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Programming question - OmegaZero_Alpha - Apr 15, 2010
I want to start idling but I don't want to put hundreds and hundreds of hours of unnecesary work hours onto my hard drive (which has been causing a lot of premature failures in idlers that I have seen)
The solution I have found was to load TF2 into a ram disk. I have enough ram, I have already set up a ram disk, but is there a way to run TF2 from a different location than my steam folder so that I won't lose all of my settings when I have to dump this volatile memory?
Programming question - jwstohr - Apr 15, 2010
OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:I want to start idling but I don't want to put hundreds and hundreds of hours of unnecesary work hours onto my hard drive (which has been causing a lot of premature failures in idlers that I have seen)
The solution I have found was to load TF2 into a ram disk. I have enough ram, I have already set up a ram disk, but is there a way to run TF2 from a different location than my steam folder so that I won't lose all of my settings when I have to dump this volatile memory?
I used to run Wolfenstein: ET on a ramdisk a long time ago. Was amazing.
I have never used tf2 and VM together. But you could make a VM image of a tf2 install on xp/vista/win7 with all the settings you need. That way after dumping the ramdisk all you would have to do is drag the image back on it and run it. Again I don't idle, but if it just involves running tf2 minimized, that is how I would do it. Probably is a better way.
Programming question - Ranma - Apr 15, 2010
Running off an image would be a good idea. Better than what i was going to suggest.
Programming question - Drunken F00l - Apr 15, 2010
Close steam, move the cache file to your ram disk, add a symbolic link at the old cache location that points to the cache on your ram disk.
Programming question - Andrik - Apr 16, 2010
using symlinks for sharing tf2 gcfs in local dc++ hub (for those ppl with slow connection)
also juction points are useful when setting up hlds or srcds server with lots of maps but when u need them in another place but u dont have enough space on hdd