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[SYN_Flashman]

Originally Posted by W0ef

If you dont have a fast HDD but do have 6+ Gig of Ram you can just disable your page file altogether. It´s what I did and it works fine.

Being essentially ignorant on this kind of thing how does a person go about doing this? I have Win7 64bit and 8gb of RAM.

[W0ef]

Originally Posted by SYN_Flashman

Being essentially ignorant on this kind of thing how does a person go about doing this? I have Win7 64bit and 8gb of RAM.

I have to basically do this out the top of my head since the laptop I am has the language set to Portuguese

Warning here though, only do this if you have plenty RAM (in your case this shouldnt be a problem at all). This is of course totally reversible should you not like it after all.

Right here goes:

Go to Control Panel -> System & Security -> System -> Advanced Settings (left side of panel, run as admin) -> Advanced panel -> Go to top tab there and pick definitions -> You will see a tab with three options (Visual Effects, Advanced and one other) -> Pick Advanced -> Virtual Memory -> Change -> Untick the Automatically set the pagefile folder thingy -> Select the No PageFile thingy -> Profit.

Sorry for the somewhat vague walkthrough but it should get you there.

Regards.

[Flanker35M]

S!

I run both SSD and without pagefile. No problems so far. Great testing Gunny. I had no probs with the 3D clocks after I overclocked my card a whopping 5MHz Let's see what the patch will do..

[RE77ACTION]

It's my opinion that the stutters don't come from the HDD (maybe there are exceptions). I've tested the game on a HDD (7200) and on 3 very fast SSD's in a RAID 0 array (which is probably bottlenecked by the controller or bus). It's my experience that it makes totally no difference in stuttering. Thereby I have to say that my stutters are mostly mild.

I agree with TUSA/TX-Gunslinger that it has probably something to do with the code of the game. On the moments that you see a short heavy drop in FPS you see a simultaneous (more or less) drop in CPU utilization. Normally CPU utilization should increase when a game has lots to process.

[Orpheus]

Originally Posted by RE77ACTION

It's my opinion that the stutters don't come from the HDD (maybe there are exceptions). I've tested the game on a HDD (7200) and on 3 very fast SSD's in a RAID 0 array (which is probably bottlenecked by the controller or bus). It's my experience that it makes totally no difference in stuttering. Thereby I have to say that my stutters are mostly mild.

I agree with TUSA/TX-Gunslinger that it has probably something to do with the code of the game. On the moments that you see a short heavy drop in FPS you see a simultaneous (more or less) drop in CPU utilization. Normally CPU utilization should increase when a game has lots to process.

This is interesting. Games that have a lot of stutter often come accompanied by cries to install it to an SSD (which winds me up a bit, frankly lol).

Any graphs or screens that show this effect in action? Obviously you can't show us the stutters, but a CPU monitor shot showing these dropouts could go a long way in helping the devs (or us!) solve the stutter problem?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Orpheus

This is interesting. Games that have a lot of stutter often come accompanied by cries to install it to an SSD (which winds me up a bit, frankly lol).

Any graphs or screens that show this effect in action? Obviously you can't show us the stutters, but a CPU monitor shot showing these dropouts could go a long way in helping the devs (or us!) solve the stutter problem?

I'm not saying you'll get any better frame rates or reduce stuttering in any particular sim, but I doubt I would ever make another PC for myself without a SSD. (until something faster comes out of course )

For me it's worth the extra $150 for the faster system startup and game load times. And I'm not even part of the 'Now' generation. Lifes to short to be waiting around for your PC to start.

Cheers!