Old games load faster.

So i have searched the web alot for this and couldn't even find anything close to being useful.

I have a bunch of old games i love to play (Deus ex series for example) DX2 for example is a 2003 game. I have a quad core processor with 4 gb of ram and a 9800gx2, for christ sake, could the game not take 30 seconds to load a level???

Is there a way to somewhat pre-cache the game and then play it? or would it require some kind of crazy coded patch thing.

I'm really pissed because the game size unpacked isnt even a GB and i have shittons of RAM/HDD space.

Any clues, gentlemen?

Faster hard drive, HD is the thing that slows any PC up.

well my point is, if i could, i can install the entire game solely on RAM space. there must be some kind a way to speed shit up, i cant believe i need a raptor HD to increase load times of a 6 years old games with pre-historic graphics, jeez

I think there are devices that uses RAM as permanant storage, you plug a in a few RAM sticks and connect it to a SATA port and use it as a mini drive hard drive.
Not sure if there is any other way of increasing the speed it loads obviously your PC is fast enough but let down by Harddrive mechanics lika most PC's these days.

keefy wrote:I think there are devices that uses RAM as permanant storage, you plug a in a few RAM sticks and connect it to a SATA port and use it as a mini drive hard drive.
Not sure if there is any other way of increasing the speed it loads obviously your PC is fast enough but let down by Harddrive mechanics lika most PC's these days.

That's very cool. didn't know you could do that.

keefy wrote:Faster hard drive, HD is the thing that slows any PC up.

I disagree with this a bit. Yes hard drive speed is a factor, but in my experience CPU speed, Cache size can effect load up of programs. However I have seen noticiable differences with greater amounts of ram and believe it or not a huge difference with motherboards.

When I built my computer, I put a Intel 975XBX 2, known on computer sites as a Badaxe2 in there and that was pretty fast. Not long ago I upgraded to an ASUS Rampage Formula MB and holy shit that thing loads windows 2x as fast as the old MB did. I was very surprised/impressed that a MB would make that big of a difference.


Anyway, Conflict, did you try running the game in a compatibility mode for older windows compatible software?

yea i tried, i think i just need some ways to tell the game it can leech as much ressources it needs. since its a 2003 game im pretty sure it wont take over 512mb or some weak stuff by deafault.

Paradox wrote:

keefy wrote:Faster hard drive, HD is the thing that slows any PC up.

I disagree with this a bit. Yes hard drive speed is a factor, but in my experience CPU speed, Cache size can effect load up of programs. However I have seen noticiable differences with greater amounts of ram and believe it or not a huge difference with motherboards.

When I built my computer, I put a Intel 975XBX 2, known on computer sites as a Badaxe2 in there and that was pretty fast. Not long ago I upgraded to an ASUS Rampage Formula MB and holy shit that thing loads windows 2x as fast as the old MB did. I was very surprised/impressed that a MB would make that big of a difference.


Anyway, Conflict, did you try running the game in a compatibility mode for older windows compatible software?

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maybe you could try a ramdisk. Google install ramdisk whatever your OS is.

It probably is your hard drive. I found I had a nice computer but luke with his hunk of crap was beating me into maps. When I upgraded my hard drive to a WD 640 I now beat most people into maps. In a short while SSDs may finally be ready for primetime at affordable prices. For now a reasonable fast HDD like WD 320GB platters and Samsung spin points are fast value drives, you could also spring for a raptor.

The only other option is if you can somehow convince Vista to preload the maps. It works pretty well for regularly used programs. But i do not know if it preloads regularly used files.

If we were talking about a huge program, sure raided SSD would probably make a difference, but we are talking about 512 mb here, which by todays standards is nothing.

I agree with fearsome, RAMDisk will be an easy solution if you have enough space :].

Thank you fearsome that was really helpful, it works like a charm!