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I simply don't understand how Sony studios extract the visuals they achieve in their games from old hardware. It feels like tech sorcery.

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[-] norske@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I not a dev or anything. But my understanding is that it all comes down to leveraging all the capabilities of 1 single hardware configuration. You can tune and optimize your code to extract every bit of performance out of the consoles hardware because the hardware (and software too I guess) doesn’t change. PC games are much MUCH harder to optimize. Users can have a near limitless variety of hardware, driver, and OS combinations that prevent such a high level of optimization.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

I think this is the main bit of it. Just look at the Baldur’s Gate drama on the Xbox because there are two configurations and one of them is less capable.

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