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Opinions on this new PC Aviatior software

Hi,

I also got the email where they advertise this thing ("... the holy grail of improving performance" and such) and frankly thought that it was a steaming pile of... Anyway, the hyperbole should be interpreted as a warning label. Usually if software is advertised like this is one can be sure that it's nonsense. There have been way too many "performance tools" that promised a magical performance increase and most turned out to be BS.

After reading some of the description it seems that this software stores frequently used files on a fast drive (i.e. SSD) in order to make access to those files faster than if they were stored on a conventional harddrive. Perhaps this makes sense for certain applications, but I really don't see how this would improve performance in FSX/P3D in any significant way. A big chunk of data is loaded when the flight is started, and then the sim grabs all additional data as you fly along. Even if this loading of data (which is continuous) would hamper performance in any way, which is unlikely, caching any data would make no sense at all unless you always fly between the same two airports along exactly the same route.
I may be wrong, as I don't have much technical knowledge in this area, but my gut tells me that this is all BS.

I like PCAviator and have frequently bought from their store, but if they feel the need to advertise something like this I'll stay clear of them in the future.

Cheers,
Steve
 
Windows vista and above can do this automatically, provided you enable it. It's called ReadyBoost, and is built into the operating system.
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Don Quixote said:
Hi,

I also got the email where they advertise this thing ("... the holy grail of improving performance" and such) and frankly thought that it was a steaming pile of... Anyway, the hyperbole should be interpreted as a warning label. Usually if software is advertised like this is one can be sure that it's nonsense. There have been way too many "performance tools" that promised a magical performance increase and most turned out to be BS.

After reading some of the description it seems that this software stores frequently used files on a fast drive (i.e. SSD) in order to make access to those files faster than if they were stored on a conventional harddrive. Perhaps this makes sense for certain applications, but I really don't see how this would improve performance in FSX/P3D in any significant way. A big chunk of data is loaded when the flight is started, and then the sim grabs all additional data as you fly along. Even if this loading of data (which is continuous) would hamper performance in any way, which is unlikely, caching any data would make no sense at all unless you always fly between the same two airports along exactly the same route.
I may be wrong, as I don't have much technical knowledge in this area, but my gut tells me that this is all BS.

I like PCAviator and have frequently bought from their store, but if they feel the need to advertise something like this I'll stay clear of them in the future.

Cheers,
Steve
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Thanks for the response and detailed explanation Don!
 
"It slices! It dices! Make julienne potatoes this fast! How much would you expect to pay for this great flight sim software? Don't answer yet, there's more..." :biggrin-new: So PC Aviator is excited about their product, I don't mind a little hyperbole in the advertising. If PrimoCache can improve the performance of my FSX set-up without my having to resort to more expensive hardware upgrades (besides a SSD) I'd be inclined to try it out. I appreciate Don Quixote's assessment because some of the terms in the PC Aviator description kinda went over my head without even making a touch-and-go. Since I am tech-challenged I'll need to see a review first before buying.
 
I fell for it, pad my money, and was really surprised. When I booted my PC THERE IT WAS...The HOLY GRAIL!!
Sorry all..just couldn't help it....too many references to the Holy Grail tend to set me off.
I really would like to know if the program is worth the hype..but hasn't it been around for a couple of years?
 
Well, you not only need to buy the software but you need some hardware too. Either an SSD or fairly large 3.0 flash drive. I'm not a hardware pricing expert but I think the whole thing would be around $80-100. And how much would it help if at all? Kind of like people who get 16 gig of ram when FSX doesn't really use more than about eight. If they offered a money back on the whole thing, I might be interested but that's all.
 
rich12545 said:
Well, you not only need to buy the software but you need some hardware too. Either an SSD or fairly large 3.0 flash drive. I'm not a hardware pricing expert but I think the whole thing would be around $80-100. And how much would it help if at all? Kind of like people who get 16 gig of ram when FSX doesn't really use more than about eight. If they offered a money back on the whole thing, I might be interested but that's all.
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FSX is a 32 bit program...it wouldn't even know what 8gig of ram was....neither would a 32bit OS....;)

BTW...I have 32gig of DDR4 [Corsair Dominator Platinum [4x8G] 2666MHz]...but that's not for FSX, it's for FSX and 8 instances of PSP and 6 instances of DTXBmp [and a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time].

I want to know how many snakes had to die to make this snake oil...;)
 
I got the initial email, and today the second one.

As this is not how a product usually is presented, I didn't click on the link, and was going to email PCAviator to find out is the email was legit.

I never had problems with purchases from PCAviator, but this email correspondence certainly made all alarm bells go off.
 
Holy Grail dosen't exist.... Especially on the advertising ;). I know only the one way - change a hardware :mixed-smiley-010: .
 
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dhazelgrove said:
It doesn't do anything for my performance, I'm afraid.

Dave
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Kind of what I expected. At best, I assumed the software might reduce load times, but apparently they are just doing mundane caching for texture loads. Most modern systems can handle this quite fine.
 
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