Yo.
I've been away of Alleg since I got 'downgraded' to an old workstation (750MHz Duron with a 64MB video card, it runs but not really smooth). But, since I hope I'll be able to put my hands on some SDRAMs I was wondering: how much use does Allegiance of harddisk reading/writting? I thought about placing Alleg on a RAM drive, with a mirror on the HD to copy it there before running it, tho if Alleg is loading data (like textures) only once, at startup, it would be faster only when the game starts.
So, would it be really worth setting up a RAM drive for Alleg?
Alleg on RAM drive?
I'd say your box has about 3-5 times as much oomph as is strictly necessary for Allegiance. I've been able to play Alleg with less than that (32MB Matrox card, for crissakes) at 1024 resolution with 30+fps. If you get much less than that, I'd say you have an actual problem somewhere; and rather than toy around, my suggestion would be to find and resolve the issue.
As to your actual question (how much data is read from disk during gameplay), I cannot give a qualified answer. You'll have to wait for one of the coders.
But given you have enough RAM, I don't think you need to mess around with a RAM drive. Just slap it into the box and let the windows disk cache do it's work. Oh so long ago and with another game I sunk hours (and lots of money) into setting up such a RAM drive thingy, only to find out that the performance gain over normal caching was barely measurable. Lots of trying and the weirdest test scenarios were necessary to show that there was any gain at all.
As to your actual question (how much data is read from disk during gameplay), I cannot give a qualified answer. You'll have to wait for one of the coders.
But given you have enough RAM, I don't think you need to mess around with a RAM drive. Just slap it into the box and let the windows disk cache do it's work. Oh so long ago and with another game I sunk hours (and lots of money) into setting up such a RAM drive thingy, only to find out that the performance gain over normal caching was barely measurable. Lots of trying and the weirdest test scenarios were necessary to show that there was any gain at all.
As far I know alleg loads the used files into memory, than it doesn't access the files from the harddisk.
But Windows does swap the RAM on the harddisk. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
But Windows does swap the RAM on the harddisk. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
The history of open-source Allegiance is paved with the bodies of dead code branches, forum flame wars, and personal vendettas. But a community remains because people still love the game.