VRAM RamDisk

[Invasmani]

I know it was possible in Linux before to use video RAM as a ramdisk. It will however not be faster than system ram, because it has to transfer the PCI-E bus.

I think nonetheless that it is in principle possible to make a CUDA-ramdisk.

I was kind of thinking with a CUDA-ramdisk you could manually pre load a game or some game textures to avoid the bottle neck process of loading them on the fly off the hard drive during game play which can cause slow downs and/or stuttering in games. I’m not sure if it would even work the way I’m thinking, but would be great if it did especially as vram sizes continue to increase. There’s all ready are 2GB 9600GT’s available which sounds extremely overkill, but I bet the extra vram could be put to use some how like running multiple mmo accounts at the same time.