Crysis 3 Installed on RTX 3090 directly

[JohnG7]

Not sure if GPU or games topic or both.

Twitter link is messy sorry.


This mad lad installed Crysis 3 on RTX 3090 directly : nvidia (reddit.com)

Strife, la fillette révolutionnaire on Twitter: "I installed Crysis 3 on my graphics card! I used some VRAMdrive software called GPU Ram Drive, made a 15GB NTFS partition on the GPU, then installed Crysis 3 on it At 4K very high settings get good fps and the game loads very fast - GPU-Z reports total VRAM use 20434MB https://t.co/lLcQsD5JYM" / Twitter

 

[Iron Man]

I saw this earlier on reddit. I don’t think he got any increase to his frame rates either lol

 

[JohnG7]

Well he took 15GB VRam as a Ramdrive basically so he is left with 9GB to run the game (so not sure how he saw 20GB usage).

 

[Rroff]

Interesting but probably little advantage over using a RAM drive of physical RAM unless you can find a way to bypass the normal loading mechanisms which still mean a lot of data being shuttled around by the CPU during the loading process rather than either mapped from the installation footprint and/or directly copied on the GPU to the right location.

 

[snips86x]

Just read this as well, nuts that they could install it and still not hit the limit.

 

[Strife212]

This was me by the way

(It's mostly pointless, for gaming purposes at least, I just thought it was funny)

 

[Grim5]

Boss move, great idea

 

[Rroff]

Wonder if you can still get the add-in boards that let you populate them with dimms and had a battery backup to preserve contents - probably these days don't offer much over an nvme drive anyhow.

 

[Sibbers]

This was me by the way

(It's mostly pointless, for gaming purposes at least, I just thought it was funny)

Nice work - did you see this yet? https://youtu.be/H9p4-pzoz-Y?t=356

It popped up as a suggested video, but been up for a few days so probs well late to the party.

 

[Justintime]

Wonder if you can still get the add-in boards that let you populate them with dimms and had a battery backup to preserve contents - probably these days don't offer much over an nvme drive anyhow.

Had a gigabyte iram. More annoying than useful. Swollen batteries and limited capacity. Ssd or nvme is much better.

 

[Nooblet]

This isn't that much different from RAMDisk, it's basically just using part of the VRAM as storage and nothing more to it. The game is still bound by coding and ofcourse it's still using the CPU and system RAM.

 

[Rroff]

Had a gigabyte iram. More annoying than useful. Swollen batteries and limited capacity. Ssd or nvme is much better.

Didn't realise they only had 16 hours battery life as well on the iram - makes it rather less than useful outside of very niche applications. I assumed they'd last weeks or months with just refreshes.

 

[Justintime]

Yea 4gb ddr1 and limited pci bus bandwidth coupled with short battery life and a rather short (1yr) time before the battery swole.. useless