How to use Pendrive as A Ram? (Like ReadyBoost in Windows)

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Is it possible to use Pendrive as VRam in Manjaro xfce.
if yes then how?

I play Call Of Duty 4 MW in my laptop using WINE. When i used windows with same hardware the game used to work without any lag but know even at the lowest setting its lagging a lot.

I did some research in game, trying different settings, i found out that My CPU is enough to manage effects like (shadows, blur, etc…) but it isnt able to render those.
I mean after i set settings from low to normal, fps remains the same with those new effects that i applied, what can i do.
My cpu handels game but cannot give the fps.
Maybe its not rendering at time

MY SPECS :

Intel Dual core processor
2gb ram

for more: my laptop is dell vostro 1015 (2gb ram Variant)

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Hi @Vinayak_420,

  1. a Lot more information is necessary to see if it is possible to help you. Please read this: How to provide good information
  2. From what you’re describing, it sound like a driver issue, but there’s no way to be sure until you’ve provided the information.
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You cannot extend RAM with a pendrive.
Even if it would work: Pendrives are several orders of magnitude slower than RAM and thus won’t help the mentioned use case (playing games via wine).
Even the mentioned ReadyBoost does not do that: it is a caching technology (for slower disk drives).

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As a first answer - and as already mentioned - probably not possible.

Second considerations

As @freggel.doe correctly points to - the USB device is by magnitudes slower than computer memory.

From what I remember from my Windows usage - the usage is not for todays systems where tha lack of RAM is more an exception than a default.

The only real measure of increasing responsiveness on a system level is to apply certain kernel specific measures but judgning from your breif system mention you are in no position to benefit.

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No, but it is possible to use your VRAM as Swap for your RAM. :smiley:

Intel GPUs have most not full support for vulkan (if you use dxvk), and therefore not everything works. Use instead OpenGL (normally d3dx9/10/11).

LANG=C winetricks dlls list | grep d3d                                                                                                                                     
d3dcompiler_42           MS d3dcompiler_42.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dcompiler_43           MS d3dcompiler_43.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dcompiler_46           MS d3dcompiler_46.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dcompiler_47           MS d3dcompiler_47.dll (Microsoft, FIXME) [downloadable]
d3drm                    MS d3drm.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx10                   MS d3dx10_??.dll from DirectX user redistributable (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx10_43                MS d3dx10_43.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx11_42                MS d3dx11_42.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx11_43                MS d3dx11_43.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9                    MS d3dx9_??.dll from DirectX 9 redistributable (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_24                 MS d3dx9_24.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_25                 MS d3dx9_25.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_26                 MS d3dx9_26.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_27                 MS d3dx9_27.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_28                 MS d3dx9_28.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_29                 MS d3dx9_29.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_30                 MS d3dx9_30.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_31                 MS d3dx9_31.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_32                 MS d3dx9_32.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_33                 MS d3dx9_33.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_34                 MS d3dx9_34.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_35                 MS d3dx9_35.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_36                 MS d3dx9_36.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_37                 MS d3dx9_37.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_38                 MS d3dx9_38.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_39                 MS d3dx9_39.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_40                 MS d3dx9_40.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_41                 MS d3dx9_41.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_42                 MS d3dx9_42.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dx9_43                 MS d3dx9_43.dll (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
d3dxof                   MS d3dxof.dll from DirectX user redistributable (Microsoft, 2010) [downloadable,cached]
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What this is supposed to do?
I Just Want To Optimize my game pr Wine for better fps

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Ok, there are 2 translation layers for directx. OpenGL and Vulkan. Both methods must be fully supported by your GPU since Directx is Windows only. Expect there will be always a more less delay on the translation layer. On Vulkan is the delay smaller than on OpenGL.

However… this will display which version is supported by your GPU:

vulkaninfo | grep "Vulkan version"

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

If Vulkan is not fully supported, then it will also result in bad behaviors. Lags etc… Therefore i suggest to try installing only d3dx9 with winetricks which will use OpenGL as translation layer.

If that does not help, then I would say, there not much you can do, since the problem is directx.

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i run both the Commands

  1. vulkaninfo : command not found
  2. OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 21.1.2

do i have to install vulkan?

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Install it:

pamac install vulkan-tools

I see Version 2.1 is supported by the GPU. That is not really much. Even Minecraft needs Version 4.4 :smiley: Don’t expect much there.

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I have Played Same Games on same hardware on windows without lag.

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Yes, because of the GPU supports Directx9 fully, but to have the same features like there on OpenGL or Vulkan, there is a higher Version needed. The Support for OpenGL is lower than Directx.

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Maybe i need to dual boot windows7 for playing and linux for programming :slight_smile:

Hey! What if i Dual boot and play the same on Windows, will the lag fix…

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Upgrade your hardware. You won’t be able to play many games with that.

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