What's new in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.4.1
Apr 19, 2023
- Improved: disabled contents indexing for NTFS volumes.
- Removed: Windows 7 support and all 32-bit builds.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.4 (Mar 6, 2023)
- Added: macOS platform support.
- Added: dark mode support for Windows.
- Removed: obsolete interface translations.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.3.3 (Jul 10, 2022)
- Added: ARM64 platform support on Windows 11.
- Improved: read/write performance for small files.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.3.2 (Mar 22, 2022)
- Fixed: image-based RAM disks could have inconsistent image data written on shutdown.
- Fixed: a disk refused to mount if its image file was replaced by a larger image.
- Improved: optimisations in GUI and reduced installation package size.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.3.1 (Nov 25, 2021)
- Fixed: read-only volume issue when saving to image.
- Fixed: occasional incorrect parameter error pop-up.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.3 (Nov 2, 2021)
- Added: Windows 11 support.
- Added: Saving volatile RAM disks to an image file.
- Fixed: Boot-time disks did full image update instead of differential.
- Fixed: Occasional failure to mount boot-time disks with Hard Disk Emulation.
- Fixed: Saving to image for disks that were changed from being persistent to non-persistent.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.2 (Jan 4, 2021)
- Added: disk space gauge in the main view.
- Added: custom cluster size support in command line parameters.
- Improved: more reliable handling of system shutdown for writing image data.
- Improved: more compact exFAT file allocation table for increasing available disk space.
- Fixed: exFAT formatting for large disks with small clusters where FAT bitmap exceeded 64 bits.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.1.1 (Jul 20, 2020)
- Improved: checking location permissions when creating images.
- Improved: new user interface languages and minor enhancements.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.1.0 (Apr 27, 2020)
- Fixed: a rare crash when multiple disks were defined and first one had linked image file.
- Changed: Windows 7 is now the minimum required OS version.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.9 (May 14, 2019)
- AddedNUMA-node parameter in the console version.
- AddedWindows Hybrid Boot detection and advice to turn it off.
- ImprovedUp to 2 x performance increase in multithreaded I/O.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.8 (Oct 4, 2018)
- Fixed creating disks over 4GB on Windows 10 RS5 (v1809) that was broken with Microsoft update.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.7 (May 25, 2018)
- All graphics and icons are now vector images and scale to any DPI on high-resolution displays.
- Added information when image file was last updated to the main view.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.6 (Apr 16, 2018)
- Added custom cluster size setting for file systems.
- Fixed an error when deleting a RAM disk.
- Fixed an issue with creating long nested folders.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.5 (Mar 23, 2018)
- Optimised memory allocation to reduce creation time for large disks.
- Optimised memory zero filling to improve disk initialisation time.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.4 (Oct 12, 2017)
- Added exFAT support offering reduced overhead and better performance over NTFS.
- Added nested folders support for boot-time RAM disks similar to logon-time ones.
- Boot-time disks retain their mount state between reboots like logon-time disks.
- Simplified update procedure: just install a newer version over and reboot.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.3 (Aug 24, 2017)
- Fixed a few issues when running under Driver Verifier.
- Where possible use NX memory allocations for added security.
- Added new EV digital signature and Microsoft driver certification.
- Added compatibility with Device Guard on Windows 10 and Server 2016.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.2 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Added /rem and /hdd command line switches in the console version.
- Fixed a stability issue when one or more system disks were dynamic.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.1 (Feb 6, 2017)
- Added console version to create on-demand RAM disks from a service or script.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 4.0.0 (Nov 6, 2016)
- Product is no longer free for home users: licence fee applies.
- Fixed memory allocation in a specific NUMA node when requested.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.8 (Oct 6, 2016)
- Windows 2016 Server and Windows 10 Anniversary support.
- Fixed a BSOD when a boot-time volume couldn't be mounted.
- Fixed creating VHDX and similar files on HDD-emulated disks.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.7 (Oct 29, 2015)
- Added Windows 10 compatibility and fixed issues with the product
- Added executing *.bat and *.cmd files in automatically started apps
- Allowed to manually save data to image even when data persistence is off
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.6 (Sep 6, 2014)
- Fixed a compatibility issue with Virtual CloneDrive.
- Fixed freezing on shutdown when using HDD emulation with an image.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.5 (Feb 4, 2014)
- Fixed an issue with NTFS formatting with a volume label
- Fixed an issue with NTFS formatting with the HDD emulation
- Added an option to select a NUMA node on Windows 8 and higher
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.4 (Jan 15, 2014)
- Fixed /force command that did not work if the RAM disk GUI was running.
