Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 days agoI played it on steam deck about a year ago, and TBH it struggled. Though it’s probably been optimised better since, I think development is ongoing. Still the best driving game I’ve played.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
BeamNG is hungry for memory, and afaik became only hungrier with some update last year or so. And it’s generally not very fast, and been so for ages. I doubt it will ever be optimized, they’re probably just betting on hardware outpacing it.
The game has a bit weird architecture where every onscreen widget is a Lua script, and they all communicate with the game via the network. Scenario scripts are done the same way, from what I understand. Although Assetto Corsa has Python and Lua widgets running without any hiccups, so I guess BeamNG’s engine is just heavy.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah, fair enough. I played it for a bit and then moved on, partly because the steam deck was struggling with it. TBF I’m impressed the steam deck could play it at all.