RAM Disk

[mohawk]

Not really a cheat but could give an advantage...

Is there any way to force BF1943 to look to a specific location for the map files? What I'm thinking of is setting up a RAM disk, copy the maps (and texture files?) to the RAM disk and then when the game runs it will take the files off the RAM disk instead of the hard disk. This should mean that you would be first to appear on a new map and you can then have the pick of the goodies!!!

Any suggestions?

[BoNeZ]

1943?? ROFLMFAO!!!

[Waffle]

Hmm never heard of such a thing i would still have to load the maps u would have to play around with the registry it would be very difficult.

[MozartMcLaus]

It shouldnt help you much since todays disks achieve 30 MB/s - fairly enough for load 50 MB map file in 2 secs into the memory. Processing speed is the problem - not the loading speed. Battlefield not only load raw data from the mapfile. It processes it, allocates memory segments, recalculates textures, build geometry and so on... Im sure you need faster cpu with fast ram. How about scandisk and more RAM (1024) so that you can turn off swap file?

edit: if you have 512 MB or less, reallocation to/from swapfile take quile long time during new map starts (since bf1942 reloads its process completely)

[mohawk]

Thanks for the replys... I was thinking about increasing the memory to 1GB anyway. I will try this first.

Thanks all....:classic:

[mohawk]

Wow, BF1943????? What a noob...

[Onyx_69]

it won't fit m8, Ram Disk only allows you to hold 50 MB's the most and with textures and maps there is no way it's gonna fit there

[Grahf]

The funny thing is that it's not really "1942".

STG44 in 1942?? Battle of Berlin in 1942??
And also, every Japanese soldier has an STG44??

More like BS1942.

[n00b134NooB]

mohawk...
"Any suggestions?"

Well, if price isn't a concern, then there's always Cenatek's products... You should be able to generate a sufficient Ramdisk with their software release as well, however, this'd definately need be done through extended memory, or you'd constrain driver resources too severely...
-Probably should make note here that loading speed, mostly, is dependent on your system speed and memory,
EDIT: NOT the medium to which the game is actually loading from (This is speaking in the case of BF1942, for games in the class of AC2, RamDisks can really help!)..

Bus level RamDisks will give a much better performance yield than Software based, due to the halfed efficiency of system memory durring loads... IE, copy of game data from ram to ram, along with the processor load associated..
-From my experiences... This isn't really worth it, as all I attained was 3/4ths the delay of using a 10k rpm SCSI..

http://www.cenatek.com
-Take a look at the "RocketDrive" series..

[Anach]

*loads entire "bf1943" directory into memory..

:)

[mohawk]

Thanks for all the reply. As you guys post more I am begining to understand what the issues are... I will look into your suggestion!

Ta!

[GagVibration]

I have got an idea - why not try using hard drives in RAID? I use this in my computer, and it seems to load the game much quicker than my friends! :)

Cheers...!