{"id":111,"date":"2008-01-26T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/play\/2008\/01\/26\/load_balancing_for_oblivion\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:06:12","slug":"load_balancing_for_oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/01\/26\/load_balancing_for_oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Load balancing for Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great optimization tip picked up on the development thread of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethsoft.com\/bgsforums\/index.php?showtopic=805378&amp;st=0\">Jaga Telesin&#8217;s ORB<\/a>  &#8211; it is possible to spread your .bsa files across multiple hard drives.<br \/>\nSimply create a (short name) folder on other hard-drives you may have in your machine and move heavily used .bsa files to these folders.<br \/>\nFor example, I created a : E:\\TES and G:\\TES folder on two of my additional drives (Oblivion itself is installed on H:\\Games\\Oblivion).<br \/>\nOnce the files are copied in these folders, you still have to edit your Oblivion.ini file to add the new path to the corresponding .bsa files (edit the line with : sArchiveList=).<br \/>\nHere is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethsoft.com\/bgsforums\/index.php?s=&amp;showtopic=799380&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=11621474\">detailed explanation from Jaga<\/a> about this tip.<br \/>\nORB stands for Oblivion Resource Balancing. After the amazing Streamline 3.1, Jaga&#8217;s new project aims at creating a set of .bsa files and distribute them across multiple hard-drives for optimal performance.<br \/>\nThis is one project to watch closely&#8230;<br \/>\nNote:<br \/>\nWhen using multiple hard drives, people should make sure that their Power Management settings are set to Never put hard drives to sleep.<br \/>\nIt should be obvious with hindsight, but I found out that my system was set to put HDs to sleep after 20 minutes, which translated with occasional lags when Oblivion tried to access .bsa files on a drive that needed to be &#8216;awakened&#8217;.<br \/>\nAlso, under Vista, I saved valuable resources by disabling the Indexing service on all unnecessary drives, especially the drives hosting my .bsa files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great optimization tip picked up on the development thread of Jaga Telesin&#8217;s ORB &#8211; it is possible to spread your .bsa files across multiple hard drives. Simply create a (short name) folder on other hard-drives you may have in your machine and move heavily used .bsa files to these folders. For example, I created a : E:\\TES and G:\\TES&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/01\/26\/load_balancing_for_oblivion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,40,43,44,47],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-elder-scrolls","tag-mods","tag-oblivion","tag-optimization","tag-play","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-1N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}