View Full Version : 3dmark on a ram drive?
DR. YT
07-16-2003, 02:55 PM
anyone done it. i know with the doom3 demo loading the game on a ram drive helped frame rates dramaticaly.
Kunaak
07-16-2003, 03:20 PM
ram drive?
sandman
07-16-2003, 03:25 PM
Doom3 was also incredibly buggy, and not optimised at all.
But, it might help.
If someone had a gig of ram they could try it.
Dissolved
07-16-2003, 03:30 PM
Originally posted by Kunaak
ram drive?
When you use excess memory or Ram and make it a virtual hardrive. So you can store programs or files in the "ram drive" which will basically have no load times since there in memory.
ALT-F13
07-17-2003, 03:19 AM
hm... interesting idea. too bad i have only 512M.
And even more interesting idea to place PCMark2002 on ram drive to get psycho HDD Score.
Anybody have to try this:) C'mon, i wanna know the results:)
DR. YT
07-17-2003, 06:30 AM
i think pcmark would look for the regular hard drive because window lists the ramdrive as a ramdrive but haveing anything on a ramdrive should in theroy run faster.
and ive got a friend who has 1gig og geil3500 ultra so ill see if i can get him to do it.
SpicyHuevos
07-17-2003, 06:58 AM
Been there and done no change.
If you setup up your pagefile right it wont ever go to hard drive during a bench
DR. YT
07-17-2003, 07:03 AM
hmm any idea why it afects the doom demo and not 3dmark? im guessing that doom3 paged like crazy since its was no where near ready. anyway there goes that idea.
Originally posted by sandman
Doom3 was also incredibly buggy, and not optimised at all.
But, it might help.
If someone had a gig of ram they could try it.
LMAO
Thats funny because it was a leaked Beta
Compare - running it from normal ATA133 drive, max theoretical bandwidth is 133M<Bps but your gonan get no where near that, runninbg from DDR400 max theoretical transfer rate 3.2GBps, anyone here got HyperOS?
ALT-F13
07-17-2003, 12:57 PM
Here is what i've found in "Xtreme Overclocking" forum thread:
stergiopilus
"HDD speed makes absolutely no difference for my 3dmark2001 scores. I tried running 3dmark out of my ram (ramdrive) and there was no improvements in the score over just running it off the hard drive."
That it - the answer we all wanted to see. Maybe, we can close this thread now...
Illicit Tweakin
07-17-2003, 06:28 PM
That was my only disapointment with raid, it did zilch for my 3dmark scores.
sandman
07-19-2003, 09:55 PM
Originally posted by CCW
LMAO
Thats funny because it was a leaked Beta
it was an alpha, but same point ;)
DR. YT
07-19-2003, 11:07 PM
eather way it was one of the most imersive games i ever played and i at wait to see the end result
DR. YT
07-20-2003, 05:52 PM
ok what if you put the whole damnd os and 3d mark on the ramdrive?
shray
07-20-2003, 07:56 PM
err youd need like 3gb ram rofl
DR. YT
07-20-2003, 08:10 PM
for 2k? and i mean just the important parts but im in know way saying this is posible just looking for an awnser.
sandman
07-20-2003, 08:30 PM
I think I could cram it all on 1.5gigs.....