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General Software Discussion / Re: Residents services and program testing
« Last post by Contro on October 25, 2012, 05:52 PM »by the open. In the same screenshot appear open ReOpen from Miles Ahead's 




If you don't have a very special need for a ram-disk, then stay away from it. Current harddisk are quite fast, and SSD's are even faster. You shouldn't need it.I mostly agree - although it's nice having a ramdisk for %TEMP% - less strain on the flash memory if you've got an SSD, and generally faster. With 16 gigabytes of RAM, it's not a bad idea dedicating one gig to %TEMP%-Ath (October 21, 2012, 02:33 PM)By the way. There is a soft for calculating and logs the boot time of a program ?Probably not, and it wouldn't be reliable anyway - there's no foolproof way to determine when a program is "booted" or "fully ready".-Contro (October 21, 2012, 04:18 PM)My only problem is with Autocad 2012 , 64 bits. First boot take 27 seconds with 16 GB ram and last generation pc (i7, DDR3, etc.) .Does a second startup (after fully loading once, then closing the program fully) load noticeably faster? Disk access is a very small part of what happens during program/game load, and if it's taking 27 seconds... then you either have an insanely fragmented harddrive, or the program is not spending most of it's time reading from the HDD (a normal HDD these days can easily do 100MB/s linearly, so with an unfragmented disk, 27 seconds of mostly I/O would be 2.7 gigs loaded from disk... which I kinda doubt-Contro (October 21, 2012, 04:16 PM)).
Some years back, I did a test with Far Cry 2 - putting the game entirely on a ramdisk didn't really have any noticable effect on load speed. Hard to tell without benchmarking, though, so... go benchmark! (You'll want a persistent ramdisk if you're going to install software to it - SoftPerfect might be worth checking out).
There's also another RAMdisk thread here, a bit more recent than the one Curt mentioned: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32319.0 .-f0dder (October 21, 2012, 04:54 PM)


"Anyone else using Ramdisk in Windows 7?"-Read 7211 times-Curt (October 21, 2012, 12:24 PM)







ABBYY Screenshot Reader can do this. Looks like it's free if you fill out their survey:
http://www.abbyy.com/screenshot_reader/-dr_andus (October 20, 2012, 10:48 AM)

ABBYY Screenshot Reader can do this. Looks like it's free if you fill out their survey:
http://www.abbyy.com/screenshot_reader/-dr_andus (October 20, 2012, 10:48 AM)
or,
here's an even shorter route (but might be an older version):I just checked and you can apparently still get the FREE ABBY Screenshot Reader "RETAIL" (2011 Christmas giveaway) software - download from http://fr7.abbyy.com...enshotReader_ESD.exe
The "newer" version I have (dated 2009-11-20) seems to work just the same as the giveaway version (apparently dated 2009-01), so I don't know what the difference is - if any.-IainB (October 13, 2012, 09:46 PM)-tomos (October 20, 2012, 11:53 AM)
