SWTOR Unleashed (game files in RAM to improve performance)

[Glorfins]

Okay, so I built a system in June, i5 3570k, EVGA 670 FTW, 8 GB of RAM, and yet I still got distinct lag (in animation, movement, etc.) fps maxed out around 70 when looking at the ground (fantastic, eh?), more like unsteady 30 on fleet. This is with maxed settings except for shadows. I really don't get why this game doesn't utilize my computer's specs, as it should be a beast by all rights (the game being 32 bit seems outrageous).

 

Unleashed did help improve animation/movement lag. It also boosted fps on fleet by 10 or so (to 40), and got 110 fps looking at the ground. That said, I do get the same fps drop/fluctuation when moving (any movement, my toon or others, even with just a handful of players around).

 

Sitting still in Section X Imp base with 3 others in the base, there's a constant fluctuation between 45-55 fps. The program did help with animation lag, so thanks! Just wish my computer was utilized more.

 

Edit: I also have an Corsair 120gb SSD. No improvement with load times, minor fps gains. What's most noticeable with Unleashed is less animation delay and lag (eg. mounting speeder).

Edited November 28, 2012 by Glorfins

[Sziroten]

For not being someone who actually understands everything written in the starting post.... still wanting to improve my game performance with an Alienware M17x R4 with constant FPS drops anywhere (PvP/ PvE), I hope my "problem" is just based on my poor computer knowledge.

 

I downloaded ImDisk and installed it. I have now a Local Disk (R:)

 

When I try to double click it I get an error message telling me

refers to a location that is unavailable

.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[GlassToTheArson]

Dear God that hurt my brain

[Psirebral]

Under the assets section in settings, which ones apply to the warzones. This may be a bit vague but I was hoping to increase performance in WZs.

[Sobai]

Basically, Ram > Hard-drive in speed. As mentioned in the original post and bizarrely named the "SWAP phenomenon", when you have no more memory (ram) to address and use to cache commonly accessed files, Windows falls back to the swap file on your hard-drive which it uses like RAM. Of course, as mentioned, this is much, much slower. Hence using this forces SWTOR to keep the asset file in ram at all times, rather than constantly loading and unloading it, increasing performance.

 

At least, that's what I get from reading the first 3 posts.

 

Seems legit and viable.

 

However, don't bother with the DirectX9 runtimes. This "emulation" theory is an utter myth.

[Paskem]

Because I have only 4 Gb of RAM I am unable to use your improvements.

 

But that doesnt mean I do not support your great effort and good work so far.

 

So let me just say - Thank you good Sir. You are a tribute to community.

[funkiestj]

Under the assets section in settings, which ones apply to the warzones. This may be a bit vague but I was hoping to increase performance in WZs.

 

+1. I'd love to be sure that all my WZ assets are on the RAM drive.

 

P.S. I'm currently using unleashed on 2 PCs (mine and my wife's) and I love it. Kudos to all the creators / contributors.

[exca]

+1. I'd love to be sure that all my WZ assets are on the RAM drive.

 

P.S. I'm currently using unleashed on 2 PCs (mine and my wife's) and I love it. Kudos to all the creators / contributors.

 

Warzones are mentionned in a "spoiler" button in the first post.

Also if you'd like to speed up loading times for warzones, give a try to readyboost in addition. (or to a readyboost like ram software if you have loads of ram, such as AMD's freeware one). It might also help a little unleashed, since it auto detects frequently used little files and cache them. It's limited to 4Gb though, and doesn't speed the first load of data and will cost you a bit of cpu power as a tradeof.

[exca]

For not being someone who actually understands everything written in the starting post.... still wanting to improve my game performance with an Alienware M17x R4 with constant FPS drops anywhere (PvP/ PvE), I hope my "problem" is just based on my poor computer knowledge.

 

I downloaded ImDisk and installed it. I have now a Local Disk (R:)

 

When I try to double click it I get an error message telling me .

 

What am I doing wrong?

I can't help unless you give me more details. Such as what your PC is, which OS you run, and what have you exactly done?

[exca]

OK, still getting the error. There are 4396 new instances of it in the event log in the past 24 hours.

Full details:

 

The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: SWTOR_RAM, DeviceName: \Device\ImDisk2.

({No Disk}

There is no disk in the drive.

Please insert a disk into drive %hs.)

