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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, most of the space is filled with textures in a graphical game. Which is odd in 2:1 RAM:disk ratio, since most of the textures are in ddx nowadays, a format the GPU can use 1:1. You can't really compress ddx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're taking ram, though not vram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Still has to be put somewhere, for speed of access. Directly disk to vram would prkbably feel like the chunk loading in Kenshi (engine is old and devs were amateurs).