Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
by virtue3 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:19PM
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Video games still target pretty mainstream pc specs. They have to, or no one can run the game. Sans Crysis.
Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:39PM
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Not every game is Crysis for sure, but for instance, a lot of AAA games right now require 8 GB of memory minimum. The $400 Surface Go 2 that came yesterday has only 4 GB of memory in the base config, and such specs aren't isn't particularly uncommon. Not that you'd be playing AAA games on that machine even if it had more memory, but hence my point.
Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
by grogenaut on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:01PM
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Neither the Xbone or the PS4 offer 8GB of ram to the game (system reserves), and yet almost every AAA game launches on those platforms.
They likely couldn't run Slack or the NYT tho. Just think about how slow the PS4 store loads (it's html5) or the whole xbone ui.
Games are actually optimized for speed. NYT is optimized on a different key performance indicator.
Also, Half Life 2 was a state-of-the-art video game for an audience that largely had fancy gaming PCs.