The problem I see with it is that we've gone the full circle. First games loaded slow on HDDs, but SSDs solved it. Then, seeing how SSDs are faster, game developers decided they could fit more read/write operations. Now games load slow on SSDs.

>A 4TB HDD currently costs more than it did a decade ago. What the fuck are you on? That's RAM that's currently skyrocketing because of AI, you dipshit. I just bought a 12 TB HDD for $250. Memory is the cheapest it's ever been and has always been on a downward decline like that. You don't know what you're talking about.

So you get racist af to prove your point? Fuck off twat and stop being a bitch. It's not unreasonable to put money into your hobby. That's what you do. You buy a game here and there, and you upgrade your hardware. What you don't do is bitch and moan that you can't keep up when the effort to do so isn't that much and at the end of the day, no one *owes* you AAA games. Cry harder. It's shit like this that makes gamers look like entitled bitches. You have it vastly better than any other time and you still take most of your time to bitch and moan.

In the case of Mario it's a smart way of handling the limited data available, its not a duplicate texture like Helldivers, its the same cloud copy pasted just with a different color. From what I understand Helldivers had the same files duplicated multiple times so that HDD could find them easily (somehow)

Ahh yes, the same approach I have to script development: multiple files, in different places, for different platforms, all with the same code!

Nah, in this case the circle is the devs wanting to optimize for HDDs. Which made the game bigger with duplicated files. Which forced players to install the game in HDDs since they lacked space on SSD. Having the choice for both will offer the best for each case.

Having both options available would be pretty nice

Fuck fake frames. All my homies use real frames.

I’m also white and have also technically benefited from colonialism, lol. The problem with yours and [@fishos@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/fishos) line of thinking is that you are looking at that 90USD / 30USD through the lens of your own earning and buying power. For someone in your hypothetical “poor African country”, that may well be days or weeks of income. Both of you seem to be having a strong reaction to that statement, I get the impression I’ve struck a nerve and that you might be facing (and rejecting) an inconvenient truth. Ultimately, that doesn’t matter - y’all in here simping for corps by excusing 100GB of inefficiency and it’s not a pretty look.

Oh shit! I might actually reinstall this thing

And the community is still mad, because apparently doing this after 2 years is _WRONG_

They are still better anti aliasing than TAA.

I never said anything about frame generation.

Then what the heck do you think DLSS uses?

Funny how you say that when the extra space was used specifically to improve the experience for people still using HDDs. It's 2025, no one using an HDD should be complaining about load times.

You're way too rude for somebody this unaware of the topic at hand. FSR and DLSS are at their core temporal upscalers. They take motion vectors, subpixel samples from jittering objects, and a low resolution scene, and using shaders for FSR or AI models for DLSS, interpolate the existing pixels to fill the entire target resolution. That's it. This is **not** frame generation, and they don't *use* anything, whatever you meant by that. You can then, on *top of* the regular upscaling, enable frame generation to enable an entirely different path that holds frames in the buffer and creates intermediary frames. Those are the fake frames you complained about. One can use both FSR and DLSS without no frame generation whatsoever, and both were originally created without any type of frame generation to begin with. At the present, Helldivers **already uses FSR** without frame generation - just for upscaling - but it's FSR, a matrix based spatial scalar that only looks at one central pixel and tries to apply weights to determine how to fill in the neighbors. This looks horrendous. FSR 2.x and onwards, and DLSS, use the full temporal mechanism I described. That's "what the heck" I think DLSS does.

I'm not very impressed that they used an optimization that blew up the game size 5x that they knew would only benefit a subset of users without even doing any profiling on it until 2 years after release. Good that they eventually revisited it, but someone fucked up making that decision in the first place.


Glad to see you recognize you were completely wrong and had to shift the conversation to a different topic.

frankly it seems a bit late in the game to start worrying about low level simple optimization like this. Perhaps they are upset that they had to endure bloated installs for so long? which seems reasonable considering the enormously ridiculous 145gb....