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Indeed but it’s also a matter of how you design your game. If you’re assuming that a game is running off a hard drive, then you’ll likely design it so that it loads everything in at load time because the assumption is that storage will be too slow to provide assets on an “as-needed” basis.

On the other hand, if you can rely on there being an SSD you can just assume that you’ll be able to grab everything and as when needed.

This actually has an added benefit in that you can design more ‘ambitious’ games because you don’t have to worry about needing to fit all of your assets for a given ‘level’ into system memory. You can rely on the fact that you can just load and unload things as and when needed.

As I understand it, part of the issue on kbin is that the default federation threads value is too low for large sized instances.

I gather this will improve over time.

Indeed - what you describe is why I’m really not worried about fragmentation. Federation means you’ll be able to see all of the relevant communities, and you can decide to subscribe to any or all of them.

As the name suggests - patient gamers.

Mostly it’s for discussing games that came out a while ago that you’re just now getting around to. You get the benefit of the bugs largely having been fixed and being able to get the game for a much lower price than what it released at.

It’s also quite liberating getting to explore some real gems without having your perception distorted by the hype-train.

Welcome.

Based on the recommended specs, it likely won’t run, at least not without some serious compromises.

It does make me wonder what awful things they’re getting that poor creation engine to do.

To be fair I remember Fallout 3 being a bit of a nightmare to play at launch too.

A lot of this. But also things like developers doing things in an inefficient way, which the driver can then optimise for.

It’s not that game developers are intentionally not using GPUs properly, but the companies behind these GPUs are in a really good position to easily see if there’s something that they can do on their end to improve performance with specific games.

A lot of learning and reading. I spent most of my time on Reddit just lurking and reading things, but I can’t help but notice the overall higher quality of conversation here. I’m pretty happy.

Keep in mind that you don’t have to use Lemmy - kbin works as well with the same communities.

I’ve been using both, but my point is, it’s nice to have options.

Indeed - to be clear I don’t have a problem with swearing, but it definitely adds to the overall better vibe over here.

Regardless of what happens with Reddit I intend to stay.