[olddriedseaweed]

I may not understand your response. The following explanation is somewhat simplistic, I don't mean to insult anyone.

To explain more fully, I'll take a windows 10 installation as an example.
Windows 10 will use approximately 8Gb of Ram. Anything else running on the computer will of course require some RAM, but to simplify the explanation, we'll just stick with the OS for now.

So you have a Win 10 computer with 16Gb RAM, and you've allocated 8Gb to the OS. Maximum RAMDisk is 8Gb. Trying to create a larger RAMDrive will (or Should) flag an error for insufficient resources.

Keep in mind, when you're running SH3 without a RAMDisk, the OS uses the hard drive as memory - the page file. Transferring data to and from the page file is what makes loading an up to date, heavily modded version of SH3 take so much time.

a RAMDisk isn't a necessity, it's a convenience.