Idea for eliminating FPS drops in arma2

[zaira 10]

I hate stuttering in arma2.

Could anyone with 12/+GB and 64bit OS try to install game on ramdrive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_disk

General concept of this is: u use part of system memory and create virtual hard disk that can be used just as regular hard disk, that is generaly 1000x faster than best SCASI HDD or 30+x faster than best SSD.

Bad side is u will lose data when u restart but u can save image, some comercial programs even have automatic saving of data stored in ram drive.

I tryed that with some smaller games i can fit in my sys mem (only 4GB), most radical improvement was morrowind , game that loaded textures in mem every 100m or so cousing drop in fps to 0 much 2 often. So i installed the game in ramdrive and no loading whatsoever, everything smooth.

Aarma 2 has poor memory menagement, and there are shuttering coused by loading data from hdd to mem.

Could anyone check this for me, even arma2 demo will work (demo has 2.8GB, arma2 like 9) ?

I have only 4GB, so i cant try demo (2.3GB of ram is free on my vista x64 enteprise)

If u are just a gamer and have 12GB of ram, you are wasting ram, you could use as cache.

Check this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XQaxIw5y40

Thera are a lot of programs for instaling ram drive, just google it.

This one has trial http://www.farstone.com/software/virtual-hard-drive.htm

I used this one 2 http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

Pls let me know did u benefit, cos im interesed what my performance will be when i get new system.

Have fun :)

[ArmedAnarkie 0]

Have you experienced stuttering with 1.03 patch? I had one and now don't. Some said deleting config file after 1.03 upgrading removed the stuttering. I had a serious periodic stuttering with 1.03, now I don't have it.

[GunSlingerAUS 10]

I have the game installed on a 128GB SSD, alongside the OS and nothing else. Slight improvement to texture load, but not mind blowing.

[Kenjineering 10]

I have the game installed on a 128GB SSD, alongside the OS and nothing else. Slight improvement to texture load, but not mind blowing.

thanks

[-)rStrangelove 0]

If a part of your ram is acting as a HD you'll end up with the game loaded into your ram 2 times. I can't see where this can be better for performance. :P

[Herr_kalashnikov 10]

Well RAM is cheap and if u have alrdy enough i can't see why u should get worse performance. It's actualy a decent idea to identify the bottleneck in ArmA's performance, although i doubt it is HDD IO speeds.

[zaira 10]

)rStrangelove;1399764']If a part of your ram is acting as a HD you'll end up with the game loaded into your ram 2 times. I can't see where this can be better for performance. :P

You will end up with only a small part of game loaded 2 times. Arma 2 with everything maxed out uses less than 1GB ram (check with task manager).

I know from demo that first time run has more stuttering than second, that implys that hdd is one of things that couses fps drops, and that game has poor mem management.

Ram is cheep, if u have i7 you could get realy nice perf boost for like 200$ (cost of 12GB ddr3), and u can use that for more games and apps than just arma2.

Even if u dont eliminate fps drops, u will get almost instant loading times.

If u have 6GB you can test it with demo. And HDD IO is defenetly one (if not only) reason of fps drops.