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Optimizing factorio startup performance when running on a hard disk (aa55.dev)
submitted 3 weeks ago by KernelPanic@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This isn’t storing the game in RAM; it’s caching it — which isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want fast load times and do any sort of substantial disk IO between system boot and game launch.

Not tryna get too analytical on a meme post, but tmpfs is the correct way to do this for anyone wanting to pull this sorta thing off seriously.