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bitwolf ,

Games really need a solution similar to Android.

Have a lower res screen? Only need to download 1080p assets and textures.

Have a 4k screen? Good luck to your SSD.

MangoPenguin ,
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An SSD upgrade to 2TB or something would cost less than the game does these days. Or if they’re on an extreme budget they can probably find a basic 500GB or 1TB SSD for $10-15 used somewhere.

account_93 ,

Get an external SSD if you can’t open the laptop, Modern laptops will have a fast usb c port available (I use mine for VR).

They also talk about play ToTK on the laptop too…

“Will Tears of the Kingdom take up the space they otherwise would have occupied?”

I know you can emulate but this writer wtf

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    marco ,
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    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/75f70c2d-62f1-40ff-b8fc-b9f8cb25ccbf.webm

    Tathas ,

    Look at this guy trying to play 2 games.

    Shit, I know someone who had to purchase an extra SSD just to dedicate it to Call of Duty.

    stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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    They’re also playing the games on their laptop for some reason, which is certainly an interesting choice for two of the biggest games of the year.

    They might not actually have a choice about playing on a laptop if they normally play on a PS5. Baldur’s Gate isn’t out on PS5 yet and Starfield is Xbox/PC exclusive.

    sludge ,
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    like i usually hate the whole, “buy a 2tb ssd, its only like $60” line. like to a lot of people that isn’t something you can just drop casually for a video game (especially on top of the price of the game itself!) but I don’t really think thats the perspective this writer is coming from.

    Limeaide ,

    Same. Those comments are coming from a place of privilege.

    A lot of people in a first world country can’t afford splurges like that anymore. In third world countries it’s even worse. Because of import fees, scarcity, and price gauging, a $60 SSD can easily become $100+. In some countries that’s over half of the average monthly income

    8ace40 ,

    Yup. And with regional pricing, the discrepancy between a game’s price and hardware price is even greater.

    For example, BG3 is around 15 dollars in Argentina, but a 2TB SSD is around 130 dollars.

    Vordus ,

    Counterpoint: If not having room for a $70 game because there’s a $60 game already on there (which also isn’t normally a problem for him because his main gaming system is his $500 gaming console) is an issue, then the article is already being written from a position of privilege.

    RollForInitiative ,

    You still have until the 6th, better get off Lemmy and play ;D

    stagen ,
    @stagen@feddit.dk avatar

    Whom ever wrote this article is a massive idiot.

    z3n0x ,
    @z3n0x@feddit.de avatar

    Seems like the common vibe in “gaming” articles lately. Low hanging fruit Clickbait slathered in ads and autoplaying videos.

    deo ,

    Firefox has a setting to disable autoplaying of videos (default setting is to autoplay muted for some reason). It’s in Settings > Site Permissions > Autoplay.

    LoamImprovement ,

    Yeah, like I picked up an 8TB SSD for like $300 the other day to move shit off of three old platter drives, I still have room to spare. A 1TB is like $60, that’s less than the cost of the game.

    vagrantprodigy ,

    I just my kid a 2TB ssd for $60. 1TB can be found under $30 lately.

    Perfide ,

    A 1tb gen 3 nvme is only $35-40 💀

    cnnrduncan ,

    Maybe overseas, but round here 1tb ssds start at around $60-70 and you’ll be lucky to get a 2tb one for less than $150…

    Disgusted_Tadpole ,
    @Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml avatar

    My man is trying to install both games on a PlayStation One memory card

    Kolanaki ,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    Baldur’s Gate 3 is currently taking up all the storage space I would give to Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG.

    Damn dude. You only have ~200GB of storage space? Upgrade your HDD/SSD, for real. I don’t even review games for a living and I have 2.5TB. I can definitely fit both games. And then some.

    This artificial battle of the VASTLY DIFFERENT STYLE RPGs is fucking bizarre and just a made up issue to get clicks, I swear to Christ.

    Sina ,

    Starfield has ssd listed as “required”. Even if it runs from a HDD it might be horrible, like with No Man’s Sky.

    fushuan ,

    Eh, With games like these a 1TB M2 SSD is kinda required to have, I have one and I’m wanting to have two already tbh.

    Sina ,

    When it comes to cheap ssds M2 barely has an advantage over SATA, not in any practical sense anyway.

    Blackmist ,

    A 2TB SSD can be had for like £100. I even put one in my PS5.

    rich ,

    Less. I got a Crucial 2tb for £70 a couple of weeks ago. 5000mb/s too

    Edit: Samsung Evo 970 is actually £73 on Amazon right now for 2TB

    Blackmist ,

    Just got another Crucial one for the wife’s PC. Was like £95, but that is PCI-E 4.0 rather than the Evo 970’s PCI-E 3.0.

    Won’t make a jot of difference for what she does, but nice to have it in case gaming actually uses that extra speed in the future. I don’t even think most PS5 games make use of the extra speed right now. Certainly nothing that shows up in loading benchmarks, but I suspect when it does show itself it will be from single frame hitches where it’s loading things on the fly.

    PotjiePig ,

    Sounds like you need to finish BG3 before starting Starfield.

    HurlingDurling ,

    Content behind an anti-blocker wall. How much space does this game take?

    CraigeryTheKid ,

    PC is about 130 GB I believe.

    neoman4426 ,

    My preload is currently sitting at 117GB according to Windows's move programs list

    Fizz ,
    @Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

    Idc about the size of games because I just download them when I need. 1gigabit down gang.

    donuts ,
    @donuts@kbin.social avatar

    Honestly I'm much more worried about bullshit fucking Xfinity bandwidth caps than drive space.

    KaijuKoala ,

    No space? Lol, clearly you’ve never played ARK Survival Evolved

    BigBananaDealer ,
    @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

    isnt that only 400 something GB?

    WeLoveCastingSpellz ,
    @WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.fmhy.net avatar

    Baldurs gate 3 is the vetter game anyway soo… ¯_(ツ)_/¯ my personal plan is to jump on starfield much later when the bugs are fixed and the modding community is matured a little

    loops ,

    You dropped these:

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    MentalEdge ,
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    There was talk about making “steam deck optimized” versions of games that would ditch high resolution assets as they would be pointless on a 720p display. Nothing seems to have materialized.

    That said, there are reasons why games are taking more and more space. Game assets cannot be compressed the same way image files intended for humans can. They have to be stored losslessly, or there WILL be rendering artefacts. And a material or texture in a game is composed of a lot more layers than just an RGB image (normal maps, specular maps, material maps, depth maps). And modern game-engines can pre-bake a lot of things that otherwise would have to be rendered in real-time. That pre-baked render data has to be stored, preferably in high resolution to avoid aliasing, and shipped along with all the other game files.

    Games aren’t ballooning in size for no reason. Stuff like pre-baking essentially trades storage for the ability to get the same looks for less processing. More data layers in textures and materials allows rendering to take shortcuts in how the appearance of a surface is calculated, etc. etc. etc.

    But none of this would prevent the option to not download these resource files for ALL detail levels. If you’re not gonna run a game on ultra textures, you don’t need those files sitting on your drive.

    HidingCat ,

    Yea, some kind of custom install would be good. Can't be hard to program a dialogue before download that'll select the right assets to install, saving both disk space and bandwidth.

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