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Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

If only I had access to a windows machine to patch my old ass motherboard 🥹🫡

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

I haven't completed read through the tutorial, but UEFITool does exist for Linux. (I had unsuccessfully added NVMe support to an old motherboard previously)

[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Managed to get MMtools working with wine. But now I am running up against issues with my motherboard and failing the security verification of the modified bios 😅

Stay tuned… 🤓

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Yep that was exactly the issue I faced before giving up with NVMe.

[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I tried it out with my Linux box. There’s a step that requires MMtools that I can’t run with out windows unfortunately 🥲

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

use a winPE boot image?

[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Whoa. I didn’t know this was a thing! Windows live CD! That’s awesome. Thank you for this! I managed to get MMtools working with wine. But definitely gonna try a few things with this since I’m getting some security verification failures with the modified bios 👀

[-] akrot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I don't understand why linux doesn't get all the love patches like Windows.

[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Honestly. I suspect in this scenario, the popular use case for enabling Resizable Bar is for gaming. I was hoping to improve my video transcoding experience. 🥸

[-] akrot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Linux, thanks to steam, is better at gaming than windows, esecially for older games. Proton ftw

[-] quaff@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Love Steam for that. That reminds me… gotta get me a Steam Deck!

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