how to create and use a ramdisk for gaming

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I have a fairly decent spec PC which I use solely for gaming.

I have read that a ramdisk can significantly increase the FPS performance.

Can anyone help me in how to create a ramdisk, what files/drivers are required, whether I need to implement a drive image or what?

My PC spec is as follows:

OS = windows 10 64bit
CPU = AMD8350 (8 core)
Memory = 24gb DDR3 (2x4gb Mushkin Blackline 1600Mhz + 2x8gb Kingston Fury X 1600Mhz)
GPU = Sapphire NITRO AMD R9 380 Dual X (4gb DDR5)
HDD = 2 x 8GB + 500GB SSHD In RAID 0 stripe format (8GB SSD + 500GB Platter each)

I would be playing DAYZ Standalone on the STEAM platform.

Thank You for any help or directions that anyone can give me.

user566850

Posted 2016-03-04T16:13:19.357

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6Where did you read that. Because it seems strange to me that a ramdisk would increase FPS. It might decrease loading times, and thus make the game faster. But atm I am lost to see how it would increase the framerate. – Hennes – 2016-03-04T16:17:04.067

I am not sure how a ramdisk could increase FPS performance, what would you be using the ramdisk for since it only creates a virtual disk in RAM? – acejavelin – 2016-03-04T18:05:55.837

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This link has people that have tested it. Everything I have read about it says you're not going to get more Frames Per Second by doing this and as the other 2 commenters said. Now if you're talking about improving First Person Shooter performance, yes, this will help to minimize some stuttering while loading the large map from DAYZ. I really doubt will you get any improvement with this if you have RAID 0'd SSD's.

As to why you were downvoted, it happens. This is a community run forum and there could be a lot of reasons. First, read the Help>Asking here, this is not a site about gaming. Maybe if you left out DAYZ, I don't know. And you found a link on how to set it up, so perhaps it was not taking the time to do enough research or creating a generic profile.

Cand3r

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