Comment on Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space

aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s been a thing for a while now. Basically all the big, modern games, that are also on current gen consoles want SSDs (some are just SSD recommended on minimum specs, but required for higher specs). BG3, Cyberpunk, many of the Playstation Studios games, some Xbox studios stuff, etc.

  Hardware Unboxed recently did a video, if the drive speed matters (mainly about PCIe SSD speed) and tested with HDDs, SATA SSDs and NVME SDDs. They found that some games will give you a notice if they detect an HDD, but almost all will still run, even if the specs say an SSD is required. Most of the time, the initial load times will be loooooong with an HDD, but otherwise the games still work, although a few had graphical glitches because of slow asset streaming. Once you get to SATA SSDs, it starts to matter a lot less, and with an NVME you just want the biggest drive for your budget (like <10% difference for the initial load times, if at all, between PCIe 3.0 and 5.0).

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think this is a good thing, personally.

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  • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do you think increasing hardware requirements for a game is a good thing?

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Uh, I mean, this is generally unavoidable with the passage of time and the advance of technology so, as vague as a statement as yours is, yes I do think so.

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      • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unavoidable, sure, as an unwanted side-effect of increasing overall quality, but since it’s possible to create unoptimized games that increase hardware requirements without delivering any improvements at all, if we cherish the hardware demand increases, we will create a fertile scenario for unoptimization, market manipulation and exclusion of people in the game industry.

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    • Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It has to come with a steep increase in performance. As someone who does not care for realistic graphics I could live without it.

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• Jackusflackus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You think a mechanical hdd is sufficient for playing a 100gb game? That would be so painful it’s not even funny.

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  • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not. The size of the game isn’t the limiting factor.

      Anecdotally, I played Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 and occasionally got loading screens while out and about in the open world. I assume the HDD was the cause of this.

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  • Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    worked fine for me for a couple decades. what’s painful about it exactly?

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    • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Games have changed quite a bit in the past couple decades grandpa

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  • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, it depends the game.

    There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.

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