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People forget that you used to boot your PC into a game disk to play a game. When people started playing games in Windows (full-screen), people like the grandp
by VikingCoder 13y ago
People forget that you used to boot your PC into a game disk to play a game. When people started playing games in Windows (full-screen), people like the grandparent poster would RAIL that booting to a game disk would always be superior to building a game on top of Windows.
- nightski 13y agoWe still have consoles, which get much better performance for the given hardware. True they can't compete with desktops even with the inefficiencies built in, but that is not relevant. The web faces fundamental limitations as long as it is built on the current architecture of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Windows, being a general purpose OS like Linux, has far less restrictions.
- VikingCoder 13y agoJohn Carmack famously reported that you can double the performance of a game engine, if you know exactly what the hardware configuration is. I think that ENTIRELY explains the performance gain you see in consoles. And for most apps, no, there is no major difference in the user interface capabilities of a browser, and a Win32 GUI.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoHonestly, I'm always surprised that games can even run on top of windows and all its accouterments: anti-virus, indexing, random services, etc. I'm assuming there's some API in windows that lets games tell Windows to chill while the game is running.