I avoid the nitty gritty because I’m a software guy but as far as I know nothing is inherently stopping the computer from using the hard drive as extremely slow RAM even for the GPU. I mean we already have page and swap files, might need to be implemented, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be technically done.
I think it’s more “technically nothing stopping you from making it happen”. I can’t find anywhere where it’s actually implemented because it really is a bad idea, molasses might flow up hill quicker in winter than a GPU would run using swap files
I avoid the nitty gritty because I’m a software guy but as far as I know nothing is inherently stopping the computer from using the hard drive as extremely slow RAM even for the GPU. I mean we already have page and swap files, might need to be implemented, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be technically done.
Is there swap for GPU memory? I didn’t know that
I think it’s more “technically nothing stopping you from making it happen”. I can’t find anywhere where it’s actually implemented because it really is a bad idea, molasses might flow up hill quicker in winter than a GPU would run using swap files
There’s anything for anything, provided you write the drivers/toolchain/kernel/firmware/ISA to make it happen. That’s the commenter’s point.
What if I use a netbook with barely enough storage to run Windows and download the game?
Swap over NFS.
Oh yes.
swap over carrier pigeon
Or don’t even have a mounted drive and use some sort of http service.
Swap over dropbox
plug in external storage, like a flash drive.