Solved About gaming performance and disk drives!

[Windowser]

I just saved my Oblivion disc image to my computer using Daemon Tools' Disc Imaging.
This will save the game disc from being scratched and other unpleasant things like that.

But a question came up:
Does it have any effect on my game performance if I play Oblivion by image mounting on Daemon Tools instead of playing the game with the actual disk?

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi,

The biggest issue with Mounting anything is that is uses System Memory to load/unload files that are needed. As you have 8GB it shouldn't really be a problem but you can but try it and see if you notice any change in the performance of the game.


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[Windowser]

Thank you for your answer. I haven't myself noticed any change on the performance, but wanted an opinion of someone who knows better. I believe that my memory will be more than enough, because my current performance bottleneck seems to be my graphics card.

 

[Bill2]

Hard disk read times are faster than optical drives so generally speaking methinks a game would load faster than from the iso. In any case virtual drives are faster than the physical drives for the same reason- they reside on the hard disk. having said that, the game dvd would likely cache the current level (or whatever its called in oblivion) to the hdd/ram so the performance boost may not be directly proportional to read speeds.