Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN

capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No, I don’t remember that at all.

  Some did. Some didn’t.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What you on about, there’s always been crappy game releases. There’s a reason “can it run crisis” became a meme. That game is a lot older than 10 years old and it was a unoptimized mess when it was released.

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  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, Crytek said it wasn’t unoptimized, but graphically over tuned on purpose, so that even years after release new hardware could finally play the game to its full potential and keep it a relevant graphical benchmark.

    If that was a stupid idea in hind sight is another matter 👀.

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I heard nothing in CryEngine 2 was multithreaded because they bet on processors getting better single core performance instead of getting more cores (which is what happened). Not sure about the gpu load though

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      • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ooooo, that’s a nice fun fact, ty!

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.

  If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or when they didn’t have zero day patches because it was a cartridge.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They did not.

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• alehel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t 10 - 15 more accurate at this point? I think we’re older than we think.

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• Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember, it was in the lands of make believe I think.

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