FFXiV running from ramdrive?

[Maxcrafter]

Anyone tried this? I'd imagine not much improvement for the fuss; since system SSD storage is likely fast enough. That said, any examples info (tried this, saw that) appreciated. Tia, Shooter

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

As in... the entire game copied to some partition crafted entirely from RAM? I'd consider the odds unlikely that anyone has tried it, considering the game on my storage shows up as just under 66GB, plus you need overhead to run the game and operating system and I can't imagine too many people out there have that kind of memory in their system and it's much cheaper to just buy M.2 storage which runs pretty darned fast.

[Sove92]

Even if you had the RAM to do this, it wouldn't benefit you over an SSD. Not only can the game not load you to a new zone etc. faster than the server can, there is also an arbitrary minimum loading time of about 2 seconds, regardless of how fast you can actually load.

[Johners]

Given that you'd need over 64GB of RAM, which on any dual channel platform puts you at 128GB given how you buy RAM modules, you'd also have to be on a CPU/motherboard platform that's really new. You'd remove any storage bottleneck long before running it entirely from RAM. Even a SATA SSD pretty much removes all storage bottlenecks this game has. It wouldn't be very interesting beyond doing an LTT-style clickbait YouTube video and thumbnail.