 

- System

 

- Provider

 

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs

[ Guid] {3FF37A1C-A68D-4D6E-8C9B-F79E8B16C482}

 

EventID 140

 

Version 0

 

Level 3

 

Task 0

 

Opcode 0

 

Keywords 0x8000000000000008

 

- TimeCreated

 

[ SystemTime] 2012-11-27T21:47:00.077254200Z

 

EventRecordID 61069

 

Correlation

 

- Execution

 

[ ProcessID] 4

[ ThreadID] 1304

 

Channel System

 

- EventData

 

VolumeId SWTOR_RAM

DeviceName \Device\ImDisk2

Error 0xc0000013

 

 

 

As for the second error:

 

 

The default transaction resource manager on volume SWTOR_RAM encountered a non-retryable error and could not start. The data contains the error code.

 

- System

 

- Provider

 

[ Name] Ntfs

 

- EventID 137

 

[ Qualifiers] 49156

 

Level 2

 

Task 2

 

Keywords 0x80000000000000

 

- TimeCreated

 

[ SystemTime] 2012-11-27T21:44:06.109434300Z

 

EventRecordID 60951

 

Channel System

 

 

Security

 

 

- EventData

 

 

SWTOR_RAM

1C0004000200300002000000890004C000000000130000C000000000000000000000000000000000130000C0

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Binary data:

 

 

In Words

 

0000: 0004001C 00300002 00000002 C0040089

0008: 00000000 C0000013 00000000 00000000

0010: 00000000 00000000 C0000013

 

 

In Bytes

 

0000: 1C 00 04 00 02 00 30 00 ......0.

0008: 02 00 00 00 89 00 04 C0 ....‰..À

0010: 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 C0 .......À

0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0028: 13 00 00 C0 ...À

 

 

What are your computer and OS? What did you do exactly? Where do you see/get this error?

[Sziroten]

I can't help unless you give me more details. Such as what your PC is, which OS you run, and what have you exactly done?

 

It's an Alienware 17x R4 with Windows 7.

 

I installed ImDisk which created a virtual drive R.

After that I set up the ImDisk via this website suggested in the ImDisk faq. Now, as I've never created a virtual drive before.... does it work like a "real" drive, so I can access/ create folders inside etc. or is it something different? The reason I'm asking this question is because when I double click on the drive I can't open it. The reason I originally wanted to open it was to check if there was a temp folder inside....

[exca]

It's an Alienware 17x R4 with Windows 7.

 

I installed ImDisk which created a virtual drive R.

After that I set up the ImDisk via this website suggested in the ImDisk faq. Now, as I've never created a virtual drive before.... does it work like a "real" drive, so I can access/ create folders inside etc. or is it something different? The reason I'm asking this question is because when I double click on the drive I can't open it. The reason I originally wanted to open it was to check if there was a temp folder inside....

Make sure you have Windows x64.

Uninstall Imdisk. Reboot. Install the imdisk provided in my zip (i didn't update the provided one with the one on the author site from the 2nd november). Then follow the install guide in the original post.

Edited November 29, 2012 by exca

[DarthVitrial]

What are your computer and OS? What did you do exactly? Where do you see/get this error?

 

 

Computer: Acer V3-771G.

OS: Windows 8 Pro x64.

This error appears in the event log when I turn my PC on the day after using SWTOR Unleashed.

 

On another note, is Unleashed going to be updated for the new Imdisk? There's a chance that might fix this error.

[Murahjazz]

Its ironic a person from the community had to come along and fix biowares game to make it playable

 

Thank you will test when new ram arrives!

[exca]

Computer: Acer V3-771G.

OS: Windows 8 Pro x64.

This error appears in the event log when I turn my PC on the day after using SWTOR Unleashed.

 

On another note, is Unleashed going to be updated for the new Imdisk? There's a chance that might fix this error.

Maybe, but not very soon. Please use the imdisk installer I provide in my zip rather than the very latest one from author's site and tell me if it helped.

[Theagg]

Odd, I can't get SWTOR unleashed to run.

 

I have had no problems setting the Ramdisk and copying in files via the modified batch file method but now I have decided to try using Unleashed instead, it keeps throwing errors at me when I click save, apply and close.

 

Error boxes are, as follows.

 

"The Device is not Ready"

"Setting RamDrive=[R] is taken already. Please selecy another drive letter.

"Please choose valid settings so they can be saved"

 

Imdisk (that came with Unleashed) is installed. There is no drive R already on my system, the message about Drive letter R is the same no matter what letter I choose.

 

I'm obviously missing out something simple here (but there are a lot of back posts to try to read through to find out if this has been mentioned before and my assumption is that once Imdisk is installed , I then don't have to mannually set up the Ramdisk, Unleashed does that, correct ?

 

Windows 7 x64 16GB RAM.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Theagg

[exca]

Odd, I can't get SWTOR unleashed to run.

