RAGE: How to optimise HDD accessing "megatextures"

[shortylickens]

Ramdisk that thing, ram > ssd

You'd need like 32gb to have room for the 12 gigs modern games require plus extra for actually running it.

 

[KeithTalent]

how would that work? would there be 2 steam installs? one on the primary with all the games and a second on the SSD with the select few?

I recently did this. I just copied over the steamapps folder from my old drive to my SSD after installing Steam on the new drive. It will ask you to verify by entering an e-mailed code, since it sees you as on a new PC, but it works fine. Saves you having to re-download the games too.

You can then easily use Steam Mover as indicated below.

KT

 

[Aikouka]

Not unless you have more money then sense. Rage can get by with as little as 2gb of dual channel ram and quadrupling that to 8gb certainly wouldn't require quad channel. At best quad channel might help reduce some texture popping caused by paging the hard drive. Your money would be better spent on a more powerful video card with more vram.

T'was a joke going along with the ramdisk comment.

 

[wuliheron]

T'was a joke going along with the ramdisk comment.

The id tech 5 is so different from other engines and so widely misunderstood its hard to tell when people are joking.

 

[PrayForDeath]

I know some guys who keep their favorite one or two games on a small cheap SSD.

That's what I do. Currently it's Skyrim, and loading times are near instant when I enter/exit houses or caves. It's awesome.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

SSDs are so good for game loading times, I have a 120Gb OCZ Vertex 3 which is just large enough for an OS install and a bunch of modern games installed, keep all my other media on large/slow 1-2Tb HDDs.

I'll never go back to HDDs for my primary or my games, I just can't stand all those little wait times.