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[Big Tin Man]

I've been struggling with low-ish framerates, 25-40 fps on low settings, but my GPU and CPU aren't maxed out. Running an install off a usb stick is an old xbox trick to (slightly) improve performance.

Has anyone tried this? Good results, bad, waste of time?

FWIW:

Intel i7 930 (not o/c)
6 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ram
Radeon 5670 HD, 1gb, dx11 capable with latest drivers
evga x58 mobo
hard drive 7200 rpm something (not raid)

Edited by Big Tin Man, 07 April 2014 - 08:22 AM.

[Guardian00]

Almost all usb sticks are slower than a HDD. You can try the CrystalDiskMark from http://sourceforge.j...rystaldiskmark/ to check wich drive is fastest.

Try the game setting to MED at different resolutions, if you leave all in LOW your video card don't "accelerate" resulting in low FPS

Edit: Test CrystalDiskMark using 50 or 100MB option to make it fast (it have 1,000MB by defalut).

Edited by Guardian00, 07 April 2014 - 09:01 AM.

[xWiredx]

Any relatively new internal spinning HDD is going to be faster than a USB 3.0 drive connected to a powered USB 3.0 port.

[ThatBum42]

It will be worse, I assure you. Just because the USB drive is solid state as compared to a hard disk doesn't mean it's faster. The USB interface is much slower than SATA.

Personally, I run MWO off an external Firewire hard disk on my secondary machine. It's an i7-950, GTX 570, 6GB 1600 build, so computational power is not an issue, but it does take ages to load maps. So much so, that sometimes the match has already begun by the time my client gets with the program. However, once everything has loaded in, it runs fine on Very High at about 50 FPS, adaptive vsync.

The reason the game is on that hard disk is because the internal one is only 160GB and 9 years old. I kinda cobbled it together from spare parts. :L

Edited by ThatBum42, 08 April 2014 - 01:18 AM.

[Guardian00]

I use a Windows dynamic disk in RAID 0 with two Barracudas and all games load in few seconds, <5 for the MWO.

[ThatBum42]

Yeah, on my main machine I have two Caviar Black 1TBs in RAID0, similarly fast load times. I'm usually the first to ready up.

[Slab Squathrust]

Guardian00, on 08 April 2014 - 06:43 AM, said:

I use a Windows dynamic disk in RAID 0 with two Barracudas and all games load in few seconds, <5 for the MWO.

Better not store any important data on that setup. One of those drives takes the notorious Seagate poof and all is lost.

[Guardian00]

oooh yes.... It's for entertainment only. For me all HDD brands fail at the same time... when you need it more XP. Where I live the best is Caviar or Barracuda, I have an old Caviar and a Medalist (a pre-barracuda) for 15 years and still working.

Slab Squathrust, on 09 April 2014 - 03:12 PM, said:

Better not store any important data on that setup. One of those drives takes the notorious Seagate poof and all is lost.

[Slab Squathrust]

Guardian00, on 09 April 2014 - 09:26 PM, said:

oooh yes.... It's for entertainment only. For me all HDD brands fail at the same time... when you need it more XP. Where I live the best is Caviar or Barracuda, I have an old Caviar and a Medalist (a pre-barracuda) for 15 years and still working.

I hear you. I actually have had generally good luck with seagates. I have one that is about 6 years old starting to make the click of death. Such is the way of life with hard drives. I have just heard some real horror stories.