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The rocks were the graphics in the analogy, but more to the point...
A GPU can render, as an example, a single soldier in an RTS game. It renders them once.
There are 30 thousand of them.
Want to know how many times it renders the exact same model? Once per animation frame. Which could be a...
Nope, 2 separate buckets that are entirely unconnected.
You know, like a CPU and GPU are entirely different things.
Making the buckets bigger and tougher is the equivalent to getting better hardware.
Want to know why games focused on graphics for the PS4 and Xbox 1? Because they had shit...
Let us assume you have two buckets. One of these buckets holds pretty rocks and the other one holds apples.
Does adding more pretty rocks to one of the buckets mean the other can hold fewer apples?
Finally managed to play Half Life Alyx.
Not gonna lie, it's very Survival Horror esq. I love it, very big change of pace from Half Life 1 and 2. You can really feel what lacking an HEV suit causes. Gordan can just walk through gunfire like it isn't even there, Alyx gets fucked up real fast if...
Oh yeah no, they have no real excuse. Blops 6 is just really bad in more or less every single possible way. It doesn't even render properly on AMD GPUs, likely because they forgot to turn off the console detection feature so it reads the GPU as though it were a console and downgrades features.
Some of them probably could, but picture the hassle of maintaining 2 different branches of your game for people on older game consoles. Helldivers can get away with it easier because it really does just affect load times, but just imagine the stutters. Traversal stutters are already a bitch to...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v8cJfkZvK6M
Note: Helldivers is not the only game that worked this way. Duplicated files is standard for a lot of the industry because the PS4 and Xbox One used HDDs, which were really slow and needed them. You'll find similar optimizations in older PC games...
Close enough to true
*after they tried to obliterate humanity
The fuck you on about?
Have you ever read the Horus Heresy novels?
What was the right thing to do in 40k?
And suddenly China invades india and causes untold death. And Israel gets invaded by all of its neighbors, doing the same.
Good job breaking it, "hero"