The NVIDIA GForce RTX 3090 comes with 24 GB VRAM. That’s a lot of video memory, right? In fact, PC gamers can install and run full games on it. Yes, you read that right. Software software engineer “Strife, La Flat Revolutioner” has installed and played Crisis 3 on the VRAM of NVIDIA GFRS RTX 3090.
Strife212 uses a GPU RAM drive, a VRAMdrive software, and a 15GB NTFS partition on the GPU. After that, she installed Crisis 3 which apparently worked well.
I have Crisis 3 installed on my graphics card!
I have used some VRAMdrive software software called GPU Ram Drive, created a 15GB NTFS partition on the GPU, then installed Crisis 3 on it.
Very high settings on 4K get good FPS and game loads very fast – GPU-Z reports that total VRAM uses 20434MB pic.twitter.com/lLcQsD5JYM
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At 4K / very high settings, the Crisis 3 NVIDIA GForce RTX 3090 ran with 75fps. Plus, and with the game installed on it, the total VRAM usage was 20GB.
Now if you’re wondering, the loading speed hasn’t improved. As Strife212 said, loading time is similar to fast NVMe drives.
My guess is that the game needs to transfer data from VRAM to RAM, and then feed them to the CPU. Since Crisis 3 is not developed to take full advantage of high-speed transfers, there is no big advantage here. This may change once directstorage is available. However, and by the time games start using DirectSterage, it will be too big to fit on the VRAM of the RTX 3090.
Still, it was a really nice experiment so do the quarrel 212!
John Papadopoulos
John is the founder and editor-in-chief of DSO Gaming. He is a fan of PC gaming and is very supportive of the modding and indie communities. While it is a die-hard PC gamer, its gaming can be found on the original console. John loves – and still does – 16-bit consoles, and SNES. Is considered the best console. Still, the PC platform won them over to the console. This was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a high degree thesis on “The Evolution of PC Graphics Cards”. Contact: Email
