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Even if you could use 10GB worth, with a massively open play area¹ how easy is it to manage which 10GB of the assets do you load? Both the games I've mentioned weigh in at about 70GB. Even if we consider with 16GB to be the minimum for a serious gamer, you aren't going to use most of that for caching assets. Last time I saw Steam hardware survey results less than 50% of machines surveyed had 16GB or more RAM.Ģ. People who game alot or are just well off might have 32GB, but game publishers need to support much lower configs than that (the recommended minimum for GTA5 is 8GB and it technically supports 4, for the newer Cyperpunk 2077 those figures are still only 12GB and 8). You might think “just cache it in RAM, my 6GB graphics card is far smaller than the 32GB sat on my motherboard”, but there are two issues there:ġ. This asset loading is almost always done in a background thread and is pretty much a 1:1 match for an NVMe queue - request the blocks containing the data you need, ask to be flagged when a block has been DMAed into the memory area you want it in, and then decompress it in the background.Ī large part of loading delay, either initial load or between levels/areas, in some games is getting high-res textures and other bulk data from storage into the graphics memory.

Many games also use a separate thread for physics as well, and some use worker threads for AI / rules engine NPC behavior as well.Īnyway, loading data is where the parallel and batched nature of modern gaming workloads comes in - almost all games at this point do some kind of constant background asset loading to avoid the need for load screens between areas. Many (maybe most, still) games have embarrassingly single-threaded game logic (i.e., there's still one 'runloop' thread which manages game state), but almost universally at this point there's a separate thread for loading data, decompressing data, asset / script compilation, and audio. > Almost all games today aren't just single threaded, they are laughably single threaded. The pew-pew crowd gets unhappy above 40ms, although there are tricks for FPS games to make targeting work across laggy links. You can't buffer the video ahead, like you can for pre-stored video. At 120 FPS, a few hundred miles of transmission delay alone costs a frame time. Speed of light alone is too much slowdown to allow remote VR rendering. There are performance downsides of cloud gaming.

#Gta 4 razor1911 stuck on loading download

Or, for example, the Matrix demo for Unreal Engine 5, where you download 16 square kilometers of highly detailed city. A Ready Player One quality metaverse will have the same problem.

#Gta 4 razor1911 stuck on loading simulator

Flight Simulator needs that, because, like Google Earth, they have a whole planet of assets. If the work is being done 'in the cloud', there can be much more bandwidth to the asset servers.Īt least 10GB between game machine and asset store, all within the data center. With enough bandwidth and a gamer PC, it's not bad, but many users are on slow links with weak clients, and suffer badly. Second Life delivers content on the fly, and you get to watch stuff appear as content comes in. Delivering assets to the user needs more bandwidth than delivering video. Once we get past the NFT clown car era, and big-world systems with user created content at high resolution come out, metaverse systems will have to face the bandwidth problem Second Life faces. That's an interesting issue for the 'metaverse'. Vortex's site now says they are no longer accepting new users, and their blog is a Google Stadia ad. Games have to be ported to it, and there's suspicion it may soon join the long list of former Google products. You can only run games that NVidia has ported to that system. Originally, the prices were lower, but that was in the loss leader phase.

#Gta 4 razor1911 stuck on loading free

There's a free tier, where you wait to get in and get kicked off after an hour or two. For $17/month, you get a better server with an NVidia 3080 and 8 hours before being kicked off. Apparently you can stay connected as long as you want, although I'm not sure if there's a limit they are not mentioning up front. When you connect, they launch a server for you and load your environment into it. The trouble is that each user needs an entire server, one comparable to a gamer PC.Ĭloud gaming services seem to come in two flavors - expensive, and loss leader. 'Cloud gaming' of the kind where the game runs on a server and the results are sent as video to the client has been tried, on and off, for about five years. Judging by the ones that have gone broke, no. Do these cloud gaming offerings really make a profit with current hardware costs?