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Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Maybe this will be a boon. The entire reason the ram requirements got so high as it is is because devs got lazy and stopped optimizing stuff. Maybe a ram shortage where people can’t obtain the ram needed will force the big name software devs to start being more frugal with ram. (talking to you chrome… whom currently is using 2 gigs alone just trying to show a twitch stream…)
kieron115@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good fuck studios just throwing optimization into the bin cause they can. They should fucking actually do some problem solving instead of brute forcing everything.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
How do you take that from the comment above?
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Not the person you’re responding to, but “most likely, we already need to do a lot of optimization work in early access that we didn’t necessarily want to do at that point” indicates to me that optimization was not a top priority. It’s not unusual for people to optimize after a proof of concept or something, but I imagine in gaming (I don’t do game dev admittedly) you don’t want that too late in the process. If they’re not planning on having it in early access, then their early consistent user base will be more worried about other things. If min spec is 8 then people with 4 won’t get it or won’t complain about poor performance because technically it’s their machine that’s the issue. Lack of complaints about that and feedback about other things further shifts the priority away from optimization. Plus, anyone who’s worked in dev spaces or probably any kind of deliverable knows that there are things that just don’t happen despite your best intentions. Things like optimization are the first to go in the dev space, so by openly admitting to putting it off, it does feel like an admission of “we were probably just not going to get around to it”. In my experience, the further out you plan to optimize, the more man hours you end up wasting, so I don’t see a company investing heavily in that at any point, but doing so post early launch seems wasteful if they legitimately cared about it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Tried that yesterday, 2.6 GB for just that one tab playing a twitch stream. That’s honestly impressive.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Keeping it positive, nice.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the world of AI vibe coding, I don’t think so, they will push people even more towards web apps I think
relativestranger@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
that would require the software companies to actually spend money on competent developers instead of tossing peanuts at prompt writers.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Or more realistically be used as an excuse for always online cloud based services a la office 365. “We would let you download the app, but most users don’t have the computing power so instead we’ll just make this a helpful subscription!”
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Idk, trying to load up a couple spreadsheets in Edge is going to consume 8gb of Ram in no time.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
“Oh don’t worry, you won’t have to actually load spreadsheets anymore, just give our AI full access to your files and it will do whatever you ask :)”
Ideally, you’re correct though and companies start investing in optimization. I don’t see it going that way, but a girl can dream.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Oh fucking hell…
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That would still pressure the browser teams to work on memory optimizations.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Honestly, it’ll be more efficient to have memory in a datacenter in that hardware in a datacenter will see higher average capacity utilization, but it’s gonna drive up datacenter prices too.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs with having remote compute.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But imagine the latency and network bandwidth issues, there’s a reason most companies moved away from the huge central framework model to distributed computing
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
As a dirty commie, I agree, but unfortunately under capitalism it is just an avenue for exploitation. Large companies are deciding what we can or cannot have access to and setting the price for it in a manner completely divorced from what they’re offering.