Feedback on FancyCache.
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:06 am
First off I suppose system information and specs are in order for you to understand what kind of system this was tested on.
Home-Built computer, Intel I7-based.
Intel I7-920 Processor (quad core + hyper-threading), overclocked @ 3800mhz
6gb (6x1gb) Patriot Viper DDR3-1600mhz ram (running @ 1448mhz).
5 * 160gb Western Digital SATA-II hard drives in RAID-0 (striping), using onboard Intel ICH10R chipset, with Write Buffering enabled (System is on a large UPS).
2 * Radeon HD4890 Video cards.
Asus P6T (Original, not WS, not ultimate) x-58 based Intel LGA-1366 motherboard.
Windows7 64-Bit Ultimate
2 screens - extended desktop.
Samsung 2243swx 21.5" 1080p LCD - primary screen.
Cheap Dell 19" CRT @ 1600x1200 - secondary.
Now.. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to try your program was because a new PC game called "RAGE" came out recently and I've done some testing about it's stuttering and poor performance, and watched windows task manager on my second screen while playing, and noticed 'Hard Drive Active time' was at 80% - 99% just driving around in the world.
Well, then I downloaded FanyCache and alloted 3gb of ram to it as a test, let it do it's thing (whatever it does) and then re-ran RAGE.
First 5 minutes of playing, hard drive active time on the primary hard drive raid array was still rather high hovering around 80%, cache read hit rate was at 20% in FancyCache
About 7-8 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was averaging around 50%, cache read hit rate was around 75%.
About 10 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was 0% - 5%, and remained there the entire time I had the game open, cache read hit rate was around 90% - 95%.
Not only that, but the random stuttering was completely eliminated and the game now flows at a solid 60 FPS at all times outdoors or indoors.
I've seen similar improvements in games like Skyrim, oblivion, and Half-Life 2, it takes about 7-10 minutes once the game starts before noticing but after a little while gaming, the load times between areas are deffinetely very quick to nearly instant.
Edit: I was using 64kb block size for all tests.
I ordered a 24gb set of ram on NewEgg earlier this evening, and I'll do some more testing to see what FancyCache can do on this system with 16gb - 20gb of cache to work with.
First impressions: I really like this software, and I'll buy a license as long as it's not too expensive.
Home-Built computer, Intel I7-based.
Intel I7-920 Processor (quad core + hyper-threading), overclocked @ 3800mhz
6gb (6x1gb) Patriot Viper DDR3-1600mhz ram (running @ 1448mhz).
5 * 160gb Western Digital SATA-II hard drives in RAID-0 (striping), using onboard Intel ICH10R chipset, with Write Buffering enabled (System is on a large UPS).
2 * Radeon HD4890 Video cards.
Asus P6T (Original, not WS, not ultimate) x-58 based Intel LGA-1366 motherboard.
Windows7 64-Bit Ultimate
2 screens - extended desktop.
Samsung 2243swx 21.5" 1080p LCD - primary screen.
Cheap Dell 19" CRT @ 1600x1200 - secondary.
Now.. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to try your program was because a new PC game called "RAGE" came out recently and I've done some testing about it's stuttering and poor performance, and watched windows task manager on my second screen while playing, and noticed 'Hard Drive Active time' was at 80% - 99% just driving around in the world.
Well, then I downloaded FanyCache and alloted 3gb of ram to it as a test, let it do it's thing (whatever it does) and then re-ran RAGE.
First 5 minutes of playing, hard drive active time on the primary hard drive raid array was still rather high hovering around 80%, cache read hit rate was at 20% in FancyCache
About 7-8 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was averaging around 50%, cache read hit rate was around 75%.
About 10 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was 0% - 5%, and remained there the entire time I had the game open, cache read hit rate was around 90% - 95%.
Not only that, but the random stuttering was completely eliminated and the game now flows at a solid 60 FPS at all times outdoors or indoors.
I've seen similar improvements in games like Skyrim, oblivion, and Half-Life 2, it takes about 7-10 minutes once the game starts before noticing but after a little while gaming, the load times between areas are deffinetely very quick to nearly instant.
Edit: I was using 64kb block size for all tests.
I ordered a 24gb set of ram on NewEgg earlier this evening, and I'll do some more testing to see what FancyCache can do on this system with 16gb - 20gb of cache to work with.
First impressions: I really like this software, and I'll buy a license as long as it's not too expensive.