- Gears of War: E-Day developers used the SSD memory as Makeshift RAM to achieve better results.
- The team achieved 60 FPS without lowering the quality of the title.
- Other studios have already asked The Coalition for details about this technique.
Gears of War: E-Day has had a fantastic start to life on the critical front, getting praised worldwide by critics and fans alike for being a fantastic return to form for the IP. In early access alone, the game doubled the all-time player peak of the franchise on Steam, debuting with over 20k players.
The visuals of Gears of War: E-Day have also received acclaim from the gaming world, with the title’s performance on Xbox Series S getting singled out by analysts. Now, the development team has revealed why the game runs so well on the console.
Why it matters: Issues with the Xbox Series S have plagued the console throughout its entire life cycle. Therefore, this could be a turning point for the hardware’s potential.
In an interview with Digital Foundry, The Coalition’s technical director, Kate Rayner, revealed that the studio used the Xbox Series S SSD as temporary RAM to improve Gears of War: E-Day’s performance. The developer explained how data is stored in three places: the CPU cache, the RAM, and the SSD, which is much slower than the other two.
The team behind Gears of War: E-Day used the internal SSD as makeshift RAM in order to store the city seen in the game. With the SSD being much slower than RAM, developers stored only those sections of memory that wouldn’t slow down the title when loaded in.
According to Rayner, around one more GB of system memory can be attained by utilising several GBs on the SSD. The Coalition did this to run Gears of War: E-Day at 60 FPS without lowering the quality of the overall product.
Kate Rayner also stated that other studios are already inquiring about the technique behind this loophole. Hence, the inconsistent performance of Xbox Series S ports might be improved thanks to the work done on Gears of War: E-Day.
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Shameer Sarfaraz has previously worked for eXputer as a Senior News Writer for several years. Now with Tech4Gamers, he loves to devoutly keep up with the latest gaming and entertainment industries. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and years of experience reporting on games. Besides his passion for breaking news stories, Shahmeer loves spending his leisure time farming away in Stardew Valley. VGC, IGN, GameSpot, Game Rant, TheGamer, GamingBolt, The Verge, NME, Metro, Dot Esports, GameByte, Kotaku Australia, PC Gamer, and more have cited his articles.
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