Depends on what your definition of ages is...I just bought a 1440p monitor 5-6 months ago and at that time there weren't anything other than 30hz 4k monitors, and bad ones at that. I haven't looked since then, don't really have a desire for 4k at this point.Huh? There have been 60hz 4k monitors and TVs for ages.
Depends on what your definition of ages is...I just bought a 1440p monitor 5-6 months ago and at that time there weren't anything other than 30hz 4k monitors, and bad ones at that. I haven't looked since then, don't really have a desire for 4k at this point.
Did they not start making these games huge on purpose, things like uncompressed audio, to thwart piracy too?
Isnt GTAV like 60gb or some nonsense like that. I remember being absolutely dumbfounded that a game takes up more than 10 - 15gb. Ark is around 25, but once you make it playable with mods its more like 40 - 50gb.
Edit, just checked and GTAV is 67gb, and my Ark is 62gb.
Isnt GTAV like 60gb or some nonsense like that. I remember being absolutely dumbfounded that a game takes up more than 10 - 15gb. Ark is around 25, but once you make it playable with mods its more like 40 - 50gb.
Edit, just checked and GTAV is 67gb, and my Ark is 62gb.
The only difference would be the executable and maybe a few driver specific things,you would not have to include the same texture(example) twice, once for each platform.OR maybe everyone is forced by Microsoft's evil, conspiratorial hand to download BOTH versions at the same time, all within the 80GB. Maybe that's why its 80GB. Because us PC gamers are really downloading a CONSOLE GAME along with the real game.
You made Ark playable? If you can tell me how to make Ark playable without castrating the visuals I'm all ears. I realize it's still Early Access, but that has to be one of most unoptimized games graphically I have played in the past 10 years.
You got a 200Mb connection? Must be nice, the national average is 25Mb/sec.80Gb is one of the largest file sizes I've seen for games, but if you have a good internet connection then 80gb is absolutely nothing at all. 80Gb is about 81,920MB and I get about 25MB/sec download speeds so that's like a 54 minute download. That's a smaller amount of time than it would take for me to get my shoes on, walk into town and buy a game from a shelf and walk back, and I live in the middle of a major city. Even if you have half of that (100mbit internet) then you're talking about less than 2 hours.
Hogwash.Compression is fine but guess what, it takes time to uncompress large amounts of data, the simple fact is that recently bandwidth has become more readily available than CPU power, that means it's faster to simply send 80gb of mildly compressed or uncompressed data than it is to send say 50GB of highly compressed data and then spend 4 hours unpacking it.
Found an interview ar Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...ine-lan-free-matchmaking-dlc-smooth-4k-on-pc/Any words on day 1 multi-GPU support ?
Yes, there are “insane” settings... but why?
"DirectX 12 is a big part of how we're able to get additional performance out of the PC," Technical Director Mike Raynor told Ars. "The DX12 graphics API takes away a bunch of layers from the developer and hardware. It's letting us have more direct control over what the GPU's doing... We've completely parallelized the rendering system, meaning we're utilizing and running more CPU cores. One big focus we had was to lower the simulation cost to give headroom for the GPU. A lot of games out there have monster GPU but get framelocked because you're CPU bound. There's a huge upper range we support with what we've done."
I also jacked up settings beyond my rig's near-ultra default and dropped the resolution to 1440p, which still looked gorgeous and rocked a 60fps refresh. I didn't have as much luck pushing some of the settings into the menus' crazy-high "insane" setting, which might be because, according to Raynor, that setting has been offered for future systems and SLI power users: "The game will scale with new hardware that will come out," he said. "You need a really high spec to get in there. It looks awesome, but it's very GPU-hungry." (While I couldn't test Raynor's assertions that the game has been optimized to make the most of SLI graphics card performance, he insisted that users would see substantial boosts if they double-card.)
Haha, unfortunately im in the same boat as you
Its playable in the sense that the gameplay and world is now fun and exciting to live in, but its still the most horribly optimized game I have ever seen. Last time I played it (a few months ago) it had a huge memory leak and the game on its own would use 16gb+ RAM and every single bit of video memory you had avaliable.
This is stupid because now more than ever we need discs.The main reason for buying physical was that it used to be cheaper.But now the main reason is so that you won't have to download 50+GB of data.GTA V came on discs and it was so convienient not having to download all those gigabytes on a 2mbps connection. BRING BACK PC DVDs.Wow, I though GTAV was massive at 65gb. I guess this is why games don't come on discs any more. Still playing GOW3 so I will get 4 when its cheaper.
Must be nice, the national average is 25Mb/sec.
80GB is 8% of a 1TB SSD. That's not trivial, and 1TB SSDs are not cheap.
I don't have an issue with progress, but chances are the bloat is caused by cut-scenes, which is not progress.
80gb is insane. That's what - 10 dvds? it would take me a week to download a game that size on my slow, rural dsl.