Does it matter if <insert favourite game here> is installed on a 5400rpm drive, so long as Virtual Mem is on a 7200?

[Noriaki]

If all my games and stuff are installed on a 5400rpm drive, but my Virtual memory is on a different disk @ 7200rpm will it make any difference to the game performance? (discluding load time, I'm talking frame rates here)

 

[OS]

if you have enough ram (IE no swapping), hard drive speed will have no effect on framerates once the game is loaded.

 

[Modus]

Right. HD speed will really only affect load times, save times, and transitions from one scene/level/map/scenario to another.

Modus

 

[BFG10K]

486dx2/66, 8MB EDORAM,

That's not enough to run any sort of proper game anyway! You're going to be too CPU limited to be worried about whether you are using a 5400 or 7200 rpm HD for the swap file.

 

[Noriaki]

So you're saying I probably shouldn't put an IBM75GXP in my 486?

Mebbe I should upgrade to one o' them Pentium200s with M M X technologies..those guys in the bright suits are purty cool lookin'

 

[dawks]

Thats not even funny.

 

[urbantechie]

lol.

BFG10K: nm

 

[urbantechie]

Noriaki: I have a AMD166 if you want it. Shoudn't that 486 be smkoking in Doom?