Make FM2012 temp folder to run in ramdisk - tutorial

When you have at least 8GB RAM, you may want to run FM2012 temporary folder in Ramdisk.

It can be helpful when:

1. Game is installed on HDD and its too loud for you when game constantly writes there.

2. Game is installed on SSD and you dont want to huge 1GB+ writes there.

This method wont make game run faster (theoretically it should, but from my tests it does not)

OK lets start.

First of all you need download and install freeware program "imdisk".

Now somewhere on desktop right click and select new text file.

Edit this file as below:

set temp_dir="C:\***\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\temporary"

imdisk -a -t vm -m R: -o rw,fix,hd -s 2000m -p "/fs:ntfs /q /c /v:RAMDISK /y"

mkdir R:\temporary

xcopy %temp_dir% R:\temporary /e /i /h

rd /s/q %temp_dir%

mklink /D %temp_dir% R:\temporary

start "" "steam://rungameid/71270"

In the first line put in quotes your location of FM2012 temporary directory, it's in your user documents directory, for example:

set temp_dir="C:\Users\name4\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\temporary"

In the second line is "2000m" which means 2GB is reserved in ramdisk, you may want to change it, but set at least 1500m (1,5GB), also "R:" disk letter is reserved, you can change it if you have R: not available.

Now save file as "Mount FM2012 ramdisk.bat"

Close game if you have open , and run new with this file.

You need to run this file only once per windows session, not everytime when open game.

When game is closed you may want to release memory used by imdisk. Use code below, save it as "unmountFM2012 ramdisk.bat" ,put again valid directory location in the first line.

set temp_dir="C:\***\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\temporary"

rd /s/q %temp_dir%

mkdir %temp_dir%

xcopy R:\temporary %temp_dir% /e /i /h

rd /s/q R:\temporary

imdisk.exe -D -m R:

Anyone interested?

Anyone interested?

Please do not bump your own threads- if people are interested they will post.

thx a lot, it work well :lol: