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Not if it's got suitable compressed textures and whatnot.
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The stuff could load into memory in the background while you access the menu, if they wanted to construct the system that way. I don't see a problem.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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They could do all of this stuff on the PS2 as well (and the Xbox), but it doesn't happen.
Why is that?
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Because they don't want to spend the time to figure it out and put it in software.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Stop being coy, Asher.
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Because it's a huge waste of memory bandwidth, which is used for actual computations...not loading.
It's not a simple matter of transfering a chunk of, say, 64MB from the disc to the RAM...
Also, as you may have noticed from using the PC, accessing the discs seems to stall the rest of the computer while it waits for data. This is no different on the game consoles -- the controller is integrated with the GPU usually."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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I thought it might be something like that.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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You're FOS, Asher. It's coming out of your ears.
The amount of memory bandwidth required for loading and doing menu stuff is miniscule. Entirely not even worth the thought.Because it's a huge waste of memory bandwidth, which is used for actual computations...not loading.
Those problems arise from using a primitive I/O bus like the XBox did. Neither the 360 nor the PS/3 should have these considerations.Also, as you may have noticed from using the PC, accessing the discs seems to stall the rest of the computer while it waits for data. This is no different on the game consoles -- the controller is integrated with the GPU usually.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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According to a gamespot article, Sony hasnt decided yet if it will ship the PS3 with a harddrive.So, the PS3 won't have a harddrive standard...so no level caching.
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It won't come with one.Originally posted by flash9286
According to a gamespot article, Sony hasnt decided yet if it will ship the PS3 with a harddrive.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06...s_6126832.html
Sony's PR machine says that, developers are being told not to assume a HD exists."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by DanS
You're FOS, Asher. It's coming out of your ears.
You're clearly very up to speed with modern game engines, aren't you?The amount of memory bandwidth required for loading and doing menu stuff is miniscule. Entirely not even worth the thought.
You do know that virtually nothing is stored uncompressed on the discs, right? How do they get decompressed? Do decompression algorithms take up additional memory? Do they take up CPU/GPU cycles?
When the levels are being loaded, they're also be initialized. When you have only 32MB/64MB of RAM, you can't be lazy and just store and load. If that was the case you could fill up the Xbox's memory @ 5MB/s = 13s max. This is assuming they're contiguous in memory and there's no seek delays... (PS2 is 2.5MB/s, but 32MB...so also 13s)
What the hell do you base this on?Those problems arise from using a primitive I/O bus like the XBox did. Neither the 360 nor the PS/3 should have these considerations.
The Xbox's I/O bus was hypertransport, by the way. You call that primitive?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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In any case, Dan...
1x Blu-Ray would take 114 seconds = nearly 2 minutes to fill 512MB of RAM, even if it was a simple memory block copy (which it's not)."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Maybe because they haven't decided yet?Sony's PR machine says that, developers are being told not to assume a HD exists.
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They won't decide that. Sony is skating on thin ice, their PS3 will cost a lot to make as they've outlined it.Originally posted by Kalius
Maybe because they haven't decided yet?
It'll be Blu-Ray or HDD, not both."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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I'll be getting the Revolution, myself. I'm a Nintendo fanboy."I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
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