Posted August 3, 200816 yr Hey guys is anyone currently running PR on it's own HDD. I've heard that running windows on its own HDD and games on another increases access/loading time speed due to seperate access, ie windows doesnt interfere with game access as not conflicting HHD data access. I am aware from what I've read that PR prefers to run as EA prefers to install ie; main drive paths any one had any issues in relation to this Cheers guys http://matt.itsthemadhouse.com/na/sigs/na-sig-gruanch5.png http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bulletmagnet.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/gren.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/ocrs.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamaserv.jpg
August 3, 200816 yr I run windows on one HDD and games on another. HDD's only have a set read/write speed. If you split the reading between two drives the read times will be shorter. That's the principle behind a raid array. That "PR prefers to run as EA prefers to install" is bull****. Your game will run even if you install it to a flashdrive... it will just be really, really slow. Back when I used to play vanilla I always loaded into the server first cause I had BF2 installed on a raid drive so I always got the jets. That was great... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/US_Army_E-2.svg/50px-US_Army_E-2.svg.png http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4927/awardslf0.png
August 3, 200816 yr Author But does it work without the RAID set up? http://matt.itsthemadhouse.com/na/sigs/na-sig-gruanch5.png http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bulletmagnet.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/gren.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/ocrs.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamaserv.jpg
August 3, 200816 yr Yeah, it works fine. I have windows installed on an 80gb IDE drive and bf2 installed on a 200gb SATA drive. Runs great. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/US_Army_E-2.svg/50px-US_Army_E-2.svg.png http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4927/awardslf0.png
August 3, 200816 yr Author Yeah thats cool, will look into 2x SATAII drives then http://matt.itsthemadhouse.com/na/sigs/na-sig-gruanch5.png http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bulletmagnet.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/gren.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/ocrs.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamaserv.jpg
August 3, 200816 yr Theoretically, if your swapfile is on C: (with windows) and the game is on another drive, then it might load a bit faster if the swapfile is utilised - but if you're playing with enough RAM that that isn't the case (2GB+) then there's probably no difference. I'm running the game installed on D: which is on the same RAID0 set as Windows, and it's **** fast :-) XRogerMellieX: "Fiancee is on night shift and I only see her on weekends. Sunday night is nookie night." Captain_Wolf: "...rgr Mellie..." http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamahons.jpg CO of Combat Sims - realistic combat simulation - Brisbane
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