Readyboost and SLI...

[DEM123]

Has anyone noticed if the "readyboost" feature of Vista helps out at all in the performance of FSX? How about SLI arrangements...has anyone gone from a single GPU to an SLI environ, and if so, have you noticed an appreciable gain in perfomance (frame rates, rendering etc:)

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[piperarcherpilot]

Hello, welcome! I have a 2gb flash drive thats readyboost enabled, and while i've experimented with it quite a bit, I dont notice much of a difference, if any difference at all. I have 2gb's of ram to begin with, and readyboost is a feature that will help more with computers that have less than 512 ram from what I understand.

[DEM123]

Thanks Guy, I am beginning to think that you are correct on that. I haven't noticed much of an imnprovement on mine either....

[mjrhealth]

There is an article somewhere about readyboost, and there are a lot of misconception as to what it does. It does not add more memory to your PC as such, neither can it be used as a swapfile. It is solely gesigned to cache the small10k , 40k files that are normally swapped to harddrive, where the larger files are still swapped to harddrive which apparently is the most efficient way to do it. USB keys also seem to be rather a tricky item. The speed they quote are not neccesaarily true and may not help. Seems that the keys usually have a small amount of really fast memory which is used as a cache to faster emory i guess to keep them cheap. This of course works fine with large files that are saved once but when reading and writing lots of little files it dosnt perfrom well, this is why vista does a check of the key to see if it will work, it also means that it may take a while for the cache to show any performance increase. Would like to know if anyone actually got any improvement out of using it.

[txnetcop]

There is an article somewhere about readyboost, and there are a lot of misconception as to what it does. It does not add more memory to your PC as such, neither can it be used as a swapfile. It is solely gesigned to cache the small10k , 40k files that are normally swapped to harddrive, where the larger files are still swapped to harddrive which apparently is the most efficient way to do it. USB keys also seem to be rather a tricky item. The speed they quote are not neccesaarily true and may not help. Seems that the keys usually have a small amount of really fast memory which is used as a cache to faster emory i guess to keep them cheap. This of course works fine with large files that are saved once but when reading and writing lots of little files it dosnt perfrom well, this is why vista does a check of the key to see if it will work, it also means that it may take a while for the cache to show any performance increase. Would like to know if anyone actually got any improvement out of using it.

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