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docs: VRAM booster works with NVIDIA's open kernel modules (driver 615+); only the closed driver is greyed out
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@@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ SteamOS 3.9 manages the dGPU's VRAM per cgroup: the game in front is
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protected, background apps are evicted first. Without it a game that needs
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most of the VRAM (8 GB on the Steam Machine) can be pushed into system RAM
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by the desktop and other apps, and stutter. The kernel side is the `dmem`
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cgroup controller (7.2); amdgpu and Intel's xe register their VRAM with it,
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NVIDIA's driver doesn't: with an NVIDIA card the option is shown greyed
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cgroup controller (7.2); amdgpu and Intel's xe register their VRAM with it
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(`drm/<pci>/vram`), NVIDIA's open kernel modules from driver 615 too
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(`nvidia/<pci>/vidmem`); `dmemcg-booster` protects every region it lists,
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whatever its name. NVIDIA's closed modules don't: with such a card the option is shown greyed
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out, with why, until its driver lists a region: then it's offered like any
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other (`WIZARD_VRAM_FAKE_NVIDIA=1` fakes the grey-out, `WIZARD_VRAM_CAPACITY=<file>`
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reads the regions from a copy, for tests). Otherwise
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