i dont have a 16GB thumb drive.. but i do have multiple 4GB thumb drive....
i wonder if i spread all the mpq files onto different thumb drives.. and create symbolic links for each mpq file... will it further improve the performance?

no... you misunderstood what i meant... i meant symbolic link for individual files.

I don't want to waste money to buy yet another thumb drive... so this is what i did...

Instead of linking the folder directory i had created soft link for all the major mpq files onto 2 different thumb drive.

My poor man solution:

On drive N: ( 4GB only )
symbolic link created for d:\games\Diablo III\Data_D3\PC\MPQs\ClientData.mpq <<===>> n:\ClientData.mpq
symbolic link created for d:\games\Diablo III\Data_D3\PC\MPQs\enUS_Cutscene.mpq <<===>> n:\enUS_Cutscene.mpq

On drive M: ( 4GB only )
symbolic link created for d:\games\Diablo III\Data_D3\PC\MPQs\enUS_Audio.mpq <<===>> m:\enUS_Audio.mpq
symbolic link created for d:\games\Diablo III\Data_D3\PC\MPQs\Sound.mpq <<===>> m:\Sound.mpq
symbolic link created for d:\games\Diablo III\Data_D3\PC\MPQs\Texture.mpq <<===>> m:\Texture.mpq


I left other files intact since there is not enough space to link the smaller files into both thumb drive.

It worked unexpectedly well though....

Perhaps it will work even better if you have 3rd drive to link those smaller files and the sub-folders.


this is my folder layout:



This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Jun 25 2012, 09:02 PM

how much does a Kingston DT ultimate 3.0 cost? I dont think you will feel any significant differences with it. I believe it is the random access time that matter most.
One of my thumb drive is kinda aged and only have about 4MB/s transfer speed at maximum speed, however the loading screen just took about 1~2 seconds.