Vista Readyboost

[Wasted Time]

I was just wonderin if anybody who's playin UT3 on Vista is using the usb flash drive "readyboost" , and if it makes a difference in gaming performance?

[[OPB]HawkRG|UT]

Yes it does..its unplayable.Without readyboost it´s run very smooth.

[AlienMind]

lol .

[Wasted Time]

UT3 is incompatable with readyboost? First i've heard of it.

[nero25]

what is ready boost i never heart of it i thont tink i have it and ut 3 works perfect with out it

[TekHead]

what is ready boost i never heart of it i thont tink i have it and ut 3 works perfect with out it

Using a USB Memory Stick

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...eadyboost.mspx

[Benfica]

Yes it does..its unplayable.Without readyboost it´s run very smooth.

Don't you mean Superfetch ?

[haslo]

Basically, ReadyBoost acts like it's RAM, but it's a lot slower. Like dozens of time slower, I could even imagine hundreds of times slower (although I didn't look up any particular numbers on memory bandwidth for the two). Consequently, it might be an alternative for really, really, low-memory systems, those that wouldn't run UT3 at all without ReadyBoost. For every single other system, it'll slow you down a huge lot if Windows decides it wants to use the USB drive to replace RAM.

It's kinda like having your car pulled by a moped motor.

[haslo]

Don't you mean Superfetch ?

That's another thing. SuperFetch will only slow down your game start, not your gameplay

It's advertised as "makes your system faster" as well though, and a real ***** to turn off.

[~eve]

Basically, ReadyBoost acts like it's RAM, but it's a lot slower. Like dozens of time slower, I could even imagine hundreds of times slower (although I didn't look up any particular numbers on memory bandwidth for the two). Consequently, it might be an alternative for really, really, low-memory systems, those that wouldn't run UT3 at all without ReadyBoost. For every single other system, it'll slow you down a huge lot if Windows decides it wants to use the USB drive to replace RAM.

It's kinda like having your car pulled by a moped motor.

no you tard, it lets you store some cache on your usb stick instead of the hard drive (generally hard drives are slower than usb sticks)

[Benfica]

OK, what I was wondering if he was really meaning Readyboost, or was thinking about SF and posted Readyboost by mistake

[Elohim]

no you tard, it lets you store some cache on your usb stick instead of the hard drive (generally hard drives are slower than usb sticks)

tard = ban

Anyway, I think most might find ReadyBoost to be useless, based on the many reviews out there about it.

[haslo]

no you tard, it lets you store some cache on your usb stick instead of the hard drive (generally hard drives are slower than usb sticks)

If you have enough RAM, you don't need cache (or more specificially, swap space) in the first place. Yes, if you don't have enough RAM it's faster than the HDD. I didn't say anything else.

[Eugen]

theorically it works good enough, but when it comes to practice you will find out that buying more ram than some SD cards is better, and sata2 10.000pm hdd works much faster than usb2.0 cards... the only good thing i can possibly image would be the hdmi, else i dont think you will see much diference.

[KriLL3.8™]

That's another thing. SuperFetch will only slow down your game start, not your gameplay

It's advertised as "makes your system faster" as well though, and a real ***** to turn off.

Actually it does make your system faster, and make your games start faster.

Readyboost is only a good option if you're low on ram (512MB-1GB) and would have to use pagefiles much, 2GB or more should not use pagefiles nor readyboost.

Rule of thumb: ram > * and you can't ever get too much of it.