De-fragging after lotsa installs

GuyuteGuyute Gamehenge
edited September 2004 in Hardware
Hi All,

I am curious- I just read the readme file in my UT2004 folder (had the game 2 weeks, so NOW I figure they might have something interesting to say...lol) and the developers said something to the effect of when doing a huge install like this game (5 Discs? 6? I forget...) you should defrag after. Should I?

If this is the case then I REALLY need to defrag, because after my primary HDD crashed 2 weeks ago, I have had to install about 12 CD's worth of game files...would this stuff just be scattered everywhere (Far Cry, BF1942 Deluxe, Nitro Family, Firestarter, plus UT2004 and Windows)? I did hear about 2 years ago that the worst culprit for scattering all over a drive is game files, and that saves are the worst of the bunch...is that because they are so dynamic?

Thank you all in advance.

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    No, it's because the core files themselves are huge.

    Yes, you should definitely do a full defrag with all that stuff on there. I would recommend downloading a trial version of Diskeeper 8.0 (i think it's a 30 day trial) to do a very thorough one-time defrag. Get the professional version so that you can do boot-time defrag, which will defrag your pagefile and everything.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    call me anal but I defrag after any and every install.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited September 2004
    Hello Anal, nice to meet you. :)



    To be honest, I defrag every few months when I get the urge...like Herbal Essence, only not. Defragging makes very little difference in speed, and maybe a little bit in disk usage...
  • GuyuteGuyute Gamehenge
    edited September 2004
    Thanks for the answers, all.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited September 2004
    Depending on just how fragmented the disk is it can make a substantial differance in speed. But it would have to be very fragmented. I defrag every week or so but only on the main two scsi drives my os and user files are on. The two 120gb ide's that hold downloads, iso's and mp3's go a couple months easy without defragging

    Tex
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Maybe 3 times a year for me, or whenever I notice a HUGE decrease in system performance
  • GuyuteGuyute Gamehenge
    edited September 2004
    I just finished and I have not had time to notice a speed difference. Funny thing, though, I was watching the little status bar at the bottom, and maybe it's no coincidence, but anytime I looked it was moving a UT2004 file... LOL- guess it was worth it...thanks for the help, all!!
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