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Well there isn't too much, but a couple things jump out

 

#1 they can reduce the OS GPU reserve (allegedly 10% initially). They already stated they are working on doing this in a Eurogamer article, so that is good. A minor help but every bit counts.

 

#2 and the biggie imo, I was at one time pretty connected to the rumor mill and a very solid Microsoft source told me that out of the 3GB of RAM reserve for X1 OS, 1Gb was actually "in limbo". Literally doing nothing. Evidently they would decided later presumably, whether to use this 1GB for the OS or "release" it to games.

 

That info was a good 6 months to 1 year old info and out of date now. The fate of the 1GB may have already been decided months ago for all I know. But releasing that 1GB to games giving the X1 6GB for games would be great. Be aware that even if this happens, we may not find out it did until much later or never. RAM reserves are a closely guarded secret it seems.

 

I imagine that MS HQ is under some pressure right now to increase performance, so they may well move on these fronts.



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The amount of ram dedicated to games isn't a problem and wouldn't "fix" resolutiongate sadly. Really the only thing they can do as far as multiplats is continue to work on better drivers.

Exclusives should look incredible though.



I though ms gave the gpu more power.something like 50 MHz or something like it



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brendude13 said:
They already have, 40x more, through the cloud.

I highly doubt we will see any heavy cloud integration in single player games just for the fact that when your playing offline the game will be gimped or unplayable. 



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Hmm expansion pack?

its not like it would be the first time its been done.. lol



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DD_Bwest said:
Hmm expansion pack?

its not like it would be the first time its been done.. lol

Like Sega Genesis 32x?



TheSting said:
DD_Bwest said:
Hmm expansion pack?

its not like it would be the first time its been done.. lol

Like Sega Genesis 32x?


I was thinking the N64 lol  isnt that what they called the little thing i had to buy way back when so better games would work?



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I doubt cloud can do much if any in rendering stuff. Games still looking incredible on xbox( multi plateform seems to have edge on ps4 though). it won't be much problem if they focus on exclusive. 360 hardly hav any exclusive MS needs to work hard in this department.



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