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Loading. The inevitable part of any gamer’s life. There are many different ways of fighting it – some developers decide to limit the number of textures and objects to load, others try making two-dimensional backgrounds, and Sony doubles the internal memory of their PlayStation Portable. But why do some games need much more time to load than others with similar graphics? The answer is: code optimisation.
The wannabe developers often release games that require twice as much RAM or CPU power as they would if they were produced by, let’s say, Activision. They usually don’t optimise their code as much as the experienced developers would. Thus, you don’t see many games that take ages to load published on the 360, because it is extremely difficult to pack a game into one DVD disc and developers are forced to make their code as compact as possible.
PC gaming, however, isn’t limited by the capacity of a disc. Not only do the unexperienced developers fail to produce optimised games – it often happens to such giants as EA. Have you ever played Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on your computer? I could easily make myself a cup of tea while a new level was loading. There are THOUSANDS of other games with such a poor performance, but complaining about their efficiency is pointless; you will always hear the “get a better PC” argument as an answer. 
Of course, you can go to the shop and buy yourself a new graphic card, but wouldn’t it be better to spend this money on new games?
Obviously, it would. I don’t really like to see the new DirectX being implemented in computer games, I don’t really want my PC game to have outrageously great graphics, I don’t really want to be forced to change the game’s graphic details level to the minimum. I want my games to be working as fast as they were on the E3 demo when they were announced. And that’s why I value the next-gen consoles much more than the modern personal computers.
I do realise that this rant probably won’t convince the die-hard PC gamers to change their mind, but just think of how much cash you spend on new processors, graphic cards and RAM memory and how many games you could buy for it. In my opinion, PC gaming will eventually die, and now is the best time to abandon the sinking ship of hardware upgrades and join the gaming community with the brightest future.
Just get yourself a console.
posted on Saturday, 15th December, 2007 at 17:28 (UTC +1000)
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March 22nd, 2008 at 15:10
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