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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 57 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Despite high memory prices

Were they supposed to rewrite the entire game in the last 4 months?

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No need to rewrite the game, just choose a new art style and completely re-author all materials in the game. Maybe use fewer PBR maps for all the unimportant stuff too. Shouldn’t take more than a couple days.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you like being a project manager?

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Couldn’t we just synergize and align the teams by proactively leveraging the power of AI? We should be able to maximise throughput by using AI to solve this problem, and I think we can drive success of the key deliverable by freeing up our resources, allowing them time to capitalize on future opportunities. With that said, is one sprint enough to get this deliverable to done, or do we need two sprints?

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Any good project manager knows you never never ever split anything across two sprints. You always gotta split things down until everything is doable in one sprint. Anything else is going to drag down your business KPIs hard.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Clickbait headline:

16GB mininum

It will run on 16GB; the original announcement even mentions the Switch 2. There’s no reasoning would need 32GB for 60 FPS, given low settings and a CPU that can push it.

That headline's a bit disappointing, as I really love Notebookcheck. Their reviews and databases are incredible.

[–] UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Not to mention game development takes years. Its not like you can just reduce system requirements at the end of development because of an unpredictable hardware shortage.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

9000-series intel

Minimum requirements

Oh noooo… is my 9900k getting old? I feel like it was only recently that I put this computer together, jeez…

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair, the 9000 series has the same architecture as Intel's 6000 series Skylake CPUs, from 2015.

There is no 9500K, but I assume they’re referencing this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/134895/intel-core-i59500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz/specifications.html

Which is 6C/6T.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Wild! It’s still performing perfectly for everything I throw at it, but it just feels like I built it so much less long ago hahaha.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've played games with some of my system's stats at minimum requirements or slightly above before. Usually not fun.

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, seeing this, I'm really not too worried. IOI has always managed pretty impressive visuals in the past too, their stuff is really well optimized, considering the scope of their simulations. I'm really not that concerned for the game at these recommended specs.

This really doesn't make a lot of sense. What game needs 16gb of ram anyway?

I don't really know of many shooters that are CPU and ram limited so badly that you only get 60fps @ 1080p with cards like a RX 6700 - like the bottleneck has to be the GPU in that scenario, despite it being their recommended target right?

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My dude’s… I don’t even game and I’ve been maxing out every system for the last 10 years.

#FUCKAI

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You should probably stop downloading trojan horse crypto miners.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think that he means that he's added the maximum amount of memory that his hardware supports, rather than that he's been keeping his GPU computation capacity filled.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

You know, that does make sense.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah… I’ll keep that in mind 🤣

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Excel really does need 32gb.... at minimum.

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[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unoptimized slop pushes hardware sales. Rinse and repeat.

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[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The games supposed to be a bit of a live service game so maybe it has a chance in the long term. Still skeptical though that it'll succeed in the face of its budget

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And what amount of RAM does a common modern gaming machine have?

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 19 points 3 days ago (10 children)

According to Steam hardware survey, ~55.7% of systems have less than 32GB.

Xbox S, Xbox X, and Ps5 have 16GB.

So safe to safe majority of gamers do not have 32GB and aren't getting more any time soon.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Mmm....note that the consoles there use unified memory. It's not quite the same thing, but it'd be closer to compare unified memory on a console to main memory plus video memory on a PC than to just main memory alone.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

True, which means they basically have less than 16GB due to whatever the gpu uses which puts them at less than minimum recommended specs.

That either means consoles are getting a more optimized build (doubted) or they're cutting things that they could offer a toggle for on PC. Either way not a good look in this current market.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265034/proportion-of-used-computers-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam-by-system-ram/

System random-access memory (RAM) share among Steam users as of June 2025

Memory Percent of users
8 GB 8.95%
16 GB 43.05%
32 GB 34.37%
Other 13.63%

That being said, I don't know if one could say that a machine that has run Steam is necessarily "modern" or a "gaming machine". But I don't know what better statistic you'd get.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fucks sake, why is every big budget game trying to be the new Crysis

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I watched a bit of the gameplay reveal, looks like it could be interesting. Except, Bond's model is TERRIBLE. Just looking at his face makes me want to pass up the game completely.

[–] Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For me it was hearing Lenny Kravitz try to be a voice actor that made me knew I'd be passing.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Lenny Kravitz sucks, but goddamn is his daughter talented

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Please nooooooo. I've never been so excited for a single player game :(

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, just add it to the list and get it a couple years down the line.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Dare I say it, but if you are really that excited, consider GeForce Now? It’s cheap, as long as you drop the subscription like a rock when you’re done.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the idea, but fuck Nvidia with a rusty fork and no lube.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Fair enough, heh.

There are other game streaming services, like: https://shadow.tech/

Just to name one.

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