Cinder City may have been briefly the first game to recommend 64GB of RAM on PC, but the developer has corrected the listing to say it was an error.

Cinder City may have been briefly the first game to recommend 64GB of RAM on PC, but the developer has corrected the listing to say it was an error.

    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I agree that video games have had technological regression, but what about hardware? That slowly but steadily continues to develop right?

      • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        but what about hardware?

        The easiest way to know that hardware is also biting the dirt is looking at price to performance gain.

        The price to performance gain is skyrocketing gen over gen in general.

        Moore’s law is completely dead.

        The improvements up until, for example, the 10 series GTX from Nvidia, were gigantic.

        Starting with the 20 series RTX, the improvements tanked. 30 series had a pretty good jump in performance. 40 series was a joke, same as 50 series.

        Dies are more and more cut down from the top spec. As in, the current 5090 has the biggest and most powerful die. The 5080 is about 50% of that. This did not use to be the case. In the 10 series, the 1070’s die size was almost the same as the 1080 Ti’s die size. Flagships used to be sub $1000, now they are over $3000 considering the artificially limited supply.

        RAM and SSD’s are a disaster.

        Motherboards removed any and all useful features, like the debug 2 digit indicators, without dropping prices.

        CPU’s are alright I guess. Cases are getting pretty cool, I like them. Same for cooling solutions.

        Power supplies keep exploding even today.

        The 12VHPWR power connector that Nvidia uses and took part in “developing” is a disgrace to all of humanity.

        Most importantly, the entry level of PC hardware no longer exists. It’s gone. They’re doing to the PC hardware market what they did to the auto market. They can no longer improve anything at the same prices as before, so they’re no longer participating in the bottom of the performance spectrum, they’re pricing consumers out, and colluding to make things go their way via subscriptions and cloud bullshit.

        They’re using the money they save from better proceses to make deals with one another instead of passing it down to the consumer to get more sales volume, because there’s so few players that cooperation is better than competition.

        So, no, I’d say the hardware is nowhere near doing well, not for us anyway. For the datacenters that are destroying every aspect to this world it’s pretty good I guess.

    • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      You give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. There’s no real desire to make stuff efficient when people just accept it.

      A different example is that if you said 15 years ago that all of your desktop programs would actually be running each in their own individual web browser, people would look at you like you’re crazy. Now it’s somehow normal.