 

I have had no problems setting the Ramdisk and copying in files via the modified batch file method but now I have decided to try using Unleashed instead, it keeps throwing errors at me when I click save, apply and close.

 

Error boxes are, as follows.

 

"The Device is not Ready"

"Setting RamDrive=[R] is taken already. Please selecy another drive letter.

"Please choose valid settings so they can be saved"

 

Imdisk (that came with Unleashed) is installed. There is no drive R already on my system, the message about Drive letter R is the same no matter what letter I choose.

 

I'm obviously missing out something simple here (but there are a lot of back posts to try to read through to find out if this has been mentioned before and my assumption is that once Imdisk is installed , I then don't have to mannually set up the Ramdisk, Unleashed does that, correct ?

 

Windows 7 x64 16GB RAM.

Can you post here your log file? Are you using the latest version of unleashed? Do you use the included imdisk installer? Have you tried in settings to choose another drive letter than R?

[Theagg]

Can you post here your log file? Are you using the latest version of unleashed? Do you use the included imdisk installer? Have you tried in settings to choose another drive letter than R?

 

Yes, included Imdisk installer was used and yes, tried different drive letter but the error message still popped up saying letter R is already taken. Ie, it keeps mentioning R even though I try other drive letters.

 

log as follows

 

 

 

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [uSER] SetupViewModel.OnSaveClick()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] RamDrive.Remove()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] RamDrive.Exists()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] DriveManager.Exists(driveLetter=R)

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [ERROR] RamDrive.Remove() Exception : The device is not ready.

 

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [ERROR] Tools.ShowError() The device is not ready.

 

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Setup.IsValid()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Settings.IsCurrentComputerSettings()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Swtor.IsValidGameDirectory()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Swtor.IsValidGameDirectory(directory=E:\Games\Star Wars-The Old Republic)

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] DriveManager.Exists(driveLetter=R)

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [WARNING] Tools.ShowWarning() Setting RamDriveLetter=[R] is taken already.

Please select another drive letter.

2012-11-29 20:21:09 [ERROR] Tools.ShowError() Please choose valid settings so they can be saved.

 

[exca]

Yes, included Imdisk installer was used and yes, tried different drive letter but the error message still popped up saying letter R is already taken. Ie, it keeps mentioning R even though I try other drive letters.

 

log as follows

 

 

 

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [uSER] SetupViewModel.OnSaveClick()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] RamDrive.Remove()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] RamDrive.Exists()

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [METHOD] DriveManager.Exists(driveLetter=R)

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [ERROR] RamDrive.Remove() Exception : The device is not ready.

 

2012-11-29 20:21:06 [ERROR] Tools.ShowError() The device is not ready.

 

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Setup.IsValid()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Settings.IsCurrentComputerSettings()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Swtor.IsValidGameDirectory()

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] Swtor.IsValidGameDirectory(directory=E:\Games\Star Wars-The Old Republic)

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [METHOD] DriveManager.Exists(driveLetter=R)

2012-11-29 20:21:08 [WARNING] Tools.ShowWarning() Setting RamDriveLetter=[R] is taken already.

Please select another drive letter.

2012-11-29 20:21:09 [ERROR] Tools.ShowError() Please choose valid settings so they can be saved.

Seems to me your log isn't complete since it lacks some rows here and there while i tried tracking it in the source code.

Try to uninstall imdisk completely, reboot, redownload latest unleashed, install the included imdisk, reboot and launch again SWTOR unleashed.

[DJThomas]

Wow... Thanks to all who made this program! I currently have 12 GB of RAM in my system, and before i installed this program, i was running the game at about mid range graphics settings with an average of 40 FPS... with the same settings on, and running the SWTOR unleashed program, my performance jumped to a whopping 95 FPS!!! Excellent job folks, keep up the good work!

[omNOMNOMinator]

Does this make warzones run smoothly? I've never in my life seen warzones run smoothly.

[skiibyrd]

Why does this look like a scam?

[exca]

Does this make warzones run smoothly? I've never in my life seen warzones run smoothly.

Well give it a try

[exca]

Why does this look like a scam?

With hundred of people using it for monthes, rated only 5 stars, and authorized by BioWare you still think it is? It's your choice.

Edited November 30, 2012 by exca

[Nozybidaj]

Very impressive. I can't say I've ever had performance issue, TOR isn't exactly what I would have called a resource intensive game as the graphics are rather undemanding (to put it nicely as I can), but I suppose folks on lighter systems probably get a lot out of this. Thumbs up to the creators for sharing something like this with the community.