this fixes a real annoyance on older workstation boards where above 4g decoding is a requirement but the option isn't even in the bios menu. saw a build recently on an x79 board where it had to be exposed with a hand patched bios before anything like this or a modern gpu would work at all.

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Melatonic 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does this help for more than just gaming ?

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jedbrooke 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

thanks for the throwback, I remember having to hand patch the bios on my x79 system to use a gpu with 12GB vram. Fun times. My motherboard also mysteriously stopped working shortly after…

	▲	bpye 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I patched my old Haswell system to add an NVMe DXE so I could boot from a modern SSD. I currently have a Lets Note laptop that definitely has UEFI, but pretty much pretends to be BIOS - apparently it's possible to modify to expose UEFI features but I have yet to try...