For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

  • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Even on systems with significant memory, a slow drive will create lag in RC. Moreover, RC is doing this while also having very high graphical fidelity overall, including ray tracing, which is quite memory intensive. It’s not possible without Direct storage and reasonably fast SSDs.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      Yeah…

      Keep in mind that the PS4 pro and the Xbox One X both had spinning disc hard drives. Going from an HDD to an SSD, let alone a pretty good NVME, is already an insane speed-up. There is a reason most PC outlets have said over the years that getting an NVME was a more noticeable improvement than a new GPU.

      Similarly, most games and visuals that people were used to fit in 8 GB. This is twice as much RAM at a higher speed.

      The “direct storage” argument is almost entirely marketing. And it is fundamentally no different than learning you can Boots of Blinding Speed across the map without loading if you installed Morrowind to an SSD.

      It is a nice technical achievement. But pretending it was some unique and groundbreaking action is not only buying into the marketing: It is insulting to the devs who did similar with much less.

      • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        I’m not insulting the devs who did similar with much less. I’m insulting the devs who can’t do similar with the same hardware.