Installing BMS on SSD
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What socket 7 with 80Gig HDs ? And a pair of 256MB of SDRAM sticks. Do tell & I might be more sympathetic.
A 1TB WD Blue is so cheap, fast & reliable, I can remember thinking it was so cool when I had a pair of 10GB Quantum in raid.
Before that I used some of the System memory to create a Ram Drive to load Falcons Data Base into at System boot. Now that made a hell of a difference.
Today’s rigs are so fast for the dollar that I don’t even bother to OC the CPU anymore,
In some ways I do miss the old days of eking out every last drop of performance out of every sub system, storage, memory, GPU, CPU and cooling.
Now it’s how to economically arrange my medical appointments. :crutch:
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well if u have the money for it… if you don’t you overclock and you do whatever to squeeze every thing from it to give you better performance and not loose anything as much as you can.
When I was to buy my last os boot hdd I wanted to go beyond the 1TB, blue of course, but instead I chose a 1 tb black, safer than larger.
The ssd is 120gb bought on flash sale and painful to buy it, but theaters were getting more and more and larger and my old 60gb was not enough. now even with the newer 120gb ssd i bought is not enough.So with this trick I can have my not so used theaters in one of my old hdd’s and not worry for the space in my ssd.
Or I can move theaters by such way and keep the 120ssd and save the money that I don’t have for some xx years or until the ssd dies.
I was already thinking if I should upgrade to a new bigger ssd, but with this I don’t need to.
So when the going get tough the tough gets going…
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Well, I partially concur with you… BUT! (it is umm big butt) , today prices of dd3/4 systems specs and of course some cutting edge SSD’s (like EVO Pro) are definitely not economical, if you allow.
We, (I am) are always looking for some best-buy, … in the end is a matter or personal preference.
Ddr2 is ok, cheap, and old… , my motherboard was unique design GA45PE-DS3L , which accepts 4GB ddr2 sticks, … just go on e-bay and see how much for that rarities, 1 stick only!. . … I don’t know man, it is not economical if you ask me.
So… why not to save some buck wherever you can?
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I’m using the same method on Linux / Wine to link installed theaters on Win7 into my WINE-based BMS install on Linux, works like a charm on that end, too
All the best, Uwe
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Yo, you can use compactGUI downloaded from here https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI/releases/download/v2.6.2/CompactGUI.exe which is a GUI for windows 10 new compact feature. I compressed my falcon installation from 60GB to 26GB using 16k compression. Saves a ton of space and no issues
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wow we r in the dark here…
It says with old hdd’s this makes it faster… probably assuming you have a good cpu.so what settings did you use?
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Used xpress16k, you can use any of them the more you compress the longer it takes though, but damn its a great way to save up those GB’s.
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well if from 60 went to 26 then I can have all theaters in my ssd that way.
ssd is fast, my cpu is fast so there must be a gain here.
But i’m on win7… :lol:
At least I can use it at my work notebook. -
wow falcon from 31,5 went to 13,5…
and with medium compression…
looks very promising.
looks very impressive.I’ll test it and on heavy apps.
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Lol I tested it and as a feeling I didn’t notice the slidest.
Thanks WurminatorZA.
In my work laptop 500gb SSD from 60gb free now I have more than 100gb free just from heavy load and personal use apps that I don’t use that often.
In xp that I tried that compression tool it was a nightmare, now on w10 looks good. I wonder why they don’t have it easily accessible and they still have the old compression thing on the folders files properties…
Well Microsoft forces the stupid things and hides the good stuff…Android studio app folder from 12gb went to 485mb… Go figure…
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Yo, you can use compactGUI downloaded from here https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI/releases/download/v2.6.2/CompactGUI.exe which is a GUI for windows 10 new compact feature. I compressed my falcon installation from 60GB to 26GB using 16k compression. Saves a ton of space and no issues
WOW! That is the best thing I’ve learned since I went over to the darkside and installed Win10! Thank you - gonna check that out for sure. I have several titles that want over 70GB (or more with mods) – this will really help save space on the SSD!
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I’m using the same method on Linux / Wine to link installed theaters on Win7 into my WINE-based BMS install on Linux, works like a charm on that end, too
All the best, Uwe
eh, you’re on your own turf
… MS implemented them in windows , not fully supported tho, since Vista or Win7 , I think.
On Win10 is a MUST , because option for linux co-exist install , for devs. -
Used xpress16k, you can use any of them the more you compress the longer it takes though, but damn its a great way to save up those GB’s.
REALLY ??! WOW … I’ve played with “compact” since WinXP . only caveat was, maybe still, that disk must be formatted in ntfs , 4K cluster size. That are the slowest operations , even on ssd . read-write., on that cluster size.
And still , if any hard drive fail occurs , it is more problematic to repair compressed files.
So then it wasn’t so relevant to me, and left the idea…
You should see ‘compacted’ files and folders blue in explorer. (green, or red? are encrypted ones, but that doesn’t interest us now , also that can be changed with some tweak.)Now, with ??TB disks (non-SSD) it really speeds up things if you format bigger cluster size , eg. 16K , but space is wasted much more when lots of small files. (smaller then 16KB) , or incomplete filled clusters., but reported fully in use.
- defragmentation is A must much more often …where/when required.
But still, for SSD’s , space gained is almost ENORMOUS…, with those new algos , … well ,they’ve finally put modern cpu’s in use somewhat
… and are still faster then any electromechanical disk.
I think I’m in
We’ll see for cpu use still, maybe it is irrelevant , maybe it isn’t. (I’m still on quad core non-ht intel , from 2008/9.) … Maybe it will suffer some penalties, from (de)compress on the fly…,
-, … I 'm thinking all around, system global use, not just for BMS ,…at least for stuff that just lies around taking up space.(…hmm now you got me thinking,… what if you could restrict only one cpu core/thread for disk I/O , eg the 4th one , less used… then it wouldn’t impact the system at all that much…, with some cpu/thread tweak we should be able to attach only windows disk I/O thread service image to that core, the one which is responsible for de-compress on read/write… I guess it i a bit deeper in windows, but could be doable… , … to check)
think I have some benchmarking to do, time wise … and/or fps wise
Anyway , HUGE Thanks for that info.
Cheers
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Xpress16, lzx and other algos are ONLY for exe files , so no benefit for other types … icons in explorer are changed in Win10 , so files are not blue but have two boxes in upper right corner and, of course , every compressed file or folder gets a ‘C’ attribute as before
Typical, all around, cpu usage on my 4core Q6600 3.4Ghz(oc) system is about less then <5% (Its not worth disk i/o thread h4cking in the end) , … so it is very small , … that much is spent watching full hd / surround video with “media player classic home-cinema” player using HAL video acceleration (hardware video decoding) , so … very small cpu usage indeed
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