Comment on How much does storage speed affect your games?

brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Huh, apparently sprite-based games have the heaviest mods to load…

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Part of it might be applying the many patches of definitions and stuff, but it’s probably mostly just loading a shitload of png files in memory.

    Even worse, even after years of updates, the several literal minutes of loading on a HDD happen on a completely unresponsive, static screen (Windows even prompts you with that “kill the app or wait for it to respond” pop-up if you alt-tab out of it).

    There’s a mod to add a progress bar to that initial mod loading. Yeaaah.

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