SWTOR Unleashed (game files in RAM to improve performance)

I suggest you try to put in unleashed only : diskarena, localapps, fx and dynamic. Strangely, this is what works best up to my knowledge.

Try to delete your XML conf file, and restart unleashed, choose your conf and try again.

Yes, I have both. I tried unzipping it again and it happened to work that way. But it is rather annoying to do every time.

Sorry to be a bother, but where is the XML conf file? Way over my head...

Thanks in advance.

Once only!

next to the exe file

Without you actually testing it how on earth do you know the SDD's are working correctly. It's not always just plug and play. As explained in my previous post there can be plenty of problems. Check the corsair forums for example of the problems people are having.

SSD performance also degrades. To add to my previous post. Is TRIM working? TRIM does not work if you're using ssd in pci-e slot. TRIM does work for RAID but only if the ssd is not being used are part of a raid array. Although the latest IRST and mobo bios does support it. But you have to research this and use the correct bios and IRST. Also may need to update your firmware for the SSD.

I have an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3, I7 2600k@4.43ghz, 8gb corsair ddr3 running at 1000mhz/2000mt/s, 2 560TI in SLI mode, 4 WD black editions 1tb hdd's running in raid10, Corsair Force GT 60gb as my ssd cache drive for my raid10.

I always play with all settings at max and have zero issues. I don't have to run with fullscreen windowed mode. I run in fullscreen mode. I don't have to use the nameplate scaling fix, so don't use it. Max dip to 35fps if there's 250 on the fleet and i pass by 100+ by the gtn on my speeder. Otherwise it's 50-110fps. Typically 60+fps.

I won't argue that unleashed will help and does help plenty of people. I also won't argue that ram is 10x faster than an ssd. However unleashed does not help us people that have optimized our own system. I take great pride in knowing and optimizing my system to the fullest and i test everything to verify this. You don't need unleashed if you're optimized. The game does not require 10,000mb/s thruput. However it does seem to ~ 250mb/s to not have issues and if you aren't getting over this amount unleashed can be a great help.

Again test and optimize your system. Here's a hint. If you select unleashed to load 16gb to ram and it takes 2 minutes to load this into ram then this means your ssd is not performing well. It's a benchmark without actually downloading and using a benchmark. Noticed a few people posting it's taking that long with their ssd systems. I'd seriously look into correcting whatever issue you have.

We have quite a few people in my guild who have and use SSD's and at least two have just swtor on the ssd. That two have load times that are worse than my non ssd raid10 before i added my ssd cache. There is somethign wrong on their end, driver, software, firmware, etc. We're always waiting on these people to get back to the boss after a wipe. There are also quite a few of us with SSD's that are working optimally. We've tried unleashed and most if not all have went back to not using it as none of our optimized systems found enough of a benefit. The people with the long load times i haven't suggested they use unleashed yet. I'd personally rather see them fix their computer first. Again using load times as a way to gauge their ssd performace. I think it's obvious the people with the long load times would benefit quite a bit more by using unleashed. While it may or may not decrease load times it should increase fps as they aren't having to wait for the swtor files to constantly read and there are quite a lot of files being read at once i've noticed.

I decided to try a different scenario this time around. I removed my ssd cache drive from my raid 10. Tested unleashed on my raid 10 regular hdd's without the ssd cache. Then installed swtor on the ssd to compare the difference. There was zero fps gain in either setup. However load time from character select screen to in game was 45 seconds for the raid10 using unleashed (diskcachearena, local app, fx and dynamic) vs 15 seconds for the ssd without unleashed. Raid 10 with the ssd cache performed exactly the same as the ssd by itself oddly. Same fps and same load times.

I'm never had an issue with this game. I run in fullscreen mode and not fullscreen windowed. Never had to turn nameplate scaling off. Never had to lower any graphic settings. Yet i've seen people with almost exactly the same setup as mine that were having many issues. Same cpu, same mobo, same vid card. People are obviously doing something wrong. I'm going back to optimizing your system. If you got my mobo uninstall that virtulogic software and disable that pos in the bios. That fixed my initial problems with this game. Finding and using the correct vid drivers worked wonders as well. Using 310.70 currently.

This is a great tool that has helped a lot of people. I'm glad people are looking for ways to help people out. And it has helped quite a lot of people. It just hasn't helped me. But i didn't need help anyways. I don't believe the game is the problem. Look at fixing it on your end. That's not to say there aren't some problems with some setups. AMD vid cards still having issues i believe for example. And some setups just won't run this game right. My laptop is a good example of a setup that runs this game like crap. But i think i'll put the blame on the manufacturer and not the game.

just my 2 cents

Seems you have a good computer. It's not the case for everyone. You probably realise it hides most of SWTOR engine's bad design. Don't you?

