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by alphamayo
Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:08 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Is there any way to force L2 cache a specific directory?
Replies: 17
Views: 26844

Re: Is there any way to force L2 cache a specific directory?

This is perfect for what I was looking to do. Enables me to pre-cache a game before running it. I hacked together a quick batch file to make it easier to use on different games on my system. All I need to do is copy the file path, leaving quotation marks in place into the location variable and clic...
by alphamayo
Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:04 pm
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: Force preload into L2
Replies: 1
Views: 940

Force preload into L2

A couple ideas. One would be a way to force a file/folder into L2 cache, maybe via context menu or script (list of files/folders to cache). To add on to this, would be profiles, which are simply a list of files or folders to precache you could toggle between. One use of this would be gaming. For exa...
by alphamayo
Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:22 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Somthing toward a "sticky:" Suggestiion for a configuration discussion for various PC usage patterns
Replies: 64
Views: 54969

Re: Somthing toward a "sticky:" Suggestiion for a configuration discussion for various PC usage patterns

What would generally reduce game loads better - an L1+L2 cache and a large block size, or foregoing the L1 cache to use a smaller block size (which requires much more overhead)? In my case going from 64KB to 4KB block size would be 6.5GB of overhead. And is L1 cache FIFO based? For example, let's sa...