I seem to have the problem that it stops caching after playing a game like FIFA09 or Call of Duty WaW and i can not re-activate the cache so i have to reboot the system to enable caching again….
note: this only happens if i’ve set the cache device on my RAM
just checked the control panel as my system seemed a little bit slower loading cached programs (so it does make a difference), And I found that it seems to think it’s allocated size is 805306368MB http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eboostr1od6.jpg
I hadn’t realised that the Eboostr Ram cache seemed to sit on top of my Ram disk. This surprised me as I thought that Windows (XP Pro SP3) would stop this happening. The Ram disk ceased to exist. I uninstalled the Ram disk and installed it again hoping that the Eboostr Ram cache would get created first and the Ram disk second with the Ram disk being allocated Ram other than that used by Eboostr cache.
This strategy works.
Hi,
On one of my Vista machines with multiple HDDs, eBoostr cache the $Recycle.bin folders across multiple HDDs. I think those folders should be excluded automatically.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am not sure if neccessary to report because I am using a very old version 2.1.1.0 of Disk Defragmenter Plus (http://www.abexo.com/defrag.htm) that serve my needs.
It’s not possible to be used while eBoostr (latest beta 471) is active. The system shuts down and reboot “normally” so no Checkdisk during boot running and of course no disk defragmenting what should take part after booting with checkdisk and log-in but before showing any icon on the Desktop.
Running Disk Defragmenter with active eBoostr simply reboot the system without any error message.
Setting eBoostr to pause via Edit > Stop caching solves the problem, no more erros and Disk Defragmenter Pro Plus 2.1.1.0 runs fine as usual. This problem does not occur with eBooster 2.x.
BTW: the formerly reported error about the “Last cache/disk hit ratio” flipping between 1/3rd and 2/3rd showing on the eBoostr Control Panel and also on the Systray-Icon all the time after adding “Sytem Memory” is still present in beta 3.0 build 471 on my system with WinXP-sp3 on PCChips M848ALU v2.1 board using AthlonXP3200 and 1,5GB DDR(1)SDRAM (256MB RAm allocated to eBoostr, also happens with 128MB assigned)
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I am not sure if interesting or simply a local error: already in the last beta my system has gone instable showing crashes from Windows Spooler Service (configured auto restarting) all the time (about 10 minutes) and also often errors of winspool, Event Viewer shows: winspool.drv, version 5.1.2600.5512, fault address 0x00004a9d.
I belive I fixed this problem by reformatting my USB-Stick and recreating the cache file using an 8GB USB-stick/NTFS-formatted which is used by eBoostr about 30% of the stick (100% allocated to eBoostr).
In addition I was not able to open “Computer Management” because initialising of the snap in failed. Setting eBoostr to Paused works sometimes if I disable caching directly after booting up. Because no error except the initialisation error I cannot confirm that it was caused by eBoostr but suspiciously the problem occured while eBoostr was active.
The last two problem have already occured in the former beta and might be a result of adding and removing system memory to eBoostr, at least not occuring anymore sice formatting the stick.
There appears to be a driver conflict with Raxco Perfectdisk Defragmenter. Perfectdisk has a feature called Boot Defrag. It allows defragmentation of system files which are normally locked after Windows is fully loaded. After installing the latest eboostr beta, boot defrag would fail on one of my disks. The error message stated a driver conflict prevented Perfectdisk from accessing the drive. Please note, I have 5 hard drives on my system. I have 2 permanent fixed page files. One is located on my boot drive (C), and the other is located on my F drive. Boot defrag finishes successfully on my C drive, but always fails on my F drive with eboostr installed. Once ebooster is uninstalled, boot defrag finishes on both drives. I have tested this with 2 versions of Perfectdisk, version 8, and the latest version 2008. They have a trial version available on their website which you can use for testing. I am running Vista SP1. BTW, excellent software, hope you can work these bugs out as it really does speedup my most used programs
greetings!
i write this post to inform you that i no longer use windows as my operating system. i finally made the definitive jump into linux system, so i cannot test eBoostr any more. i would to thank you all for the great job you do. may i hope in future linux release?… ;)
obsidian
When coming out of Standby in Windows XP Service Pack 2 32bit verison the flash drive running the cache file is not found in Eboostr and requires a restart to bring it back online.
Removing the flashdrive and reinsert and choose to build new file from control panel does not work.
Reboot to fix is required.
I went from using verison 2.0.2 to Beta 3 and noticed a Firefox launch slowdown even tho it is also in the priority list.
Otherwise run’s great.
Hi,
adding apps to the ‘accelerated applications’ list via drag & drop from desktop doesn’t work if the respective application is already in the ‘applications found’ list.In my particular case Lotus Notes 8 (notes.exe) was erroneously listed as Notes 7, so I tried to d&d the desktop shortcut into the accelerated apps list, but that didn’t work (I had to use the available Notes 7 item). However d&d of apps that are not listed in the apps found list could be successfully added to the accelerated apps list. WinXP SP2 / 2GB RAM.
