New beta version 3.4
Started by Andrew
New beta version 3.4 12 May 2013, 15:07 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 570 |
Michael Woffenden
New beta version, issue with "check for update" 13 May 2013, 06:30 |
New beta version, you have the TMP/TEMP environment variables... 13 May 2013, 06:49 |
Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 6 |
The application has detected that you have the TMP/TEMP environment variables set to use the root of a RAM disk. Some programs may not work correctly in this case. It is recommended to create a folder on the RAM disk and then update the variables to point to that folder, e.g. R:\TEMP.
New beta version 13 May 2013, 11:56 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 570 |
2mwoffenden. What is shown on the screen if you choose Tools - Set Windows TEMP folder from the RAM Disk's main menu? Please post a screen shot if possible.
New beta version 13 May 2013, 12:00 |
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New beta version 13 May 2013, 12:16 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 570 |
Make it R:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp without a slash at the end.
This warning message will be gone. When you have that extra slash at the end of TEMP-path it may also cause certain applications to fail.
New beta version 13 May 2013, 12:24 |
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Emaulana
New beta version 13 May 2013, 17:21 |
New beta version 14 May 2013, 13:28 |
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Emaulana
New beta version 14 May 2013, 15:45 |
Emaulana
New beta version 14 May 2013, 18:04 |
Robert Lee
New beta version 14 May 2013, 22:13 |
New beta version 14 May 2013, 22:44 |
Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 6 |
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New beta version 15 May 2013, 03:19 |
Bambooz
New beta version 15 May 2013, 21:14 |
V3.4 Beta was able to create a ~2960MB RAMDisk on the first try. Everything larger failed with Error C000009A just like V3.3.3 did all the time.
However.. trying to find out where the limit is, the RAMDisk size I'm able to create will shrink with every try. I'm now unable to create a RAMDisk larger than ~2400MB, and with every new try, the max. size goes even lower than that.
What's even more annoying: we're talking about roughly 2 to 3GB RAMDisks in a system with 32 friggin GB of RAM and over 30600MB free/available according to both SPRD and the taskmanager.
Should be pretty obvious that I'm kinda pissed, as I bought that much RAM mainly for RAMDisk usage and that's exactly what isn't working
Here is my screenshot [link].
(Even though it says "The action completed successfully", the RAMDisk is nowhere to be found. Seems to be some kind of bogus status code?!)
I've tried various RAMDisk programs so far and none of them were able to create RAMDisks larger than a few GB in size. I feel like I'm cursed.. and I want to stay away from the "big players" (Superspeed and the like) as I don't really feel like paying (quite a lot of) money just to find out it doesn't work either. The test versions are useless as their limit is the RAMDisk size..
rj.2001
New beta version 17 May 2013, 06:51 |
I'll move my temporary MediaCenter Files (TimeShift Buffer) C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\TempRec\TempSBE\ to the ram disk.
But Windows Media Center needs min one file called "{12045B7F-D5D1-4722-8E48-6693B1277A84}.tmp.sbf" inside of these directory. Is there any way to create a empty file (0 Byte length) with the specified name on starting the ram disk?
OK, I can create a ram disk based on an 4GB image file, but in this case RamDisk needs 15 seconds longer, to load. Not good, if I start the Media Center, directly after starting my Win8 64Bit.
Thanks for help.
Ciao
eline
New beta version 20 May 2013, 19:35 |
New beta version 20 May 2013, 23:41 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
New beta version 21 May 2013, 02:31 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
QuoteHowever.. trying to find out where the limit is, the RAMDisk size I'm able to create will shrink with every try. I'm now unable to create a RAMDisk larger than ~2400MB, and with every new try, the max. size goes even lower than that.
Please, specify how much of physical memory is not freed after every attempt, in megabytes? Also, what are exact parameters that you specify for RAM-disk in this case?
QuoteWhat's even more annoying: we're talking about roughly 2 to 3GB RAMDisks in a system with 32 friggin GB of RAM and over 30600MB free/available according to both SPRD and the taskmanager. Should be pretty obvious that I'm kinda pissed, as I bought that much RAM mainly for RAMDisk usage and that's exactly what isn't working
Are you using 64-bit version of operating system?
Quote(Even though it says "The action completed successfully", the RAMDisk is nowhere to be found. Seems to be some kind of bogus status code?!)
You're right, this should be fixed in the next release.
New beta version 21 May 2013, 02:43 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
QuoteDoes the new version have options on the menu/system tray icon to manually write to image file and refresh ramdisk from image file? In other words, an option to manually sync ramdisk and image file.
There are no such options at the moment. And they are not expected to be implemented until the current beta release is properly tested and becomes stable.
New beta version 21 May 2013, 02:47 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
QuoteI'm trying this beta version with the Hard Disk Emulation on now. Seems the IE 10 flash player problem has fixed. My main concern now is the beta version seems slower than the previous stable version.
Hard disk emulation mode is slower than direct I/O mode, it's by design, but there is a plan to slightly decrease this performance degradation in future releases.
eline
New beta version 22 May 2013, 06:58 |
New beta version 22 May 2013, 08:34 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
RDUser
New beta version 23 May 2013, 17:48 |
upserper
New beta version 05 June 2013, 16:03 |
pepper
New beta version 07 June 2013, 19:04 |
Version 3.3.3 had this benchmark:
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The new Version 3.4.0
had this result:
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In the past I use win7 home premium x64bit, I create my ramdisk, quite normal as every time, and install the pagefile, but in the boot process I became a problem. The problem was the driver of my ramdisk load too late. And the system create a new pagefile on my ssd. With xp-64bit I had never such problems with my "ramdisk-pagefile". Maybe you solved this problem in version 3.4.0? But at the moment I can't test it.
About the performance, I can say: It is very high - superspeed
Cloud Huang
New beta version 10 June 2013, 21:06 |
Pepper
New beta version 10 June 2013, 22:45 |
New beta version 11 June 2013, 00:53 |
Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 34 |
Cloud Huang
New beta version 11 June 2013, 11:46 |