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Back when I was running COH on an I-RAM (PCI card with 4GB-DDR RAM and a SATA cable) my zone times were damn near nonexistent. I don't know if a real SSD will perform in the same way or not, though.
And whether SSDs in general are worth the cash yet, I also do not know.
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I don't think mine are that deep. I've already started considering components for my next system. I pre-ordered my copy of Win7. Definitely going with a Core i7 CPU, 6GB of DDR3. Haven't picked the mobo or video card yet. SSD performance sounds wonderful but it seems too expensive to me. Maybe in a year or two I'll install one as a 3rd drive and move CoH and some other big/high use programs over to it.
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My load times for CoX on my current computer are Maybe 1 or 2 seconds. How much faster could it be with a SSD? Seriously. I want to know.
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Great video -thanks for sharing!
This will make me consider one for one of the hard drives on my new system.
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I have an OCZ SSD application drive on my computer. CoH is sped up by this a lot. I've only been running with it for a few months, so I can't speak to long term reliability, but so far it's operated flawlessly. Launch is faster and installing CoH Patches is -ridiculously- faster. Does it improve loading times from zone to zone? I really can't say; when I got the SSD, I also got a faster cpu, faster video, more ram, etc., and don't know which was the bottleneck before.
Yes it helps, but you'll only notice it when you first change. I remember zoning times taking half as long or less. You are still limited by network throughput though, so a slow connection will slow things.
For the past 3 months, I've been using an OCZ Vertex on one computer and a ramdrive on the other to host the game files. Both are noticably faster than using the hard drive. Bad news: you forget how slow it was and soon wonder what's taking so long.
The vertex is a medium speed drive: there are faster out there and there are slower. Compared to the WD caviar black I use as a main drive the vertex is approx 40-50% faster on most categories (read and write, buffered read and write, random access, etc)
When comparing between the ram drive and the vertex, the extra 4 gig of ram for a ram drive is faster for approx the same cost as a smaller ssd, but requires more setup. You decide if you're willing to do the work, or find a ramdisk program that will auto mount and save image files so that any changes are saved and loaded on bootup/shutdown. I do it manually. It takes around 55 seconds to copy the 3 gig of CoH game files from the hard drive to the ram drive. You must do this before you run the game after each boot. No big deal IMO, Imagine you're spending a little time now to save time while you are playing when you really want it. I think it's worth it, YMMV.
Many ramdrive programs can map memory the OS doesn't see. This means that you can put 8 gig into an XP32 system and still use that extra 4 gig as a ram drive.
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Anyone running CoH from a Solid State Drive (SSD)
Does it cut down the zoning time appreciably?
Curious to know.
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