PrimoCache?

[newtie 533]

Any have any experience with this?

 

http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/register.html#extend

 

I'm assuming it's a non-starter as I found very few references to flight simulation.

 

These folks seem to think otherwise...

 

http://www.pcaviator.com/store/

 

Cheers,

Mark

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

I didn't see any references or testimonies as to how this helps with Flight Sim software, did I miss it?

 

I'm fairly sure such a program creates a RAM disk, though they may have found a way to make it a bit better.  I've not heard a peep about it being used with flight sim software.

[zmak 331]

Im pretty sure I read after its installed your supposed to find Orisha Beads. These are worn by all Voodoos to carry the protection and blessings of their favorite Orisha and chant a bit and the magic will happen

 

Here is PC aviators spin on it

 

 

Please read this detailed information carefully and absorb it. This will be the best performance enhancing software you will ever install on your PC.

We here at PC Aviator call this product the Holy Grail of PC performance enhancing software. We have used and tested many such utilities over the years and no other software product gives your system the performance increase that you have literally hoped would be possible for your PC. The performance increase is SIGNIFICANT and it's not so much that it speeds up your PC per se but what it does is bring out the TRUE performance capability of your PC by virtually completely eliminating the biggest bottleneck in your PC's performance and that is your hard drive bottleneck. It also gets rid of any sluggishness you might experience with flying your sims or any other such products that can be hampered by the hard drive bottleneck. It is especially powerful when it comes to using photo scenery such as MegaSceneryEarth that often accesses image data from your hard drive when flying. This reduces loading times and other hard drive activity while flying.

PrimoCache has our endorsement as the Holy Grail of software (along with a bit of hardware - some of which you most likely already have e.g. a flash drive), that will SIGNIFICANTLY improve the current performance you are experiencing with your PC.

In the flight simulator industry, it is exclusively available through PC Aviator

[vgbaron 3,514]

It appears that if this were true, then anyone with SSD's should be experiencing this "Holy Grail" as they are essentially a ram disk. I fear this is another snake oil product. If you are running a really slow HDD, you might see some loading times get better but I seriously doubt it would be any better than a fast SSD.

 

Vic

[Skywolf 992]

Just my .02 cents and in my industry that I work in - if I hear holy grail, next best thing since slice bread etc - I run and my team runs away too.  The product could be great and all, but I don't like seeing those words when product is promoted.

[sgreen91 182]

PC Aviator doesn't mention that if you go to the developers website and download you can use the software for 60 days free in a try before you buy.

[newtie 533]

I noticed that...

[Qatsimo 7]

I tried it! In the benchmarking software everything was like a 1000 times faster than my SSD's speeds. In P3D though everything stayed unchanged. Maybe I missed something.

[TheFlightSimGuy 514]

Kinda sad to see the peddling going on from the PCAviator store. They should know better. 

[ceno 0]

 

 

 

...'nuff said.

[yankeegolf3 51]

hello

 

On the other side of this leaflet, they say that snake oil enhances PC performance too. Nobody has  turned the leaflet over yet...too bad!

 

Joke aside, Robert Ferraro's reputation is at stake on this. I wish he had published technical measurements to sustantiate his claims. Hopefully we will see them shortly.

[vgbaron 3,514]

The issue, as far as FSX/P3D goes is that the HDD is NOT the "bottleneck". If it were, all our problems would have been solved with the SSD. The massive loads on the CPU and GPU and how they communicate are the issue. I can see the program doing just fine in benches but other than possible smoothing out a stutter when the "disk" is accessed - it can't really provide any noticeable performance benefit.

 

Put another way, if anyone sees a LARGE improvement in FSX/P3D on their system after using this, I'd say you had something else wrong with your system.

 

Vic

[baseleg16 2]

I have my operating system and FSX installed on a SSD, and MegaScenery Earth installed on an external usb 3 hard drive.  The system was from very good to excellent as it was.  I installed a second SSD and PrimoCache, thinking that MegaScenery might load faster if some of the external hard drive with the scenery was cached.  This hopeful thinking may have been a misconception on my part regarding the functions of PrimoCache.  When I have several states active in MegaScenery, I have the impression that the scenery does, in fact, load a bit faster, but there is so little difference that it could be just my imagination and wishful thinking at work.  I have seen essentially no improvement in FSX performance.

[Stratocruiser1 134]

I bought the program and installed it on my laptop. I also bought a new 128 mb flash drive to use with it. The laptop has Windows 10 64 byt and I am trying to run P3D V2.5 on it. The hard drive on the laptop is a standard mechanical drive. The system has 4 gb of ram with a 1.2 gb speed on the cpu. The onboard graphics card is a built in Radeon. It is not the best choice to use for P3D, but I am on the road for several months and this is what I have. It does run P3D, but with low FPS even with the sliders left.

I am trying to understand how to set up Primocache v2 to use it just for P3D. The instructions talk about partitioning the flash drive. I tried doing that on an earlier flash drive and then the computer would no longer recognize the drive. The instructions seem to be geared for all kinds of uses except flightsim.  I am looking for someone who uses it to post some instructions and screen shots to show how to set it up.

Thanks.

Howard

[Bob Scott 7,716]

Been using it here for several years.  I have also had FSX/P3D running on a dedicated SSD that long.  A large cache does not make a noticeable difference when running either sim...the ESP scenery engine in FSX/P3D does preemptive lookaheads and preloads scenery from disk, so scenery has already been loaded into memory when needed in most cases (exceptions being large turns and view panning).

 

Where it makes a huge difference is when you do repeated shutdowns and restarts of the sim, as I often do when testing software and/or software configurations.  With 16GB of RAM on the machine, I dedicate 8GB to the cache, and reloads of the sim are downright snappy even compared to loading from a 6Gb/s SATA III SSD.

 

So it's not a panacea, but it is a useful tool in some limited scenarios (but notably not during general use of an ESP-based flight sim).

 

Regards