You guys seem smart, how does streaming game textures through a online server work? (2024)

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its fricking moronic
its gonna eat up the transfer limit like fricking cookies
their sales are gonna tank even vurther

wtfs with gayme studios and commiting ritual suicide, lately?

what are the chances devs have tried to explain how dumb it is to managers and execs but they just get told to shut up and find a solution

dono. its a triple a industry were talking about
people with a brain prolly left a while ago

Transfer limits? Those are a thing outside of mobile data?

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Usually the game has a low quality version of the texture that serves as fallback, sometimes playing games you may notices that a texture looks quite blurry well that’s it.
Virtual textures are textures that are streamed from disk instead of loaded upfront.
There’s no difference between streaming from disk and streaming from the internet, really. From the point of the system, it’s requesting data on the fly. Where it comes from doesn’t matter

>Transfer limits? Those are a thing outside of mobile data?
yeah, i guess.
in belgium all "unlimited" offers have actually a limit, written in fine print.
usually its 1TB per month.

and many people have a limit of 250Gb.
its belgium were talking about, not some 3rd world sh*thole.
albeit these tended to have better intenet offers to be honest.

>the eternal consoomers
in my book theyre part of the problem.
fricking Black personcattle.

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not necessarily. you could be loading the assets before each match, or upon connecting to the server.
i wonder what the logistics of it are gonna look like, bc even dling a "measly" 1GB will take an appreciable amount of time.

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>cawadoody wont give a flying frick about any of this any time soon.
i hope for the best, but ultimately i dont have a dog in this race
not my company, not my consumers, not my money.
its still bewildering and i still think its a risky and stupid idea.

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no, its a hard block in my case.
(in belgium at least) residential internet, even when advertised as "unlimited", has a hard cap of 1TB
to get true unlimited you have to pay the full price.
which comes to pretty much the same as you would have to pay in america for the equivalent from what i saw. around 150 bucks per month (i didnt really comb through the internet offers available in usa. especially i cant even access the majority of ISP websites from europe)

one caveat:
i saw that some interent offers are advertised as unlimited in america, but you have a certain amount of data data already included in the package, and once you go beyond you pay extra.
unlimited apparently is used as in "unlimited in absolute. but only 250GB included in your plan, 10 bucks extra for each 50GB above that"

we dont have this here.
unlimited means "unlimited" included in the package, even if theres a hard max cap (like the 1TB in my case)

In The Netherlands an "unlimited" plan typically has a "fair use" clause.
I don't think it's a hard cap or even a soft cap, but if you max out your connection 24/7 they can cancel your subscription.

I've never heard of anyone getting affected by "fair use" and I know people who were in the scene.
I'm pretty sure that creating/restoring a 10TB online backup wouldn't be a problem for example.
This is about people maxing out their connection on purpose to "frick the system" or people running a very popular server from home.

Transfer limits? Those are a thing outside of mobile data?

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Usually the game has a low quality version of the texture that serves as fallback, sometimes playing games you may notices that a texture looks quite blurry well that’s it.
Virtual textures are textures that are streamed from disk instead of loaded upfront.
There’s no difference between streaming from disk and streaming from the internet, really. From the point of the system, it’s requesting data on the fly. Where it comes from doesn’t matter

>dear players, we have decided to drop support for the call of duty: black ops 6 texture streaming servers. you can no longer play this game ever again 😀

>time passes
>money stolen

lol lmao

>But go on, continue with your schizophrenic conspiracy theory about how the israelites are doing something because you insist on using a 250GB hard drive or on having just one single NVME drive to store everything
You might have a point if a 2TB expansion card wasn't half the price of an Xbox series x

Me personally I have 14TB of flash on my PC but console users are getting buttfricked, either it's overpriced expansion cards on the xbox or the single m.2 port on the PS5 that must also be pcie 4

>the eternal consoomers
in my book theyre part of the problem.
fricking Black personcattle.

does texture streaming not have any effect on frame render time then?

not necessarily. you could be loading the assets before each match, or upon connecting to the server.
i wonder what the logistics of it are gonna look like, bc even dling a "measly" 1GB will take an appreciable amount of time.

>VoTe WiTh YoUr WaLlEtS
guess what fricknuts, publishers keep doing this sh*t because it keeps working, the kind of moron that buys yearly and plays cawadoody wont give a flying frick about any of this any time soon.

>cawadoody wont give a flying frick about any of this any time soon.
i hope for the best, but ultimately i dont have a dog in this race
not my company, not my consumers, not my money.
its still bewildering and i still think its a risky and stupid idea.

Is that a soft limit for you? Like they limit your speed after 1tb? I'm an American and unlimited is unlimited. I'm legitimately interested.

no, its a hard block in my case.
(in belgium at least) residential internet, even when advertised as "unlimited", has a hard cap of 1TB
to get true unlimited you have to pay the full price.
which comes to pretty much the same as you would have to pay in america for the equivalent from what i saw. around 150 bucks per month (i didnt really comb through the internet offers available in usa. especially i cant even access the majority of ISP websites from europe)

>I hope it gets better in Europe. The eu really should crack down on data caps.
data caps is not something that really bothers us. most of europe are somewhat poorgay-ish. the unexepcted upside of that is that consumerism is much less ingrained into europeans.
so, no netflix, older computers, and both add up to less bandwidth needed.
but also most people have a 250GB data package, not needing more.
i wonder how are they even going to download the latest COD.
thats a non-negligible portion of revenue lazyvision just pissed away.

and were living on top of eachother compared to america, so a regional emigration is not really a thing here.
europe is the size of a handkerchief with 1.5x the population of usa. for reference, france is 900 kms across, or merely 560 miles across