Running P99 from USB Drive

[Whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah dont bother stripping down. The only thing you would have to change depending on which PC to went to is the drive letter your running the flash drive off of. You will just have to go into the eq shortcut and change the drive letter to whatever the PC assigned it.

not really.. just delete the shortcut and remake it off the eqgame.exe it does it automatically

[phacemeltar]

if you edit the EQlite batch file you can see how it works. i would suggest using EQlite to create the install directory on your flash media.

if you are going to run EQ from flash media, using this can potentially increase the life of your drive. also i have been running EQ from a SD card now for a few months and not only is it alot faster on zones, but i crash ALOT less. would HIGHLY recommend.

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Whiteberry [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not really.. just delete the shortcut and remake it off the eqgame.exe it does it automatically

Yes you could delete the shortcut but much easier just to go into its properties and change a letter for the drive its on..

[blondeattk]

EQ from a SD card

which type of card?

how can a sd card be faster than a ssd for loading zones? sd cards dont have any cache on them ?? where you running eq from a ide drive or something?

[Nuggie]

Originally Posted by Whoop [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With just a standard 2.0 usb?

Yes.

[phacemeltar]

Originally Posted by blondeattk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

where you running eq from a ide drive or something?

yesd. using an SD as a ghetto SSD. the SD says 90mb/s xfer rate, but it really only is like 8mb/s

still, zoning takes maybe 2 seconds and someone with an SSD thought i had one too because i was zoning as fast as him.

[Whoop]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if you edit the EQlite batch file you can see how it works. i would suggest using EQlite to create the install directory on your flash media.

if you are going to run EQ from flash media, using this can potentially increase the life of your drive. also i have been running EQ from a SD card now for a few months and not only is it alot faster on zones, but i crash ALOT less. would HIGHLY recommend.

I would try this but I don't have a SD card reader in the laptop so I would need an usb adapter but then I night as well use a stick since the bottleneck would be the usb connection?

[blondeattk]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yesd. using an SD as a ghetto SSD. the SD says 90mb/s xfer rate, but it really only is like 8mb/s

still, zoning takes maybe 2 seconds and someone with an SSD thought i had one too because i was zoning as fast as him.

that doesnt make any kind of logical sense..... your really using some sort of possesed sentient, majic enhanced sd card....comon own up! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

`but it really only is like 8mb/s`

can you make some tests(with software) and measure the actual rate?

how is the sd connected to the motherboard? which interface is this data going through?

do you have more than 4gig ram in the machine?

[phacemeltar]

Originally Posted by blondeattk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that doesnt make any kind of logical sense..... your really using some sort of possesed sentient, majic enhanced sd card....comon own up! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

`but it really only is like 8mb/s`

can you make some tests(with software) and measure the actual rate?

how is the sd connected to the motherboard? which interface is this data going through?

do you have more than 4gig ram in the machine?

when i do file transfers in windows, it caps me at 8mb/s.. which is the only way i know this, by pushing the little "show details" arrow.
my SD card is one of this class 10 XC cards, rated way higher than my drive capabilities.
the SD slot is in PCI bus 0, whatever that means.

i bought this SD card mainly for this game, as i noticed that EQ was doing alot of read/write and my HDD was spinning like crazy any time i'd play. now i have oblivion running from it too, and that game loads in like 5 secs lol. only 4GB ram

[blondeattk]

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^^should be even faster....

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...-transfer-rate
(how to test your drive)

`the SD slot is in PCI bus 0, whatever that means.`

makes no sense. describe how you physically connect the card to the computer.......and dont just say ` i push it in` /facepalm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Tach

am sure othere folks can recomend similar software you can use....