pieterbaarlo

Yes and No. Nope it doesnt need to be installed on the drive. However, you do need arma on the SSD. So, a simple copy your ArmA dir to the ssd, and lauch arma from the SSD and youre done. A complete reinstall isnt neccesary. Whats the rest of your specs zoog? and, do you have your OS on the ssd? i have the 120gb OCZ xtreme. it might be nice to do some testing to see the performance difference in reallife benchmarks. Same for you deadeyez! you have an ocz agility, i got the Vertex series. ( http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_vertex_ex_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd ) All these drives have different write speeds. it might be interesting to compare

someone posted an 'addon' version of your gcam in the armaholic comments which is quit handy. great tool gigan!

Computer: Giga-Byte EX58-UD5 CPU: Intel Core i7-920 (Bloomfield, D0) 2666 MHz (20.00x133.3) @ 1619 MHz (12.00x134.9) Motherboard: Giga-Byte GA-EX58-UD5 Chipset: Intel X58 (Tylersburg 36S) + ICH10R Memory: 6144 MBytes @ 539 MHz, 7.0-7-7-19 - 2048 MB PC8500 DDR3 SDRAM - OCZ OCZ3G1333LV2G - 2048 MB PC8500 DDR3 SDRAM - OCZ OCZ3G1333LV2G - 2048 MB PC8500 DDR3 SDRAM - OCZ OCZ3G1333LV2G Graphics: XFX RADEON HD 5770 ATI RADEON HD 5770 (JUNIPER XT), 1024 MB GDDR5 SDRAM Drive: OCZ-VERTEX, 125.0 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s Drive: SAMSUNG HD753LJ, 732.6 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s Drive: SAMSUNG HD154UI, 1465.1 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s Drive: SONY DVD RW DRU-V200S, DVD+R DL Drive: ZOP H27OPMV4H, BD-ROM Sound: Intel ICH10 - High Definition Audio Controller [A0] Sound: ATI Juniper - High Definition Audio Controller OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7600 ---------- Above you see a hwinfo32 systemdump. i just installed the OCZ Vertex (oh boy its friggin fast) and arma2 runs WAAAAAY smoother now. Before this new ssd disk, i runned arma from a ramdisk (4gb) and 2gb for OS. that runned quite smooth, but not on high resolution. i saw 'slow textures' often. Now, i have the full 6gb for the os, and all running from a superfast ssd. ( according to my first few expiriences. ) i will be testing more, and again with a smaller ramdisk for fewer pbo's. i will post some youtube movies later on, but first i have to install the rest of my software office, fraps, cs4 etc... For those interested : my windows performance index Processor : 7.5 Memory : 7.5 Graphics : 7.4 GameGfx : 7.4 Harddisk :7.0 My score is 7.0 out of 7.9 Before the ssd it was 5.9 Arma2mark scores for all 5 tests 26.8338 42.0297 34.5173 46.8567 25.4942 My score 3514.63 i dont know why first test is slow, it stuttered for the first 2 seconds. maybe because i alt-tabbed and started the mission?! BTW: Bangtail, if your 'BLACK' outruns my ssd, i'll post a vid of me eating my shoe.