System start up and shutdown can be significantly prolonged when you have large RAM disk and automatic save and load disk image function activated.
May require extra hard-drive space to backup saved games depending on game and system configuration. Software is limited to 4 GB RAM disk size unless bought or you find an alternative. Setting the RAM disk too large can cause the system completely slow down. The game itself will still use RAM, just as if you are playing normally. Complicated to set up if entire game does not fit into a RAM disk. Contents of the RAM disk are lost upon a restart of the computer. Easily swap in and out different games by storing the RAM file on the hard drive.ĭisadvantages of using a RAM disk for gaming. Put a part, or a whole game onto your RAM disk, depending on how much you have available. Removes stuttering caused by a slow/fragmented hard drive while playing. Substantially speeds up how fast a game can load. 2.5.2.1 Identify and copy commonly accessed game filesĬonsiderations Advantages of using a RAM disk for gaming. 2.3 Step 2 - What's the size of the game?. 2.2 Step 1 - How much spare RAM is there?. 1.2 Disadvantages of using a RAM disk for gaming. 1.1 Advantages of using a RAM disk for gaming. Turn on your virtual machine it should now be booting and running from memory. Copy the vhd/vdi file to the RAM drive and make the appropriate mappings in your virtualization software.ĥ. (Remember that the RAM disk size is limited to the amount of free RAM on your PC)Ĥ. Create a RAM disk that is large enough to fit the vhd/vdi file of the virtual machine. I found “ Softperfect Ramdisk“, “ VSuite Ramdisk” and “ Dataram RAMDisk” to be quite nice, but anyone should do fine.ģ. A list of RAMDisk creators can be found here. Create a virtual machine and install the OS you want to run from the RAM disk.Ģ. (SPOILER: It would be blazingly fast!) To test this out, I created a RAM disk and placed a virtual machine’s hard drive (vhd/vdi file) on that RAM disk using the method outlined below:ġ. (HDD is the slowest) Imagine what could happen if you would use the system’s RAM instead of HDD to store and load applications and files. Now to the fun part!! Apart from built-in CPU cache, RAM is the fastest memory in a PC. There are enterprise grade disks that spin twice as fast and if built in a large RAID array they provide good balance between performance/storage capacity and price.) RAM disk experiment 
(Disclaimer, my HDD’s spin at 7200 RPM and are of consumer grade and also quite old. Clearly, SSD’s are way faster than HDD’s even if two HDD’s are used in a RAID.
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