Hello, I wanna learn more about ramdisks for storing games. I play Fallout: New Vegas heavily modded and wanted to store the main game textures on one. That's about 2GBs and I have a total of 16GBs of RAM. But, I heard your RAM disk deletes files when shutting down. Does that mean I lose my textures? Or do I just have to allocate them again?
RAM disks are temporary storage and lose any content stored on them when power is lost.
And I don't get why you want to store game textures on a RAM drive in the first place, are you trying to speed something up? Because storing games on fast media isn't going to do anything but make the load times less.
Most RAMDisk software allows you to write and restore the contents on boot/shutdown.
Fallout should be storing those textures in memory and vram already, if you have the space available. I remember doing a quick mod at one point to modify a gamebryo game to use 4gb or some larger amount of memory after adding some stupidly large texture mods.
Oh, I do have large address aware, but I want some textures to load faster for an area. I have a flora mod that takes longest to load.
I'd just invest in faster storage medium. Get some fast mechanical drives (ST1000DM003) and put them in RAID0 or get a SSD.
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