Windows 2 drives

[rob1101]

Would it give any performance boost if I put all my system files on one drive and installed all of my games on another drive? Or would it in fact make the performance worse?

ps. This is a windows system that i use only for games.

[LaRoza]

You can install programs to any partition or disk (preferably NTFS). The biggest performance gain will be by putting the page file on another disk.

Installing programms to another disk may help, but the page file is what should be moved.

I have my swap file (for Linux) on a different disk, although it is never used as far as I can tell, and I disabled the page file for Windows.

[rob1101]

is there a way to share windows and linux swap? or is it more trouble than its worth?

[LaRoza]

is there a way to share windows and linux swap? or is it more trouble than its worth?

It isn't possible as far as I know.

[rickyjones]

If you have two drives then moving the page file, as other have said, will yield a performance boost. Installing the games on the fastest hard drive would yield the biggest boost to performance if that is all that you are looking for.

Thanks,
Richard

[3rdalbum]

Get shedloads of RAM and put your game on a Ramdisk; I think that should add a speed boost, but probably not a huge one except for load times.