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| JoeTheBro said: This is kinda crazy. The advantage of using real memory instead of virtual memory for suspended applications offers such little improvement. Only reason it could be smart would be if Microsoft doesn't want to suspend apps but why would they do that? Best I can think of is playing a game with internet snapped to the side while a second game is in matchmaking, the youtube app is downloading a video, and you are talking on skype. Is this rare situation worth it? This kinda goes back to xbone verse ps4 ram I guess. DDDR3 is cheap so they could get a lot of it. Back then the PS4 only had 2GB of ram so Microsoft logically thought the sky was the limit with multitasking. Why would they worry when they had so much extra? Then Sony jumped to 4 and again to 8. Now Microsoft's ram plans just seem wastefull. |
I believe the Hyper-V tech expecially the one that runs everything is just a management type of system. One of the big benefits is that the main Hyper V can dynamically turn on and off cores on the fly, management memory and resources. This gives the X1 the ability to run in a bunch of power states for concerving power and resources and management between Games and Applications. Its this separation that allows the games part to exist out side of the whole system and work independantly of whats going on within the X1.
Also one of the biggest things only on person has stated is that they Hyper-V tech allows MS to not have to worry about backwards compatibility. This is one reason why we say different Development systems running X1 games. If people remember E3 where Titans were running X1 development kits. With this tech, the dependancy for true hardware becomes more abstract, probably ushering in that digital age where you can bring up different VMs to run diffeerent systems like the 360.
Another benefit of the hyper-V tech is the snap feature which regular MP will not be so easy to replicate. With both running side by side you can have a companion app running to your main game which is something I am wondering if we will see on the X1 from developers. One game that sounds like it will go this direction is Quantum Break. You can have the TV episode running while you also have the game running and both can talk to each other and take ques thus producing something very unique.
