templargfx opened this issue on May 25, 2010 · 19 posts
templargfx posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 5:47 PM
Attached Link: http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/index.html
Hi All,I just thought I'd share my latest discovery with you all.
I have PP2010, and my runtime is well over 40Gb with around 150,000 files in there.
When I started up Poser previously, it would take a good 60+ seconds while it searched my runtime for all the stuff thats in there. It was painfully slow, and my HDD sounded like it was going to have a heart attack!
I recently found an application called O&O Defrag Professional (see Link), you can run this program on a free trial, so doing this yourself will cost you nothing!
After installing, I told the program to do a "COMPLETE - NAME" defrag on my Poser drive. What this does is manually move all of your files on the drive, so that they are physically stored on the disk in alphabetical order!!
If you dont see why thats so good, think about it this way, when Poser wants to read the contents of my runtime, the head in the drive is positioned at the start, and in one smooth sweep of the disk surface it can read the entire thing, there is no need for it to jump back and forth over the drive as it reads the contents.
This took my 60+ second runtime check all the way down to under 5 seconds!
TemplarGFX
3D Hobbyist since 1996
I use poser native units