Ramdisk Theory

[Beotsh]

I've built many PC's and understand a lot about them, but I have a possibly dumb question. In theory, if someone ran a 64gb ramdisk with a decent processor (4770k w/ Intel HD 4600) and installed an entire game on it; would you still need a high end graphics card to run a triple A title (BF4)?  If I am missing something critical please ellaborate.  Thanks guys!

[Tea1337]

Yes you would still need the Graphics card because the HD 4600 It would use, even on the Ramdisk wouldn't be enough to get good fps. You might be lucky enough to play at minimum ata round 10fps I would guess.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Yes, the stuff it needs to run is loaded into memory while its running anyway. Loading it  into a RAM disk would do nothing but make it load faster.

[Jamdude]

Doesn't everything on a RAM disk get deleted when you turn off your PC, like normal RAM usage?

[Thunderjolt]

Doesn't everything on a RAM disk get deleted when you turn off your PC, like normal RAM usage?

 

It gets saves as a file before you shut down I think. So when you start back up it takes longer because it's loading everything back into the RAM

[Jamdude]

It gets saves as a file before you shut down I think. So when you start back up it takes longer because it's loading everything back into the RAM

Alright, thanks, I don't know much about RAM disks

[Humbug]

if someone ran a 64gb ramdisk with a decent processor (4770k w/ Intel HD 4600) and installed an entire game on it; would you still need a high end graphics card to run a triple A title (BF4)?  If I am missing something critical please ellaborate.  Thanks guys!

 

A RAMDISK would not speed up graphics processing. So it would not help your framerates. Similar to the effect an SSD has...

[iain]

I've built many PC's and understand a lot about them, but I have a possibly dumb question. In theory, if someone ran a 64gb ramdisk with a decent processor (4770k w/ Intel HD 4600) and installed an entire game on it; would you still need a high end graphics card to run a triple A title (BF4)?  If I am missing something critical please ellaborate.  Thanks guys!

Yes it may load faster but the GPU is not good enough. Also ram disk is bad for your ram.