Intrinsic on 04 January 2019
| 0D0 said: One thing that I would love to see next gen is getting rid of loading times for good |
Unfortunately this is impossible.
Its not just a size issue but the nature of game data.
A game may need to load say 4GB of data data into RAM. Some may be mistaken to think "hey we have NVME SSDs now capable of 2GB/s transfer speeds so let them just throw one of those in there", but even if that were possible it won't make much of a difference. Reason being that that 4GB is made up of thousands of really small chunks of assets. Access times end up being the limiting factor.
Eg. a game takes
40sec to load with a 150MB/s HDD.
20sec with a 550MB/s SSD
17sec with a 2000MB/s NVME SSD.
Best way to combat load times in games is via really smart data streaming... but not all games can work like that.
