X-Plane and Ram Disk

[Hopkinsstevea]

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

[greggerm]

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.