SSD as RAM: The New Way to Play AAA Games on Low-End Consoles?

Known and confirmed

• Gears of War: E-Day runs on Xbox Series S by offloading data from RAM to SSD, overcoming the 10GB limit.
• Developers prioritized non-frame-critical data for storage and disabled Lumen reflections to maintain performance.
• This approach has limits; frequent page file refreshes can still cause performance degradation.

Unknown or unverified

• 长期依赖SSD作为内存是否会对硬件寿命产生显著影响尚未有明确数据。
• 这种优化技术是否会成为行业标准，还是仅作为特定游戏的临时解决方案尚不确定。