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 :)