- #DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY SOFTWARE#
- #DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY PC#
- #DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY LICENSE#
Mucking up the volumes of your physical disks is not pleasant and I don't want to hear "Waaaaaaah, I'm getting boot errors because I deleted some volume labeled System Reserved". Now, this window is where you want to pay attention and not mess with shit that you should not be messing with. Go to "My Computer" or "Computer" in your Windows Explorer window and rick click -> Manage. Now we're going to make ready the drive for Windows to actually use as a readable disk.Ĥ. Just click Ok, it's trying to load the image that isn't made yet. You'll get a window telling you "Image file load failed, started with an unformatted disk". This is where the data is saved when you stop the RAM drive.Īnyways, click "Start RAMDisk". So, if you have a 2GB RAM drive, you're going to have a 2GB image on your hard drive and a 2GB backup of that image. These backups are going to EACH be the size of the RAM disk drive and there are two of them. This will make your newly created disk persistent and not reset during on/offs. Go to the "Load and Save" tab, tick both check boxes for "Load image at startup" and "Save disk image on shutdown". 8 GB pairs (2x4GB sets) of modern ram is widely available for less than 50 dollars, I highly recommend it.ģ. This means I'd recommend at least 3.5GB of memory (2GB left as actual system memory, 1.5GB for the drive).
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You can get away with less if you really want to, though I don't know about you but I like to alt-tab out and door other stuff while playing sometimes and more free memory is obviously better if you plan on virtually doing anything else with your system while the RAM drive is running. *NOTE* I do recommend not leaving less than 2 GB (2048 MB) free memory at absolute minimum for Windows 7. 1920x1080 screenshots are almost 8 MB a pop. *NOTE* Beware if you plan to run large log files and take screenshots, as they will be saved to this directory as well and inflate your directory size. We will deal with this later when we setup the disk in Windows.
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If you've got the EQ directory down to 1.35 GB, then 1542 MB (1.5 GB) is more than enough with a bit left over for logs / SS - just move them out every once in a while). Under the settings tab, set the disk size appropriately larger (5 or 10% should do) than your trimmed EQ install. msi file and run the RAMDisk configuration utlility.Ģ.
#DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY PC#
And I'm not responsible if you melt your PC trying this.ġ. It should go without saying: Backup all your files. There are other RAM drive sofwares our there with many more options, however, Dataram's is more than sufficient for someone just looking to copy their EQ directory over to.īefore we even get started making the RAM disk, go to the link I previously posted to the EQLite thread and trim down your install.
#DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY LICENSE#
The free license is limited to 4 GB, which is over double what you need for an EQLite stripped EQ install.
#DATARAM RAMDISK CONFIGURATION UTILITY SOFTWARE#
I recommend Dataram RAMDisk software if you're just looking to load up EQ on it.