Theory: Would RAM disk increase game performance?

LtRoyalShrimp · 01-14-2015, 10:58 AM #1

So I just had a thought that maybe RAM disks could speed up Dolphin and emulated games. Has anyone tested this before?

**AnyOldName3** · 01-14-2015, 11:02 AM #2

Apparently someone did at some point, and it doesn't help. It wouldn't make sense that it would, given that a hard drive is already much faster than the GC/Wii's DVD drive.

**Fiora** · 01-14-2015, 11:21 AM #3

The OS already caches reads; a RAM disk doesn't really do anything in a modern OS. Dolphin also caps transfer rates to those of a real Wii (around 2.5MB/s), so...

Aleron Ives · 01-14-2015, 11:29 AM #4

(01-14-2015, 11:21 AM)Fiora Wrote: Dolphin also caps transfer rates to those of a real Wii (around 2.5MB/s), so...

You can disable that behaviour for the games that don't misbehave with fast loading, though. Smile

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 01-14-2015, 02:18 PM by MayImilae.)

The ISO is essentially a disc, and dolphin reads the disc just like the GC or Wii would read a disc drive. Since hard drives are already faster than a disc drive, going to an SSD or a ramdisk wouldn't do much... Especially since dolphin emulates disc drive read speeds now (though that can be disabled for awesome).