No but I did that as soon as I bought a computer with an SSD, created hard links to the RAMDrive to prevent SSD premature death...
But I SHOULD NOT have to do that.
Temp files have no reason to exist, we have enough RAM already.
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No but I did that as soon as I bought a computer with an SSD, created hard links to the RAMDrive to prevent SSD premature death...
But I SHOULD NOT have to do that.
Temp files have no reason to exist, we have enough RAM already.
I agree totally...
I will add I aslo hate programs that dont clean up after themselves, how hard can it be,(eg: when you uninstall streetfighter demo it leaves 400mb of files behind in a hidden folder, or amd drivers leave 100mb of files in c:\amd)
and why the hell does win7 need to be over 20x the size of xp
I will add I aslo hate programs that dont clean up after themselves, how hard can it be,(eg: when you uninstall streetfighter demo it leaves 400mb of files behind in a hidden folder, or amd drivers leave 100mb of files in c:\amd)
and why the hell does win7 need to be over 20x the size of xp
Are you referring to the original or medal of honour 2010 ?
The original, yes everyone said it rocked, then call of duty was released and everyone changed their minds and said it was rubbish - me, I recommend it
2010, If you like mw3 single player or call of duty black ops you will like it. The devs love the fullscreen blur of the frostbite engine so much that they make sure your character gets knocked unconscious in every level.
The original, yes everyone said it rocked, then call of duty was released and everyone changed their minds and said it was rubbish - me, I recommend it
2010, If you like mw3 single player or call of duty black ops you will like it. The devs love the fullscreen blur of the frostbite engine so much that they make sure your character gets knocked unconscious in every level.
The original MoH was insanely great. The sniper level and tank levels are my favorites.
Lost my CDs in some move - might have to buy it again
For single-player, CoD is too formulaic and scripted IMHO - can't remember who it was here on B3D that first pointed out that CoD is just a shooting gallery with stupid enemy re-spawns unless you move up...
Lost my CDs in some move - might have to buy it again
For single-player, CoD is too formulaic and scripted IMHO - can't remember who it was here on B3D that first pointed out that CoD is just a shooting gallery with stupid enemy re-spawns unless you move up...
Yeah, the 2010 one. Just asking cuz it's $5 on steam now. Haven't played any CoDs since 2 and only Bad Company 2 as far as military shooters go in the last 5 years. Just wasn't a fan of the serious modern military setting, but I still enjoyed BC2 for the humour.
Haven't played any CoDs since 2 and only Bad Company 2 as far as military shooters go in the last 5 years. Just wasn't a fan of the serious modern military setting, but I still enjoyed BC2 for the humour.
Yeah, the 2010 one. Just asking cuz it's $5 on steam now.
It's $19.99 here...
I don't think I'm going to worry about this until I start reading about SSDs with tons of bad sectors. My guess is that this issue is way overblown. Power users love to latch onto worries.
From what I've read, SSD longevity targets years of writing many gigs per day.
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This is what I'm doing with my Crucial C300. I'm using it purely as my boot and application drive so if it goes tits up, no big deal.
Basically didn't modify anything so I can see how long it lasts with heavy Windows useage. So far it's going on over 2 years now I believe without any problems. Although occasionally I run into garbage collection issues. But that only happened when a program I installed put the default location for its temp files into the C: drive. And the program chunks files during transfer and then has extremely heavy read/write in the temp folder when it reassembles the files. Even Windows Trim wasn't terribly helpful when this was happening.
Once that was addressed though it's been smooth. And I have a feeling with a newer generation SSD, I may not have had that hiccup either.
If possible I'm going to keep it setup as it is for 5 years and see if it fails or starts to go bad in that timeframe. Although it's quite likely I'll be tempted to get a newer SSD when Win8 comes out.
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SB
hm... must have been Friday's deal. The deal ended about 20 minutes before your post.
it's $9.39 on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-P..._1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1327186211&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-P..._1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1327186211&sr=1-1
I moved my "users" directory to a real hd keeping programs like chrome...ect... from using the SSD.
Sadly, I'd need to buy like three such SSDs then to hold my steam library... Flash prices are still way too high for bulk storage.
Steam's biggest drawback right now (disregarding all the hollering about sitting there "uselessly" in the background all the time, performing auto-updates and cloud synching and whatnot) is that every bloody game has to go into one and the same folder on one single drive. It's not that uncommon anymore these days for gamers to have a SSD and a HDD in their system, but ALL the steam stuff must go on the HDD by neccessity, even though there may be room on the SSD for a number of demanding games that could use the extra performance.
This really is something Valve ought to look into; the ability to dynamically transfer a game to and from a particular drive, without having to delete local content and reinstall or any such nonsense.
Steam's biggest drawback right now (disregarding all the hollering about sitting there "uselessly" in the background all the time, performing auto-updates and cloud synching and whatnot) is that every bloody game has to go into one and the same folder on one single drive. It's not that uncommon anymore these days for gamers to have a SSD and a HDD in their system, but ALL the steam stuff must go on the HDD by neccessity, even though there may be room on the SSD for a number of demanding games that could use the extra performance.
This really is something Valve ought to look into; the ability to dynamically transfer a game to and from a particular drive, without having to delete local content and reinstall or any such nonsense.
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You'd have to have ~50 games installed at an average of 5 GB each in order to fill a 256 GB SSD. Indie and budget titles you could cram a ton of those in. Considering you can uninstall and install games at will, I'm not sure why anyone would keep them ALL installed all the time.
Considering once I'm done with a single player game I'm likely not to play it again for a while, I just uninstall them and reinstall them after a year or two or three when I get an urge to play it again.
Then again, I guess since I don't have a lot of time on my hands, I find it difficult to play 50-100 different games every week.
Now back in the days of 10-20 MB HDDs, it was easy to fill those with games off of floppies. My god I'd have to delete and install games on a weekly basis. With a few applications, I could fit maybe 2-5 games on the drive at a time.
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SB
Considering once I'm done with a single player game I'm likely not to play it again for a while, I just uninstall them and reinstall them after a year or two or three when I get an urge to play it again.
Then again, I guess since I don't have a lot of time on my hands, I find it difficult to play 50-100 different games every week.
Now back in the days of 10-20 MB HDDs, it was easy to fill those with games off of floppies.
My god I'd have to delete and install games on a weekly basis. With a few applications, I could fit maybe 2-5 games on the drive at a time.Regards,
SB
Your right, its unlikely for anyone to have that many games installed....
and its not like anyone would fill 256gb
I've found that running games off SSD is not a particularly noticeable improvement unless the game is one of those that has 50,000 individual tiny files instead of large archive files. Overall I don't think it's worth the price to put games on SSD right now.
For HDD, I suggest running a defrag app that will also sort directories to reduce seek times, like MyDefrag. Also, having tons of RAM to allow for a big system cache helps. First load may be a little slow but subsequent reads fast.
For HDD, I suggest running a defrag app that will also sort directories to reduce seek times, like MyDefrag. Also, having tons of RAM to allow for a big system cache helps. First load may be a little slow but subsequent reads fast.
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