Celcius
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Consoles have super fast SSD's but on PC you have the ability to have much more system RAM. I have 32gb but you could easily go for 64gb, 128gb, etc... Some system even have 1TB these days, though that is expensive.
If loading data from a pci-e 4.0 SSD is fast, imagine if you could start up a game and then it takes like a minute or two to load the ENTIRE GAME into your system RAM, and then from that point forward it's just instantaneous loading. (Think about the loading screens when you initially start up GTAV story mode, except faster)
This would also help with porting some next-gen games to PC that rely on high IO/SSD speed... you don't even need to have a system that has pcie-4.0 or own a super fast storage drive, you can just buy more RAM and upgrade that way (useful for systems that are a little older or don't support pcie-4.0 like my 10700k). A game in the future might even support both options and let you either load the entire game into RAM (if you have enough) or just use your pcie-4.0 storage the same as PS5 for example (if you have fast storage)... otherwise they would just need to make due with normal storage options.
This is possible, correct? Why don't devs do this more... if at all?
If loading data from a pci-e 4.0 SSD is fast, imagine if you could start up a game and then it takes like a minute or two to load the ENTIRE GAME into your system RAM, and then from that point forward it's just instantaneous loading. (Think about the loading screens when you initially start up GTAV story mode, except faster)
This would also help with porting some next-gen games to PC that rely on high IO/SSD speed... you don't even need to have a system that has pcie-4.0 or own a super fast storage drive, you can just buy more RAM and upgrade that way (useful for systems that are a little older or don't support pcie-4.0 like my 10700k). A game in the future might even support both options and let you either load the entire game into RAM (if you have enough) or just use your pcie-4.0 storage the same as PS5 for example (if you have fast storage)... otherwise they would just need to make due with normal storage options.
This is possible, correct? Why don't devs do this more... if at all?
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