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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens. It's very disruptive to t

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens. It's very disruptive to the illusion of video games when textures change on the fly as you interact with the game. I just wish it could be configurable instead of assuming it's always best to stream textures from disk on the fly, instead of upfront loading of them.

polytely 6y ago
Well that seems to be more of a problem of current gen hardware not being able to keep up with the requirements of the game. I hope that the ps5 and xbox series x(?)(microsofts naming scheme keeps confusing me) faster memory will make it so that you won't see them loading in anymore. I can imagine this immersion breaking effect was one of the reasons they both went in this direction with the development of the new consoles.
- bobbob1921 6y ago
  I agree that the name Microsoft chose for this new Xbox is a bit ridiculous. So they have the current gen- Xbox X, and the new GEN is called the “Xbox series X“ (I’m not a big gamer so I may have that wrong)
gruez 6y ago
>Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens But we're talking get rid of loading screens, what you described would only occur in the first few seconds of the game. It's hardly immersion breaking. If we're talking about the general problem of pop-ins (ie. during normal gameplay), loading screens aren't better either, as you would see jarring loading screens as you move through the game world.
mappu 6y ago
Mipmaps aside - I remember texture pop-in being a common complaint for the original RAGE (and being one of the complainers). But i replayed it recently on a regular SSD and the effect was barely noticeable at all. So i'm confident that an NVMe disk with direct GPU DMA will really make this a non-issue.

polytely 6y ago

Well that seems to be more of a problem of current gen hardware not being able to keep up with the requirements of the game. I hope that the ps5 and xbox series x(?)(microsofts naming scheme keeps confusing me) faster memory will make it so that you won't see them loading in anymore. I can imagine this immersion breaking effect was one of the reasons they both went in this direction with the development of the new consoles.

bobbob1921 6y ago
I agree that the name Microsoft chose for this new Xbox is a bit ridiculous. So they have the current gen- Xbox X, and the new GEN is called the “Xbox series X“ (I’m not a big gamer so I may have that wrong)

gruez 6y ago

>Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens But we're talking get rid of loading screens, what you described would only occur in the first few seconds of the game. It's hardly immersion breaking. If we're talking about the general problem of pop-ins (ie. during normal gameplay), loading screens aren't better either, as you would see jarring loading screens as you move through the game world.

mappu 6y ago

Mipmaps aside - I remember texture pop-in being a common complaint for the original RAGE (and being one of the complainers). But i replayed it recently on a regular SSD and the effect was barely noticeable at all. So i'm confident that an NVMe disk with direct GPU DMA will really make this a non-issue.