HUGE Improvement in Turn Time!

[Tellos Athenaios]

my turns with EB 1.2 have always been around 1 min to 1:15. well a few months ago i installed a new 1TB hard drive as a storage drive (SATA II drive in a SATA I port). last night i finally got around to moving my RTW install and all associated mods from my old boot drive to the new one...holy crap! my turns in EB went down to 25-30 sec!!

Well I'd guess you went up from 5400rpm to 7200rpm and the former is no contender with the latter all other things being equal (and I presume they're not given how fast HD tech moves, so the old disk wouldn't've been a contender anyways). A possibility is that your OS swaps parts of RAM to HD when playing EB, something which should've gained a massive boost simply from improved sequential read times, however... that begs the question why you'd get away with 1:15 previously... (swapping trashes performance, due to the fact that a HD is easily a factor of 1000 slower than any RAM).