Need technical breakdown of windows Vista Ready Boost please

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Darksylum

Posted 4/21/2008 10:28 PM

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone could give me a more detaild explanation as to what ready boost actualy does. I know it acts as a sort of virtual memory or pagefile I am guessing? does it only help with load times of programs or is there a more detaild change it makes to help. I have 4 gigs of ram and I have my pagefile set to 4gigs of hard disk space. I am running windows vista sp1 and do not have many background programs running. I found a good deal on a 2 gig SD card that many have said works well with ready boost and I was thinking of ordering it but want to know what good it would do. Will it help my in game performance any or would it just waste a perfectly good storage option for nothing? Please feel free to get technical on the details as to what It actualy does. I am sure I will understand.

also is there a good tweak that can help boost graphics performance. I know most of my limitaion is in the gpu itself and only thing I know of that can help that is driver updates but does anyone else know a good secret to make games run a little smoother in vista?

thanks a bunch for any help you can offer!

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Berton

Posted 5/1/2008 12:04 PM

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would it just waste a perfectly good storage option for nothing?

You can still use it for storage and Vista will use whatever space is left for ReadyBoost.

You show a 64-bit CPU but are you running the 64-bit version of Vista? The 32-bit version of Vista does have issues with more than about 3.5GB RAM the the 64-bit version doesn't and that could impact the games/programs.

http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-maximum-memory-in-32-bit-windows-vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

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Allan

Posted 5/1/2008 2:48 PM

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The primary purpose of readyboost is to provide additional storage area for Superfetch to cache files. Since USB memory is faster than the HD, access to these cached files is more efficient and should make loading programs speedier.

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