SMRTR TechApr 1, 2026TechEBlog

How a YouTuber Ran a Game on a PC With No RAM at All

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YouTuber PortalRunner experimented with running a computer without RAM by testing various alternatives including using an SSD as swap space and repurposing graphics card memory, but both approaches proved too slow for gaming. The breakthrough came from using CPU cache memory as a substitute, achieved by modifying CoreBoot firmware on an older motherboard to skip RAM initialization entirely and load directly into the processor's built-in cache, successfully running simple programs like Snake.

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