Category: Gamecache

Gamecache Update: Windows Eats Data Edition

January 3, 2021 Freenas Gamecache Gaming Hardware ISCSI Open Source Software Storage Technology 0

That was interesting.  I at least annually wipe my windows boxes to keep the Windows bitrot in check.  Over time windows just gets cruft built up.  Stuff gets installed, uninstalled or never updated and starts causing problems in the background.  These problems can be anything from weird errors, to occasional crashes to the system going… Read more

Gamecache update: Comcast cap avoidance edition

January 1, 2021 Freenas Gamecache Gaming General Hardware ISCSI Open Source 0

I have been posting bout my gamecache setup here at the house.  Well it just got even more important as Comcast has announced data caps across the remainder of its footprint where it had not been enforcing cap.  I now have nearly 1 Terabyte of data on this gamecache drive.  What this means is that… Read more

Gamecache Update: All Games Operational.

January 12, 2020 Gamecache Gaming ISCSI Technology 0

Remember that one game that refused to run on Gamecache?  I decided to disable the onboard nic(Realtek) and order a PCI-E 1X nic for the girls computer.  I ordered 2 on eBay for a total of 12 bucks for two of them and they shipped via the boat so they just arrived a couple of… Read more

GAMECACHE UPDATE

December 30, 2019 Freenas Gamecache Gaming Hardware Open Source Technology 0

So i ordered a  couple of pci-e network cards one for my machine and one for the girls tower.  Let’s see if that helps the eldest’s one game not crash the entire networking stack…:)  Realteks are decent if you aren’t doing heavy networking stuff like I am doing..it will take a couple of weeks for… Read more

All Goes Well With One Exception

November 23, 2019 Gamecache Gaming Open Source Storage Technology 1

So far my eldest has all of her games on the gamecache drive.  Unfortunately ElderScrolls Online refused to run on the Gamecache drive.  It would hang up the network card causing all network connectivity to go away.  Only a restart of the machine would fix it.  However the fact that all of the other games… Read more

GameCache Project Updates

November 22, 2019 Gamecache Open Source Software Storage Technology 0

It is working out better than I anticipated.  Right now the eldest has been installing all of her games on the G drive.  I found out one of her games is nearly 200 Gigs in size.  Holy crap batman.  She can easily chew through more than 400 gigs of storage just with the games she… Read more

Game Caching update

November 19, 2019 Gamecache Software Storage Technology 1

I made an earlier post about an experiment I am running.  So far so good.  The eldest is having to put her games onto the new G drive her computer sees.  The magic of ISCSI makes it appear as a local hard drive even though it’s on a network server.  I am a HUGE fan… Read more

An interesting FreeNAS Experiment

November 19, 2019 Gamecache Hardware Software Storage Technology 2

I came across an interesting use case for FreeNAS.  My eldest daughter likes games that are huge.  Like 100-250 gigabyte huge.  I simply cannot afford to keep adding SSD storage to her machine.  I will not do hard disks as main storage..under Windows 10 it’s too painfully slow.  What Lawerence had done was taken a… Read more