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FRIDAYTON MK II: 5.5 million bears and salmon create unholy allliance to sack SONY HQ
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i like that
Senor Kami
Banned
And I'm using 6GB, with 8.5GB cached and 1.5GB remaining.
What does that tell you, other than that posting your RAM usage is pointless?
SEGAvangelist
Member
One more?
JoeTheBlow
Banned
This doesn't make any fucking sense at all, in any way shape or form.
I can understand Windows RT framework, Metro, Kinect motion and audio decoding data, and the all the TV stuff taking up 3 gigs, fine, but i can't imagine WTF could ever take up 3.5gigs in the PS4.
If this is revealed to be bullshit, then i'm up for banning DigitalFoundry, because this is about as inflammatory as it gets.
I can understand Windows RT framework, Metro, Kinect motion and audio decoding data, and the all the TV stuff taking up 3 gigs, fine, but i can't imagine WTF could ever take up 3.5gigs in the PS4.
If this is revealed to be bullshit, then i'm up for banning DigitalFoundry, because this is about as inflammatory as it gets.
Shalashaska161
Member
It's not that surprising to me. Sony needs that extra RAM for insurance purposes. This entire generation they've been trying to play catch up to Microsoft and the lack of extra RAM has held them back from reaching feature parity with things like cross-game chat. They don't want another repeat of that.
5.5GB is still plenty, especially for the first couple years of the systems life. We're still going to see some stunning games. And who knows, maybe Sony will end up opening up some of that reserved space for dev's in the future. It happened on the PS3 after all.
5.5GB is still plenty, especially for the first couple years of the systems life. We're still going to see some stunning games. And who knows, maybe Sony will end up opening up some of that reserved space for dev's in the future. It happened on the PS3 after all.
FunkyPajamas
Member
343 is a multiple of 7. 7 is the initially rumored amount of RAM available for developers. Halo lore is filled with references to 7. Halo is a well known First Person Shooter IP. You know what's also a well known FPS IP?
HALF LIFE 3 COMING TO PS4.
Kacho
Member
Please elaborate.
shinobi602
Member
I love you so much for this. You are the greatest of us all.
Of course not. The postmortem said clearly "Our aim for announcement event was to run on PS4 hardware, 1080p, solid 30FPS, no cheats", and the demo used up 1536MB system memory, 128MB system memory, and 3072MB video memory. So if that's true, they apparently were developing on a system with more than 4GB ram.
Well, no, the third OS isn't really an OS, everyone's just saying that because Microsoft called it an OS for some reason.
Neuromancer
Member
PS4.5
SEGAvangelist
Member
Didn't he say comment instead of statement? Don't remember for sure.
littlebirdtoldme
Banned
I want a powerful console that can be tapped to the metal.
Not a fucking sloppy media box, that cant do anything proper, beyond posting tossy viral messages on facebook.
i dont care.
I hope steam box or an other pc company puts together a sleek and powerful pc inabox and steam roll these suckers.
If im going to buy a jack of all trade. i might as well do it proper.
Not a fucking sloppy media box, that cant do anything proper, beyond posting tossy viral messages on facebook.
i dont care.
I hope steam box or an other pc company puts together a sleek and powerful pc inabox and steam roll these suckers.
If im going to buy a jack of all trade. i might as well do it proper.
Now you're just being dumb. The Vita's memory allows it to do multitasking functions. As for the rest of your post, you need to stop.
BloodMoney
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soooo, they double the ram almost entirely to expand the OS footprint... doubtful.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I can't even facepalm enough. Every Playstation has been a multimedia device. My ultimate PC is a multimedia device just like my PS3/360/3DS/Vita. I'm not getting in a war of words when you bring your D game and toss around terms like Sony 180. Go troll someone else.
Yeah because everyone is clamoring for recording video !!!! System seller.
Hitokiri03
Member
I'm not sure about that.
Huh? Afaik can Fraps actually give performances quite a hit.
They said that unlike "no comment" they got an official reply this time. Perhaps that's the confirmation they needed to prior to publishing the article.
Various Artists
Banned
Nope that was posted way earlier.
Insider or are you just speculating like the rest of us here?
FunkyPajamas
Member
Everyone at Sony headquarters is too busy committing sudoku to issue any statements.
Latvian Hitman
Member
That's....I just....
You do realize that very high-end gaming PC's playing the most visually demanding stuff only get up over 3 gigs of RAM usage if they're running multiple displays at high resolutions, right? And the PS4 won't be pushing multiple displays.
Having 5.5 gigs of GDDR5 available is still a huge coup for any gaming console. The mid-field gpu in the PS4 is going to show its age long before the video memory becomes an issue.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
How much ram does the WiiU OS allocate ?
I heard it is slow as hell. Any Nintendo fans willing to gloat ?!
I heard it is slow as hell. Any Nintendo fans willing to gloat ?!
dragonfart28
Banned
I haven't been following the MS side of things.
What do they have RAM-wise and how much is being used for OS?
What do they have RAM-wise and how much is being used for OS?
anexanhume
Member
That's what I am waiting on. Seems odd they jumped at this when a statement was supposedly coming from Sony. Now, if they're wrong about this...
Trogdor1123
Member
I hope they dont have Home this time around lol.
Can Crusher
Banned
PS3 reserves more memory for its OS features than Xbox 360 does.
CambriaRising
Member
Yes, to your CPU. Not your ram, lol
SEGAvangelist
Member
Cuz 3 is better than 2, duh...
shinobi602
Member
I don't know, I doubt Frankie knows anything about the innards of Sony's console beyond what's available. Unless he has moles in Sony HQ...I wouldn't put it past him.
IMO, lots of things is not finalized now and things could change.
2.5GB for OS
1gb for cache [used by both, OS has priority]
4.5 for games
Im hoping for gradual reduction of OS partition size, same as with PSP/PS3. OS partition needs to be 1GB smaller.
WiiU has a 2GB unified ram pool, 1GB is claimed by the OS. However, its slowness has nothing to do with the OS ram size.
2.5GB for OS
1gb for cache [used by both, OS has priority]
4.5 for games
Im hoping for gradual reduction of OS partition size, same as with PSP/PS3. OS partition needs to be 1GB smaller.
WiiU has a 2GB unified ram pool, 1GB is claimed by the OS. However, its slowness has nothing to do with the OS ram size.
Looks like everybody is rolling with around 50% reserved RAM this time. I'm going to guess none of the 3 wanted to be caught with their pants down re: post-launch featuresets. Sony had to give up on features for PS3 due to a lack of available RAM.
From a programmer perspective, it sounds like we were very close to a more interesting situation RAM wise, if Sony had gone with 4GB total.
dugdug
Banned
This thread is moving too fast for me to be able to find it, but, has *anyone* asked someone yet? Has Eurogamer asked Sony? Anyone here ask someone (Sony or dev who's working on a PS4 game) on Twitter?
Do we really still have only one source on this? How has no one said anything yet?
Do we really still have only one source on this? How has no one said anything yet?
That's probably not it. But recording is absolutely a system seller.
xaosslug
Member
um...
How dramatic. So you're going PC now, as the Xbone has a similar amount of memory, but at an inferior speed and coupled with a worse GPU?
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
I'll believe it when I see it.
lol, people cancelling their ps4 pre-orders, pathetic.
Crimson_Gold
Member
Pre-order cancelled. How about you?
Nope. I am still getting mine