Crysis running inside my GPU is the weirdest thing I've tried this year
It turns out the RTX Spark can run Crysis
It seems odd to try running Crysis on a GPU, but that's what one person wanted to do. They had a Lenovo Yoga 9n Gen 11 laptop with 64GB of memory and used most of it for local AI, leaving little VRAM for the graphics. Nvidia's RTX Spark graphics chip doesn't have separate VRAM; its CPU and GPU share a single pool of LPDDR5X memory.
The user set up a RAM disk to run the game, splitting the memory between 48GB for the game and 16GB for Windows. Despite this, Windows still used a significant amount of memory and had limited space available for the game. After installing Crysis, the user confirmed it ran normally, but noticed strange caching activity from the SSD.
In the end, while Crysis technically ran on the GPU, it was primarily using the Windows system memory.
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