• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Compression, rendering and other algorithms that use the processing power of the console rather than then entire ssd storage. This 161gb is so incredibly lazy

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        1 year ago

        It would mean slower loading perhaps but there’s a balance to be struck there. Besides, game being fun has nothing to do with game being high fidelity or huge hard disk space.

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          1 year ago

          Not just slower loading. Less available performance in game.

          Every time it needs to load a texture it’s uncompressing it on the fly…. That’s going to take away from CPU and RAM (both the compressed and uncompressed versions will be in RAM).

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            1 year ago

            It’s not going to be less performance in the game. Once uploaded to GPU texture is ready to be used. Just the loading part would be slower.