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#3174148 - 01/07/11 03:00 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: RSColonel_131st]
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Makes no sense. Once the game has textures and data in RAM or VRAM, the speed of the HD should not make such a FPS difference. I love mine for cutting down boot and load times, but if it speeds up your game FPS, that would indicate a serious bottleneck somewhere else (for example too much SWAP file actitivity). Which you don't have, since you have 4GB RAM.
Maybe the reinstall cured something else, better drivers or such? I have seen the same performance increases... I am running SSD's in RAID_0, on an Intel Xeon (8 cores), and 12GB of DDR3. Beta 3 is running REALLY well on this box, and on another box running a Xeon (4 cores) and 8GB of DDR2 and Raptors in RAID_0, it runs consistently at 10-20 fps slower. -Skater
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#3174236 - 01/07/11 04:56 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: SlapStik]
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Skater, what controller card are you using for the RAID 0 setup with the SSDs? An add-in or mobo flavored? Have read about some general problems with setting it up for RAID 0. Is the paging file on the RAID array? TIA for the info.
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#3174647 - 01/08/11 12:09 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: SlapStik]
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I dont think DCS A-10 is using RAM as it should.. I recently upgraded from 4 to 8 Gb of RAM, and it made no difference, went into task manager, and it was only using between 2 to 3 Gb of RAM total running 64bit version.... hence for me, a RAM upgrade has made no difference to DCS A-10.. so an SSD it is next! Which ones are better though, the PCIe or SATA ones ?
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#3175911 - 01/10/11 04:24 AM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: SlapStik]
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Lifer
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I haven't tried the PCIe versions yet, I guess SATA will be more universally compatible. PCIe may make sense when your SATA Controller on board is too slow.
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#3177174 - 01/11/11 05:01 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
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I dont think DCS A-10 is using RAM as it should.. I recently upgraded from 4 to 8 Gb of RAM, and it made no difference, went into task manager, and it was only using between 2 to 3 Gb of RAM total running 64bit version.... hence for me, a RAM upgrade has made no difference to DCS A-10.. so an SSD it is next! Which ones are better though, the PCIe or SATA ones ? So DCS A-10 has a 64GB exe, but doesn't use more than 2GB for the programme? (IIRC, a 32Bit programme can only use 2GB) If the programme uses the 3GB efficiently, it would not show any hard drive activity during the game. Does it? A question to ask Mr. Maddox about his 64Bit exe, if his exe will use all the available RAM.
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#3177363 - 01/11/11 08:49 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: guod]
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Skater, what controller card are you using for the RAID 0 setup with the SSDs? An add-in or mobo flavored? Have read about some general problems with setting it up for RAID 0. Is the paging file on the RAID array? TIA for the info. A cheap Silicon Image Sil3124 based card. It is a PCIe card. I run other HDD RAID config's off of the mobo RAID chipset. No problems whatsoever in setting it up. Has worked flawlessly from day 1. Paging file is on the SSD RAID. -Skater
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#3183420 - 01/19/11 02:28 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
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Actually Guod, a correction:
A page file exists on all of the local drives, SSD RAID 0 and HDD RAID 0, with the exception of two stand-alone drives.
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#3183782 - 01/19/11 11:01 PM
Re: SSD major increase in frame rate
[Re: RSColonel_131st]
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Makes no sense. Once the game has textures and data in RAM or VRAM, the speed of the HD should not make such a FPS difference. I love mine for cutting down boot and load times, but if it speeds up your game FPS, that would indicate a serious bottleneck somewhere else (for example too much SWAP file actitivity). Which you don't have, since you have 4GB RAM.
Maybe the reinstall cured something else, better drivers or such? Lots of people on lock on forums have said they have had an increase by going to SSD also. I'll be doing the same thing when I build my new computer in March/April I hope.
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