Hardware Did anyone ever tried a RAM upgrade on the switch?

[Macac]

Pre-Alpha Atmosphere for makiro came out today. In a month it should be stable. Once I get news of stability I will try to order a v2 (I already have a v1) and attempt this mod. From what Ive gathered it should work better because v2 tegra supports 8gb? Please correct me if im wrong or turn me around if this mod is pointless.

 

[pontostroy]

Please correct me if im wrong or turn me around if this mod is pointless.

This mod is totally useless, many games just don't use 3+gb and in other games I don't see the difference.
If I understand correctly with 8 GB mod you will get the same 4260MB in the application pool as with 6GM mod.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

This mod is totally useless, many games just don't use 3+gb and in other games I don't see the difference.
If I understand correctly with 8 GB mod you will get the same 4260MB in the application pool as with 6GM mod.

It's not totally useless, I've tinkered with the ram months ago; in cases such as GC Emulation in L4T and etc after changing some fuse related things you can have some fun; reducing the amount of swap is good for emulation due to the way the MicroSD/eMMC(If you know how to do eMMC setup with L4T) is routed and connected to the SoC; so you can have fun just not as much in HOS & etc.

 

[Kirby567fan]

This mod is totally useless, many games just don't use 3+gb and in other games I don't see the difference.
If I understand correctly with 8 GB mod you will get the same 4260MB in the application pool as with 6GM mod.

Did you try changing the game's executable to allocate 6GB of RAM?

 

[Andy2001]

A ram upgrade will be only if at all useful with homebrew stuff, right? Or am i missing something here?

 

[Kirby567fan]

A ram upgrade will be only if at all useful with homebrew stuff, right? Or am i missing something here?

Nope, L4T would also take advantage of it and maybe games too with some executable editing.
Usually games take 2.5GB for CPU RAM and then allocate the rest to GPU.
So the best case scenario is games taking advantage of the extra RAM with some executable editing, and hopefully it could allow higher resolution textures in some games.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

I've actually been working on a socketed ram mod but as you can imagine routing a FBGA200 pin footprint is rather hard, specially socketing it while considering characteristics such as EMI, trace length, frequency matching and etc, not an easy task and I've been at it months; if I do then it'll be fun to be able to change it on the go due to how you can modify the rear shell to have a laptop style rear door, but I'm yet to buy a proper 3D Laser scanner for this type of replication(I cba to measure and do CAD screw that.), L4T Emulation and etc will most definitely benefit, remember any modification that increases resources will always help, it's just about the hands it is in.

 

[Andy2001]

Nope, L4T would also take advantage of it and maybe games too with some executable editing.
Usually games take 2.5GB for CPU RAM and then allocate the rest to GPU.
So the best case scenario is games taking advantage of the extra RAM with some executable editing, and hopefully it could allow higher resolution textures in some games.

I would count l4t as homebrew

 

[pontostroy]

Now I can't get 0.16 version to work. The old patches don't work anymore,
In version 0.15 I had to boot from the stock atmosphere with fusee-primary and then my fusee-secondary2(this is only one file that I copy from my build) with fss0 loaded without any problems.
I am also rebuild hekate.

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

on a different note, what if someone baked a gpu or a ram extension to the dock. I mean yeah there are usb c gpus but it would probably just not work and a ram upgrade might be doable but then there is the problem of bus speeds

Those usb c gpus are thunderbolt 3, which is like usb c but with some pcie lanes tacked on.

 

[Dagas]

as i install 6gb or 8gb on nintendo switch please i am newbie i have atmosphere.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

as i install 6gb or 8gb on nintendo switch please i am newbie i have atmosphere.

what.
this requires hard modding

 

[Deleted User]

Time for Nintendo to come forth with the Switch Pro!
People are already building their own upgrade for the Switch.

 

[Dagas]

@pontostroy Can you tell me how to install those 6gb in games, thanks

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

@pontostroy Can you tell me how to install those 6gb in games, thanks

my guy, this is a hard mod
if you dont have the skills dont do it

 

[Dagas]

with a tutorial more people could do it, for more performance, more fps, etc etc. that's why I ask proton to tell me how to do it, following steps I could do it. thanks.

 

[evil_santa]

with a tutorial more people could do it, for more performance, more fps, etc etc. that's why I ask proton to tell me how to do it, following steps I could do it. thanks.

Here is your tutorial decide for yourself if you can.



It's from this thread.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-games-error-faulty-memory-ram.572815/

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

you would still need to spoof fuses and games wont use the extra space

 

[ZachyCatGames]

you would still need to spoof fuses and games wont use the extra space

(former is already done with my modded hekate and Atmosphere, latter depends on the game)

 

[pontostroy]

(former is already done with my modded hekate and Atmosphere, latter depends on the game)

Do you know why I can boot only after fusse-primary? Then I can reboot to payload (hekate) and fss0 boot passes without any problems.