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posted by Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 09:36

> AFAIK, enabling the write-combining cache needs to be done with PAT now.
> This could probably work if managed by an appropriately modified VM86
> monitor, but only for real-mode games. Most DOS-extended games run without
> paging, which would also prevent PAT from being used. At least that’s how
> I imagine it would work; I’ve never looked at PAE in more detail.

Thank you for this information. I had never imagined that PAT was necessary for write-cache combining on the most modern systems. This is a better answer than I've found elsewhere or in trying to explain the freeze of all > 5th Gen Intel core systems, when using RayeR's utility, or another MTRR-enabler. This appears to be a yet anoth castration / "walled garden" limitation of modern systems. The most modern 12th Gen doesn't even have VESA modes, int13, or DOS text-mode 9x16 fonts, so DOS can't even be booted from USB -- also from lack of CSM legacy BIOS code. Even if non-UEFI code existed in BIOS, DOS games and applications wouldn't be usable due to lack of these fundamental low-resolution VGA modes complete deletion of a legacy 16-bit video BIOS firmware.

 

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