You can capture monsters in the main series too but its not through a device, its closer to SMT series than Pokemon (i.e DQ3 and DQ8 I know do this, but by defeating monsters and asking if you want them to join or not).

...I think I've heard that this is actually a legit strategy for some software, where you just load the whole database into memory so you don't have to do relatively slow reads from the database.

I read people talking about RAM disks many years ago, before even SATA SSDs launched, but I've never known someone that had actually done it.

I'm going to guess that it's no longer worth it nowadays thanks to the NVMe drives we have.

Rift Apart is beautiful on PC. Running 4k quality DLSS, max settings with RT at high. Getting 100 to 120 fps. RT very high trips it down to 70 to 90.

Great game. Really enjoy the humor and leveling system.

Planning to play it on my PS5 soon which I got it recently when it on sale.

I'll get it on Steam eventually - my current PC wont be able to play it at high resolution/framerates ;/

I was thinking of setting up a new build this year but this year there's been too many expenses (and even more coming) so I'm gonna have to wait at least another year or two.

I don't bother anymore as SSD durability is plenty for my uses these days but when I first started using a SSD, I would use a Ramdisk for all my temp folders, cookies, and page file (because windows can be dumb and complain when page files disabled even through I had more then enough ram to not need it).  The thinking at the time was preventing all these tiny writes/reads to/from the SSD that would reduce it life span.  Sata SSD's was expensive back when I did that and there was still a lot of concern about how long a SSD could last.

As for performance, I think most software fairly good a caching important stuff to ram if it available anyway so not sure there a huge performance increase using a ram disk that would be worth the trouble of setting it up and maintaining.

I played the ps5 version back around launch.  Looks and plays great.  The performance mode is great.  It also supports 120 hz.  Just a darn good game.  

Interesting. When I read about it was for the speed and responsiveness that a RAM drive gave over the slow mechanical drives or even the fast Velociraptors.

Makes sense to use A RAM disk to save read/writes on SSDs back then, even if now we use drives that have a fraction of the endurance and are ok with it. Sometimes it's weird how things change.

Thanks for sharing.

I was just reading over at Tom's Hardware that FF16 native 1440p ultra settings runs at 50 to 70 fps with a 4090. What a God awful game engine. Might wait for a sale before jumping.

I was wondering how 1440p would fare, but god that sounds terrible.

But tbh though, I've always kinda seen SE PC ports as being overrated, botched port jobs that happen to cost more a year later. My 1080ti+6700k and 16gb DDR4 RAM should have had not many issues with FF XV, but it did somehow (stuttering, sharp FPS drops, and that's without the stupid Nvidia Fur tech turned on).

SE really need to sit back and actually cook with their PC ports, because the only one I've not really had any issues with is their MMO.