Running on Ram

So I just doped $3000 on a custom m17x. I have Skyrim on steam and a regular retail version that my friend gave me. I am running the game at highest possible settings and i have upward of about 145 mods installed on to this game. as you can probably imagine it lags slightly.the maximum the game can run on is 4gb of ram.this is my hassle.

before i bought this laptop i heard that if you have a lot of ram. you can install games directly on to your ram allowing godlike processing of the game and unsurpassed fluidity.

Does anybody know how to do this?

 

Sounds like you want to use a RAM disk?

 

welcome to nbr!

currently having anything over 8gb ram is overkill. even 8gb is overkill in my opinion. sorry you can't install anything on the ram just the hard drive.

when you're running any program/game, it is already loaded onto the memory/ram. having a faster hard drive such as an SSD (which is basically like having ram for a hard drive, there are no moving parts like an HDD) will only shorten the loading time of reading the data off your hard drive and storing it to memory/ram for use.

i'm assuming you should have more than enough ram and already have an ssd since your setup cost 3k. i think you need to delete some mods maybe? start from scratch and reinstall the mods till you can pinpoint the culprit. no matter how great anyone's specs may be, if there's some code error with mods it's gonna lag regardless. i've had similar issues in the past with world of warcraft addons.

i have skyrim too. maxed settings. no mods. runs great.

hope this helps!

 

mine is a hybrid. Thanks, this helps a lot