Running the game without disc

Stealhead · 05-23-09, 01:57 PM

I have always wondered with a PC game that can be run sans disk does this make your PC work harder or not? I mean by having the disk in anyway does the data get processed faster off the disk or off your hard drive? Or does it really make a diffrence. Never knew SH4 worked without the DVD but I have IL-2 1946 and that can be run with or without the disk but it seems that the game runs ever so slightly better with the DVD in. Anyone else notice that?(i have a quad core and 3gb ram and Nvidia 8800 GT so well above IL-2 reqs and no issue with SH4's either) Never any issues with SH4 though IL-2 sans dvd can act buggy at times.

05-23-09, 01:57 PM	#5
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I have always wondered with a PC game that can be run sans disk does this make your PC work harder or not? I mean by having the disk in anyway does the data get processed faster off the disk or off your hard drive? Or does it really make a diffrence. Never knew SH4 worked without the DVD but I have IL-2 1946 and that can be run with or without the disk but it seems that the game runs ever so slightly better with the DVD in. Anyone else notice that?(i have a quad core and 3gb ram and Nvidia 8800 GT so well above IL-2 reqs and no issue with SH4's either) Never any issues with SH4 though IL-2 sans dvd can act buggy at times.