Rather an question than an issue, anyway....

Is it possible, with Steam, to transfer the Skyrim files into an Ram Drive, and run Skyrim from there?
Why? Even an SSD is slow compared to an Ram Drive.

Yup, done it, its not really that incredible of a gain but its fun to do

Thanks for the reply.
I think an upgrade to 8GB Ram is enough than, for my current setup at least.

If you were on a DDR3 based board I might agree but at this point I think your money would be better spent on acquiring a genuine SSD drive or just shifting to a board with the far larger capacity for the stuff and DDR3's speeds. Keep in mind the sheer size of Skyrim's content + 3rd party addins, my skyrim folder is about 12GB total at this point Thas-sa-lota-ram-drive. DDR2 is pricier and the sizes available on boards based on it are likely as you say about 8GB max, nice for perhaps stuffing the 3rd party loose textures folder in maybe as a ramdrive but again it really didn't offer *that* much of a benefit and only really when you're doing other crazy things like playing with ugrid north of 9 (since each time you cross a cell at ugrid 11+ the engine is now loading 13+ cells of content vs the default's 6)

Not really worth the minimal speed gain. I have Skyrim running of an SSD and i can hardly tell a difference in anything but marginally better load times.

As Skyrim runs fine with max settings in 1920x1080 om my rig, the Ram Drive setup would only be a test of how far it could improve load times.
An big upgrade is not nessesary, as my rig works mighty fine with any Game i play on it. Believe it or not.

vs' an HDD it would reduce the wee stutter you get when loading 3rd party add-on in game. Other wise ..not so much. The main loading has alot of unpacking and decompresion time.