So I just had a thought that maybe RAM disks could speed up Dolphin and emulated games. Has anyone tested this before?
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Theory: Would RAM disk increase game performance?
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01-14-2015, 10:58 AM
So I just had a thought that maybe RAM disks could speed up Dolphin and emulated games. Has anyone tested this before?
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01-14-2015, 11:02 AM
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.
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 01-14-2015, 11:21 AM
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...
01-14-2015, 11:29 AM
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).
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