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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Small correction

Direct Storage was on PC (Linux)prior to XSX. 2005 for RAM and 2016 for VRAM. However Nvidia didn’t implement it until recently

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Isn’t DirectStorage a part of DirectX? That’s on Linux? I thought this was proprietary Microsoft stuff.

“DirectStorage Linux” search seems to support my assumption.

Are you thinking of resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The function of it is to bypass the cpu in resource calls

DirectStorage is just what Microsoft called it when they tried to brand it as a new feature

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That’s not what DirectStorage does though. It reduces CPU overhead but doesn’t eliminate it. It’s not DMA

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17613/microsoft-directstorage-11-with-gpu-decompression-finally-on-its-way

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

If you already knew then why did you need me explain in layman’s?

You might as well call it DirectStorage when people outside of Linux will know of that and as per above people will think it started on XSX