alpharesearch 10 Posted July 12, 2009 I have winxp home with 3.5 GB RAM and a GTX260 with 900MB RAM... if I play campaign (Manhattan for example) my FPS (fraps) ~22 and the HD is on all the time... if I just play the FPS like 50... every thing is on very high all the time. To me it looks like maybe a raid system would improve the situation. I guess I would need to upgrade xp home to pro to get raid 0... it would be possible. Can some one confirm my thoughts? Is this true or not? Is there any other way like a large RAM HD caching program like DOS/win 3.1 smartdrive... does anybody know anything about such a program? Thanks, Markus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alpharesearch 10 Posted July 15, 2009 Is nobody using a raid system here, I can't belief it... Regards, Markus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldogs 10 Posted July 15, 2009 I've run it under Raid 0 and haven't noticed any difference but I don't have a bottleneck on the CPU (hard drive doesn't read often) Try loading Arma 2 with -maxmem=2047, to make sure it's using the full allowed memory amount, and other than that, if you're drive is defragged and isn't too overloaded with junk then you shouldn't be getting a bottleneck there. A better solution than Raid 0 may be to get a second drive for storage and keep your games drive with only games/operating system on it. XP doesn't like running on a cluttered hard drive, even when it's completely defragged, especially if it's a large drive or a drive with many partitions (especially cheaper IDE drives) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
volkov956 0 Posted July 15, 2009 I am running raid 0 with 4 drives does help the HDD thrashing but doesnt help Texture Pop Lod or the general performance as much And yes it hardware raid not software raid so it has its own Cache and PROC instead of 100% stealing from CPU in system Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-s!Gm4- 10 Posted July 15, 2009 For my part: I _imagine_ after installing Raid0 the stuttering lessened a bit. But as I said this could be pure imagination. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richieb0y 0 Posted July 15, 2009 For my part: I _imagine_ after installing Raid0 the stuttering lessened a bit.But as I said this could be pure imagination. i can back up that im on raid 0 now but i dont get more frames Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
