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minus-squareanamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up58arrow-down1·16 hours agoLutris is impressive when it comes to game launchers and RAM efficiency, especially when compared to the ones using Electron.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·15 hours agoKinda depressing what numbers are considered impressive these days.
minus-squareSuperSpruce@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoNobody’s mentioning the system monitor taking 227MiB?
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 hours agoJesus Christ, Steam at 1.4 GB and you are expected to run that WHILE PLAYING GAMES? That made my eyes pop outta my head.
minus-squarewebhead@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours agoThere’s no way that’s normal. I’m pretty sure mine only uses a couple hundred.
minus-squarePumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·13 hours agoFor real, I remember when an entire game being over a 20 MiB made me hesitate to download it because it’d take a while.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoThe Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-211 hours agoThis is why I always run my personal projects through !(upx)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX]
minus-squareanamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·15 hours agoWho knows, maybe this dram scarcity will cause a change of heart and make people optimise more again. :)
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·13 hours agoThe bubble will pop before that
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoI remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days… “so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM”.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoMine too. war stories of 16k of RAM and 20MB hard disk drives the size of washing machines.
Lutris is impressive when it comes to game launchers and RAM efficiency, especially when compared to the ones using Electron.
Kinda depressing what numbers are considered impressive these days.
Nobody’s mentioning the system monitor taking 227MiB?
Jesus Christ, Steam at 1.4 GB and you are expected to run that WHILE PLAYING GAMES? That made my eyes pop outta my head.
There’s no way that’s normal. I’m pretty sure mine only uses a couple hundred.
For real, I remember when an entire game being over a 20 MiB made me hesitate to download it because it’d take a while.
The Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!
This is why I always run my personal projects through !(upx)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX]
Who knows, maybe this dram scarcity will cause a change of heart and make people optimise more again. :)
The bubble will pop before that
I remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days… “so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM”.
Mine too. war stories of 16k of RAM and 20MB hard disk drives the size of washing machines.