- Fixed maxing out CPU on image-based RAM disks with periodic data saving.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.3 (Nov 15, 2013)
- Fixed Task Manager crashes on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
- Fixed an obscure startup crash in Samsung Magician.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.2 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Fixed an issue when creating more than one disk on Windows 7 and above.
- Improved Windows 8.1 compatibility and better dynamic disks support.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4.1 (Oct 2, 2013)
- Fixed not mounting a boot-time volume with an image file attached
- Fixed a few stability issues and slightly improved the I/O performance
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.4 (Sep 2, 2013)
- Added complete hard-disk emulation (for volume snapshots, shadow copy, etc).
- Improved support for large in-memory volumes on 32-bit systems.
- Added on-demand saving to image files and the /save command line switch.
- Numerous improvements and bug fixes, including Windows 8.1 support.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.3.3 (Nov 21, 2012)
- Fixed periodic saving to newly created boot-time image based disks.
- Added flushing disk cache after writing to disk images for more reliability.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.3.2 (Oct 12, 2012)
- Fixed creating and mounting large image files.
- Fixed corruption of large files on NTFS based RAM disks.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.3.1 (Oct 6, 2012)
- Major optimisation with performance gains 20% to 900% in various tests.
- Added Greek language and others updated.
- EULA changed for commercial organisations.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.3.0 (Oct 4, 2012)
- This software is FREEWARE as of this release.
- Added multilingual support and several built-in languages.
- Added differential writing of disk images (only changed blocks are saved).
- Added Windows 8 support.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.2.2 (Jan 10, 2012)
- Application has been made fully 64-bit when installed on 64-bit systems.
- Fixed occasional GUI startup crash when boot-time volumes were in use.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.2.1 (Jul 25, 2011)
- Mounted image files can now also be ejected from Windows Explorer.
- Fixed a bug that could randomly cause the system to freeze.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.2 (May 31, 2011)
- Added automatically created folders on a boot-time RAM disk.
- Added periodic saving RAM disk contents to an image file for a logon-time RAM disk.
- Fixed editing RAM disks with an associated image file (resulted in a file locked message).
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.1 (May 16, 2011)
- Fixed incompatibility with Rollback RX and a few other issues.
- Added command line options support and environment variables support for automatically launched applications.
- Added waiting until a launched application fully starts before launching another to prevent system slowdown.
- Added showing the actual file system instead of RAW and real disk size for image-based disks.
- Added command line switches support to create and manipulate RAM disks via a command line interface.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.0.2 (May 16, 2011)
- Added compressed NTFS volumes support to save RAM disk space.
- Added creation of preformatted image files.
- Fixed formatting newly created image files that could cause Windows Vista / Seven to hang during formatting.
- Various minor improvements and tweaks.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.0.1 (May 16, 2011)
- Improved multiuser environment support (correct handling of multiple logons where disk with the same name is already mounted).
- Added configurable volume label accessible via advanced disk properties.
- Newly created disks now have indexing attribute turned off by default.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 3.0 (May 16, 2011)
- Added mount/unmount all disks command and an expanded popup menu in the system tray providing quick access to major features.
- Added boot-time disk support (RAM disks mounted before user logon) making the software usable for servers and server applications. It is also now possible to place the pagefile on such a disk.
- Numerous optimisations throughout the product. Subject to the host OS, projected performance gains compared to the previous version are about 10% for sequential I/O, 30-50% for large block I/O and 400-600% for small block I/O.
- Fixed inability to change disk properties if its new size added with the current size exceeded available RAM.
- Fixed editing TMP/TEMP variables as they became non-expandable after editing, which caused issues with values like %USERPROFILE%.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 2.0.1 (Jan 19, 2010)
- Allows to create disks of up 95% of the available RAM.
- Added editing RAM disks (changing properties).
- Added on-demand on-line checking for updates.
- Made other minor tweaks.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 2.0.0 (Jan 15, 2010)
- Fixed inability to create volumes over 2 GB.
- Added 64-bit systems support.
- Added Mount/Unmount commands.
- Added several new global options.
- Added user manual.
- Several tweaks and fixes throughout the product.
- Distribution terms changed to 30-day trial.
New in SoftPerfect RAM Disk 1.0.1 Beta (Nov 20, 2009)
- Added ram-disk import/export feature.
- Added Windows TEMP/TMP environment variable editor.