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> Grand Theft Auto V is a 100GB install on my computer, but it runs at a buttery smooth framerate on modest hardware. I mean you're not wrong that install size
by hbn 3y ago
> Grand Theft Auto V is a 100GB install on my computer, but it runs at a buttery smooth framerate on modest hardware.
I mean you're not wrong that install size != slow performance, but GTA5 is a funny example for being the game that had 6 minute loading screens to start online mode until someone reverse engineered it and found it was mostly from parsing a giant 10MB JSON blob, and reduced the loading time by 70% with a small patch.
Very possible the bad priorities lead to both the ginormous install size and the fact that no one internal was tasked with fixing the load times.
- dangus 3y agoI forgot about that incident! I guess a better example would have been Baldur’s Gate 3. Perhaps it’s still a decent little business lesson: the highest earning video game of all time had an egregious loading bug and nobody cared for years.
- wmil 3y agoI'm suspicious that long initial loads and things like login queues are actually an advantage. The user doesn't want to end there session until they are sure that they won't want to play for the next hour. They might quit a fast loading game after 15 minutes because it's so easy to start again when they want to.