Hopkinsstevea Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 (edited) I just purchased a Rampage IV Black addition Motherboard and am currently waiting for 64 Gb of Gskill DDR3 2400 Ram. The Rampage IV Motherboard has the ability in the UEFI to set up a Ram Disk. I was thinking I would need about 40 GB of Ram Disk for X-plane but in saying that would there actually be any benefit in using a Ram Disk? Edited March 24, 2014 by Hopkinsstevea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggerm Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Most modern flight simulators are not bound to the speed of their storage systems except when it comes time to load a flight. Using a RAM disk might improve scenario loading times, but it won't likely do much to improve actual in-game performance like framerates and smoothness. I believe you would also need to copy your entire X-Plane installation from more traditional storage up into the RAM disk after every reboot, which may end up taking longer than the time you save by using a RAM disk. Heck - give it a shot and report back. I'm just curious what you'll experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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