Intel Optane Acceleration

[Jadus]

I have the MSI Tomahawk AC X299 motherboard with a Skylake X Intel Core i7 processor. It supports 2 Intel Optane cards so I can have up to 64GB of optane memory.

Here are the specs of the M.2 for my board

2 x M.2 slots (Key M)1
Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s
M2_1 slot supports 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
M2_2 slot supports 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices
Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready2

I'm not sure how Optane works exactly can you put them into a raid 0 so both cards work together? Do you have to assign them to a specific drive to work or does it affect all hard drives? How I want them to work is I already have an SSHD for Windows I wanted to get a high capacity hard drive for XBox One OS. Then assign the Optane memory just to that drive. I don't need it for the Windows drive it has an acceleration in it already and I don't really need more.

And if anyone was wondering yes I found out how to install it and if you need it go to this site to get the OS.
XBox at Mega [mega.nz]

[tacoshy]

there is an 8th Generation CPu for X299? Did I miss something? X299 only uses Skylake X and Kaby Lake X. Tehre hasnt been released any Coffee Lake X processors yet. Proberbly never will.

For anythign faster then a HDD Intel Optane is msotly uselessunelss you talk about Intel Optane 900p which is a normal M.2 NVMe SSD.


PS. Not sure if you know even clsoely what you talk about. Optane doesnt really randomly boost. it is just a huge volatile flash to boost which means you need to have it in the memory first to faster acess most sued data. Far faster then Windows boost through RAM and dedciated only for the OS drive. There ialso isnt an XBox One OS that youc an simply install otuside of an XBOX and inside of an xbox you cant use optane....


PS #2: Since Intel optane only boost the OS harddrive you can only boost one drive and only use oen Optane...

PS #3: Your story still doesnt make even closely sense after all. Since I dont want to accuse you of trolling I assume you emss many details up and highly suggest you to make sure what you got as hardware and what you actually want to achieve.

[tacoshy]

you cant install Xbox OS outside of an XBox because there are no drivers for other hardware or support for other hardware then the XBox hardware itself... and the xbox doesnt has a M.2 slot so no what ever yout ry to do not going to work.

[Monk]

ill be honest if you have an x299 platform, you can afford to do it properly and just get an ssd or nvme drive (though depending on what gpu set up you have and which cpu you have, that might not be the best approach), probably best to just list out your full system specs.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Someperson22:

But the XBox has Windows 10 on it. So it should be able to grab the drivers like normal. When I plugged in a keyboard with my friend's XBox it just worked (You need drivers for any hardware) so it's getting it's drivers somehow.

The Xbox OS is never going to run on your hardware.. It doesn't have the drivers for the hardware and its likely dependant in the machine's firmware as well.

I am now downloading that Xbox OS of yours, if I can run it in a VM it will work on your PC. But I think it's nothing more then a zip filled with malware.


And also, where would anyone even acquire the Xbox OS installation files? If this .zip isn't filled with malware it will likely just have the Xbox OS files on it ripped straight from the Xbox's HDD.


If you want a console-like OS look at SteamOS or Lakka. Both a Linux based.



Ok,
I checked it out and looks like some sort of Windows re-skin. Going to try and install it.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Someperson22:

Originally posted by Omega:

The Xbox OS is never going to run on your hardware.. It doesn't have the drivers for the hardware and its likely dependant in the machine's firmware as well.

I am now downloading that Xbox OS of yours, if I can run it in a VM it will work on your PC. But I think it's nothing more then a zip filled with malware.


And also, where would anyone even acquire the Xbox OS installation files? If this .zip isn't filled with malware it will likely just have the Xbox OS files on it ripped straight from the Xbox's HDD.


If you want a console-like OS look at SteamOS or Lakka. Both a Linux based.



Ok,
I checked it out and looks like some sort of Windows re-skin. Going to try and install it.

Well, the file did pass my antivirus (ESET and Spybot search and destroy) on installation but I didn't get around to doing a full scan yet.

I will run a full system scan once I have installed this skin. These .ZIP files extract very slow.

[Omega]

This stuff gave me a flashback to my piracy days.. The amount of shady crap you need to do. "Extract this folder, now extract a folder with the same name and mostly duplicate files and overwrite it's contents"

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377222497
I should have installed DirectX, can't logout in to the (presumably) unaltered main admin account to fix this. This OS is bricked.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377224802
When clicking away the errors it shows this for a sec before the errors popup again. So it deffinitly did something.

I really wouldn't do this to your main OS. lol

[Omega]

Originally posted by Someperson22:

Yeah, I was going to just buy a new hard drive and install it there. Do you need Windows in order to do it? Or can you just place the files you need on the drive and just boot from it and it will grab updates itself?

You need Windows, yes.

Just get SteamOS or Lakka instead. They can be installed in dual boot.


And I am unsure about the legality of this. This may very well be considered software piracy.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Officially you can only use Optane with your (sata?) boot drive. I don't know if it worked with sshd.
Intel rep have claimed to me the smaller only do one of the caChe functions whereas the later do both file and block cache.

But yeah. Optane officially is pretty limited. With an ssd i think you officially can cache your second hdd.

[Omega]

So I got it running.

I started going through the setup process.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377262569

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377262728

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377262910

It clearly has some driver issues, even with VMware tools installed. Screen image quality is that of the PS One, some buttons on the keyboard don't work, not even when the keyboard is passed through to the VM to make it run "native".

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377263113

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377263432

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377263739

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377264056

I am running in to a lot of script errors.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377264264

I logged in with my Microsoft account and started setting up a Xbox account. I didn't get any further then this, either I am stupid or the errors are preventing me from creating an Xbox account.

So if you already have an Xbox account you may be able to progress further through the setup then I was able to.


it was a fun little project. Don't bother doing this, the OS is a buggy mess.

Edit:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377280215
With some tinkering I managed to get to the main menu. Haven't been able to launch any apps yet though.

[Monk]

well while it turned out to be fruitless, it seems a cool lil project for your evening heh, i mean if you could get it to launch a game, im pretty sure you would have microsoft writing to you, but that would be pretty cool to pull off, i wonder what fps they would get lol

[Omega]

It's detecting the Windows 10 installation "disk" which is still "inserted" so I guess I could run any Xbox One game .ISO or a real disk through VMware. Dunno how the anti piracy protection will deal with it tough.

And also dunno if most games will actually run. This a right after release version of the Xbox OS and I haven't figured out how to update it yet.

[Omega]

I am also unable to connect to Xbox Live. Microsoft is probably blocking it or the system needs to be up-to-date to do so.

So you wouldn't have been able to play online anyway.

[Omega]

Ok, I just got around to scanning the VM and it has trojans in it. So yeah, don't trust this software.

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