this topic...

P.S. My page file is also off. If that matters somehow.
Hope somebody can tell me something useful!

RAMDisk. No improve in loading times?