> So both a coffee, and a piss.
Reminds me on loading "G.I. Joe" (from Epyx) on the C64 with a 1541 floppy disk. However, the long loads came after every time you died and meant you also had to swap 4 disks.
Reminds me on loading "G.I. Joe" (from Epyx) on the C64 with a 1541 floppy disk. However, the long loads came after every time you died and meant you also had to swap 4 disks.
To be fair to GTA V, I don't think my installation was on a SSD because it was 50GB or something at the time (now it's 95GB?), but that said when it released SSDs were not as cheap or widespread as they are now so that's their problem. The linked article shows the initial load to be much shorter which did not match my experience.
Which meant the game displayed "rewind to mark 500 and then hit play" and you had to do that to restart lolsob.
I suppose devs dont care about that as long as their QA allows it.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is around 200GB fully installed with all features (HD textures etc).
Some people have insinuated this is intentional to crowd out other games on console hard disks and make moving away from CoD have an opportunity cost. It's probably just laziness.
I haven't looked into it in the past but some prior offenders had a lot of space wasted from uncompressed multi-lingual audio. Instead of letting us choose a language it installs them all so you can switch in game, and uncompressed for saving the CPU for game logic. For CoD the optional HD texture pack is 38GB so that's still a lot unaccounted for.
It's not like decoding audio takes enough time on any modern multi-core processor to disrupt the game loop. It's not even on the radar.
Many 8bit Atari owners will have horror memories of aborted Tape loads. After over 20 years someone finally discovered a bug in original ATARI Tape loading ROM routine resulting in randomly corrupted loads, no amount of sitting motionless while the game loads would help in that case :)