Smart Access Memory / DirectStorage support

[Majin_Erick]

Will the Steam Deck (because of the NVMe requirements are met imo) support Smart Access Memory / Resizable BAR and or DirectStorage? :)

[Chryseus]

I'm pretty sure SAM / Resizable BAR requires a proper GPU so will have no effect here, DirectStorage is Windows only for now.

[WarnerCK]

Resizable BAR has been in Linux for a while already.

The mechanism that's the equivalent of DirectStorage is Peer-to-Peer Direct Memory Access.[www.kernel.org] Historically that's been used for network traffic; I don't know how much progress has been made on using it for GPUs.

[Majin_Erick]

For the most part on Linux it's in the API and the NVMe interface that would need the direct access. I can only imagine the speed at which the games can process due to switching the PCIe directly into the GPU.

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Messaggio originale di Chryseus:

I'm pretty sure SAM / Resizable BAR requires a proper GPU so will have no effect here, DirectStorage is Windows only for now.

SAM is there fore years with Linux and it should work with the apus too.