Yay for P.C Gaming

[Davros]

I wouldnt put a pagefile on a ssd

I dont mean from a performance point of view
I mean from a wear point of view

 

[swaaye]

I might worry about wear with the pagefile if I was putting an SSD into a system with 512MB RAM or something and there would be tons of swapping going on. Typically the pagefile is just not a target of much writing. But if it does get use having it on the SSD is such a huge benefit to performance.

 

[Davros]

having it on a ram drive would be better 256mb should be fine

 

[Lightman]

I have 768MB of RAM Drive for TEMP files and browser caches (dumped to mechanical HDD on shut down) and system managed Pagefile.sys on my system SSD. I'm not too worried with wear though because I went for older tech / slower SSD as my Windows drive! You know older as in SLC .
Samsung Enterprise Class 100GB SSD with pesky 230MB/s Read and 180MB/s Write. Slow compared to modern drives, but 100000+ write cycles were more important to me. Best part was the price I've paid for it on eBay - same as MLC equivalent drive.

For games benefiting from fast storage (BF3, Witcher 2, etc) I have modern 550MB/s+ 240GB SSD, everything else goes to few mechanical drives as they are fast enough when reading linear data.
I must say I'm happy with my setup and don't feel any need of upgrading it for now in internal storage department.

 

[orangpelupa]

my laptop RAM slot already full with 4GB RAM. But i have SSD plugged in to it's DVDRW slot.
Without using big pagefile, i cant use it for my needs. (too slow when switching app).

currently im using 16 GB pagefile, down from 32 GB. Nice free space boost since i no longer playing BF3 on this laptop.

But if BF4 beta released, im sure will set pagefile back to 32 GB

 

[Silent_Buddha]

I dont mean from a performance point of view
I mean from a wear point of view

After over 3 years of heavy use (left page file and all temp files on main boot SSD) my SSD still has plenty of use left on it. I was going to keep going until it died but finally got a faster SSD to replace the Crucial C300 that I'd been using as a boot drive since 2010.

And that's with sometimes hundreds of gigabytes of read/writes per day to the drive. Although I always made sure that there was always 100 GB free on the drive (256 GB drive) to maximize wear leveling It's now being used as a game drive where it's mostly going to be reads only.

I have a TLC (Samsung 840) drive for the boot drive now. It should have a much lower read/write cycle threshold than the C300, so I'm going to try to keep using this one until it dies, but as with the C300, I may eventually be too tempted by faster drives to keep myself from upgrading it.

Regards,
SB

 

[Rodéric]

Bought an Intel SSD in early 2010, still using it as boot drive, it has terabytes of written data by now and still fine.
(It's SLC though, not MLC like most drives today.)

 

[Svensk Viking]

at least the multicore CPU on consoles will force developer to make proper multithread game...
my 4 core AMD cpu rarely being used more than 50% (most of the time, only 2 cores are used)

yay for PC gaming, no need to upgrade my rather old CPU

Planetside 2 will become better multithreaded on the PC as well due to the work they're doing for the PS4 version:smile:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ross-platform-play-teases-character-transfers

Biggest reason IMO for PC gaming's superiority: No BS with having to pay for playing online(except from MMOs). A shame that media didn't criticize Sony for requiring PS+.

 

[almighty]

Am I the only one that thinks TLOU looks meh?

It really isn't that impressive...... And yes I have seen it running live before I get shot down.

IQ is shocking at times, the foliage is laughable, texture quality is all over the shop....

The reason it looks good is because the IQ is so piss poor that it hides the flaws and draw backs....

Render it on PC at high resolutions and high IQ and its flaws and draw backs will soon shine through.

 

[Davros]

Am I the only one that thinks TLOU looks meh?
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Perhaps if you tell us what tlou is ?

 

[almighty]

Perhaps if you tell us what tlou is ?

The last of us

 

[digitalwanderer]

That's like a PS3 exclusive?

 

[homerdog]

Yeah it's a PS3 game with pretty good graphics. Not like anything you'd see on a high end PC mind you but it does look darn good considering the ancient tech it runs on.

On another note, how close is the new NVIDIA Shield to the current consoles from a gaming performance perspective? I assume the Shield is very close in terms of computational power, and also has 4x the RAM to boot.
Hmm I may start a thread on this..