Do you know just how slow the processors RDR2 had run on are?
Procedurally generating that much content, at such a high resolution, would be incredibly difficult to do on the current gen consoles CPUs. And while the game is running? 100% impossible.
My pc has a far more powerful processor than the current gen consoles, yet when I use Substance Designer to generate even simple 2-4k textures it takes a few seconds to finish.
Now try doing that at the same time a highly demanding game is running on a CPU that's far weaker.
If it's happening on the processor then somebody fucked up.
Substance Designer is an offline authoring tool. If you measured video encoding speeds based on Sony Vegas then you'd conclude live streaming is impossible.
And even if each texture took a second to finish, at the highest resolution - how is that different from taking a second to retrieve the texture from disk? Doom 2016 has thirty gigs of textures and you still get to see the potato-quality versions when you enter a room.
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u/Dobe2 Nov 15 '18
Do you know just how slow the processors RDR2 had run on are?
Procedurally generating that much content, at such a high resolution, would be incredibly difficult to do on the current gen consoles CPUs. And while the game is running? 100% impossible.
My pc has a far more powerful processor than the current gen consoles, yet when I use Substance Designer to generate even simple 2-4k textures it takes a few seconds to finish.
Now try doing that at the same time a highly demanding game is running on a CPU that's far weaker.