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    Caching games to RAM 8G?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wicked20, Dec 15, 2011.

  1. wicked20

    wicked20 Notebook Consultant

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    I notice that Windows 7 doesn't really cache games like Batman AC, even though I'm re-launching the same exe (w/o rebooting) and taskmgr shows that the exe only takes up about 1.4GB. Any re-launch of apps seem to take just as long as the first time (w/o rebooting).

    Is there any way to have Windows 7 cache so that apps can re-run directly from RAM (8GB) instead of hdd? What are recommendations to take advantage of 8GB RAM or more when re-running same apps?

    Much thanks.
     
    wicked20, Dec 15, 2011
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  2. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Nothing you can do.

    Just get an SSD
     
    rschauby, Dec 15, 2011
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    key001 Notebook Evangelist

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    You might be better off searching for some RAMdisk/RAMdrive software that would do it for you and supports gigabytes of memory.
     
    key001, Dec 15, 2011
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  4. Fat Dragon

    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    This.

    You'd basically be converting a portion of your RAM into a temporary SSD. I haven't tried it, but from everything I've heard disk access tasks work nearly instantly.
     
    Fat Dragon, Dec 16, 2011
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  5. wicked20

    wicked20 Notebook Consultant

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    This is might be an example of what intelligent caching. I thought someone would at least looked into this before.
    Thanks.

    Speeding up Windows 7 with Cacheman

    Cacheman offers a one-click Auto-Optimize feature which will examine your computer and apply automatically best settings and system tweaks in order to make your computer faster and more stable. You can also speed up your computer for a specific task by selecting individual Auto-Optimization profiles like Gaming Computer or Notebook
     
    wicked20, Dec 16, 2011
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