Gears of War: E-Day Runs Smoothly on Xbox Series S By Using SSD as RAM

While Gears of War: E-Day is a beautiful game, it's incredibly demanding, whether you're playing it on the Xbox Series X or on PC. But, The Coalition was able to work some magic on the Xbox Series S by tapping into the SSD to increase performance.

The Coalition's studio technical director Kate Raynor talked to Digital Foundry and described tapping into the SSD while the Series S was out of memory. That's important for a game as demanding as Gears of War: E-Day, as the Xbox Series S only has 10GB of RAM, rather than the 16GB on the Series X.

Offloading data from the RAM to an SSD is nothing new. Your computer does it all the time when you run out of memory. What happens then is that the computer relies on the Page File, a dedicated block of storage on your SSD or hard drive that's used to hold overflow data. …