Also I think playing in full screen mode isn't that smart, since it'll reload the game files each time you alt tab to check something in windows whereas "windowed fullscreen" (which is in fact really fullscreen too) doesn't and lets you swap back and forth instantaneously.

You seem to focus on optimizing the computer and it's a good thing in my opinion. BUT. When people don't have the money (or don't want to spend some) to upgrade their computer (SSD, cpu, GFX card or whatever...) if the optimisation is not enough... What can they do? It's where SWTOR unleashed kicks in. And it's FREE. Don't compare that with buying hardware for example, it doesn't make sense. It's not a competition. All optimisations are good. Buying hardware is too. But they're is no point in comparing those.

Ram isn't just 10-100x times faster than hard drives (be it a SSD raid), ... it has also far faster access times. When I read your comments I'm not so sure what settings you chose in unleashed : I advise DiskArena+LocalApps+Fx+Dynamic, that's all... Some people and I noticed some performance drops on some systems if you add too much in the ram drive. (I still haven't figured out why) This is the settings you might want to try (for curiosity at least).

System optimized or not, I'm very unsure about your beliefs. 800+ past posts proved that users without performance gain were simply misusing the tool.

Since I'm very interested in people full of knowledge, I'd be very happy to learn from you (msn, teamspeak, email, private message, or any other communication tool) how to verify my system's optimisation, so we could add so more verified advices to help people out. Would you give me a hand?

I also on the point about user whining about 2 minutes loading time for unleashed. This tool is made as simple as possible but still... it's for advanced users who at least read the original post and try a few seconds to understand what my software does and why. By the way as stated upper.... bad idea to try to load more than DiskArena+LocalApps+Fx+Dynamic to make a first SWTOR Unleashed bench.

About your friends systems.... if their SSD is slower than a simple HDD raid0... yes, they have issues they must correct before thinking about optimisations such as SWTOR Unleashed.... but if they don't know how to, they can still try unleashed it might help them.

There's also something fundamental you seem to have missed when I read you. You say SSD loads faster than HDD + Unleashed.... But you know SWTOR Unleashed isn't made to speed up loading times. So your comment are totally out of context. If you want to speed up loading times (check the original post) => try to use the ready boost feature (though it doesn't speed up first loading of a file, but it does after that) be it a RAM one (like AMD's or the windows one using USB or cards).

Also since your laptop is "crap", if you have enough RAM, maybe you could try unleashed on it?

Regards.

I'm not saying to spend money to optimize your system. I'm saying to optimize your current system. It's not a question of money. It's just ensuring your system is working correctly and at it's full potential with what you have. When i built this computer earlier this year swtor ran like absolute crap. CTD's quite often. Locks ups. Low fps. Stuttering and huge drops in fps. I just kept at it until i resolved all my hardware and software issues. Didn't even know i had any issues until playing this game. This takes quite a bit of work and each system will be different. It can be very difficult at times to locate and fix the problems. It took me several weeks btw. Could have lowered the time using google. But i prefer figuring stuff out on my own.

I've tried unleashed with (diskcachearena, localapp, fx) and (diskcachearena, localapp, fx, dynamic). Any more than that just goes to pagefiling due to only having 8gb ram. So it ends up being counter intuitive. I run fullscreen mode because i prefer fullscreen mode. I can live with a reload time that's a max of 6 seconds when i alt/tab out and back in.

And i might mention that there's many posts of users that say using unleashed did not help them. I'm not here to argue. I agree it has helped a whole lot of people. But at least give me the courtesy to agree that is has not helped a lot of people as well. And i admit there are quite a few not using unleashed correctly. But i can assure you there are plenty that were using it correctly that saw no benefit.

As explained using readyboost via a mem stick would not benefit me either. My access time on my ssd is faster as well as read and write speeds obviously. And i have a fairly old usb stick that benches horribly. There really isn't any reason to use ready boost if you have an ssd that is working correctly. The ssd should be 4x faster. In my case it's 10-20x faster read and writes. Although access time is only 2-4x faster on my ssd. If your main drive is not an ssd i'd put ready boost on the ssd drive however. Ready boost on my mem stick on my laptop may be an option as that's using a fairly slow hdd and no ssd so the mem stick access time would be ~20x faster. So yayour suggestion is looking like a real good idea and i'll try it out some day. Lappy has 6gb of ram so i may be able to try unleashed on it. Although i can't be bothered atm as it's winter and i rarely if ever use it now.

Now that i've tried my ssd by itself i think i'll put it back as my raid10 ssd cache drive. I liked everything loading and running fast as opposed to just this game.

And thanks again for helping so many people with unleashed.