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Nightmare_Pwner

Need help setting up Arma 2 to use RAMDisk (I know RAMDisk need pathing help)

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Basically my problem is this.

Arma 2 Day Z runs off Arma 2 Combined Operations. An executable that does not technically exist. My assumption is that the game uses the regular Arma 2 executable and Combined Operations is just the games way of saying its running the expansion, (Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead) plus the main game through the main game. If that makes any sense. Damn you Arma 2 developers.

Now my problem is that I want to maximize the performance of the mod itself, (Day Z) using a RAMDisk. Now setting up the RAMDisk is not my issue technically. It is that I need to how to path the games executables to stream off the RAMDisk in order to utilize the speed increases. Now I don't have the room to throw both games in the RAMDisk and launch them directly from there. This would be a non issue if I did. What I can do is simply add one game and the mod to the RAMdisk and stream it. However, I need to know how to path the executable to read the one game installed on the RAMdisk and the other on the physical HD.

I use Six launcher/updater so if that needs special setup to make it all work than we need to factor that in there as well.

If anyone has any insight please feel free to let me know. Ill leave it for now but any help is much appreciated.

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For what purpose? ArmA 2 doesn't nearly bottleneck at the HDD, so that's not going to be a concern.

Combined Operations is technically an Expansion like how DayZ is an "Expansion", and is handled by ArmA 2's Expansion system.

The easiest way is if you had the retail or Amazon version of the game, because then you could install both into a single directory (install ArmA 2, update, run, install OA, update, run, install beta, install DayZ) and then you just run the beta. If you have the Steam version, you may need to copy the folder "Addons" from ArmA 2 into the ArmA 2 OA folder for it to work properly.

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