Games still having loadscreens with ramdisk

[Origami Cactus]

Hello!

I have 32gb of ram, so technically i can now put games up to 24gb in a ramdisk, but to my displeasure, it only makes loadscreens maybe 2-4 seconds faster than on an ssd, but the loadscreens are still there for ~5seconds.

So what else is bottlenecking my game load times? Does it really take that long to load the info from ram to Vram?

It is not an serious question, but more out of curiosity.

The game i tested today was the Bioshock Remastered.

[2FA]

You could have infinite bandwidth, and there could still be load times due to the software. Probably just the way the game is coded.

[Aleksbgbg]

During loading, the game isn't simply moving & fiddling with memory. Some processing is also taking place.

 

A few things I can think of, that the game is doing:

1. Creating appropriate memory stores (stacks/heaps)

2. Processing assets from disk, and moving relevant pieces to working RAM (so a copy pasta from your RAM disk to your non-disk part of RAM)

3. Generating working memory for your character's current context (position, other objects nearby, etc)
4. Moving assets into VRAM (as you mentioned)

 

Keep in mind that the game doesn't have full control over your PC. When the game allocates memory, it has to ask the OS to do it - which takes time. (Of course there are allocation strategies that keep this to a minimum). Other such conditions occur, such as processes competing for resources.

 

It's unfortunately not as simple as working directly from your RAM disk.