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FRIDAYTON MK II: 5.5 million bears and salmon create unholy allliance to sack SONY HQ
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metalslimer
Member
The ps3/360 had such little ram for the os to begin with though
Also can we get a rumor on this thread or at least an indication this is based on supposed leaked info
Vestal
Junior Member
I'm not a tech guy but: Can they even reserve more for the OS overnight? Considering some developers maybe have already designed with 7Gb in mind, and two: does it even matter? How many PC intensive games use more than 5Gb? I suppose it's easier to not optimize code with more memory in mind but if this makes the OS run smoother and have more features then I'd have absolutely no problem with it.
BlazingDarkness
Member
3.5 GB RAM for the OS?
The fuck?
The fuck?
Wait what does one do different? Hdmi input won't use anything at all, and we haven't seen everything on ps4 yet.
Share button and the touchpad thingy
Brb, going to check B3D. While I'm there, I'll also ask Reiko what he thinks.
Ricerocket
Member
Gotta wait for Sony's statement which they said they would wait on before posting. If it's true, it's pretty big fail to me to have that much of GDDR5 on a FreeBSD OS considering they went up to 8GB on dev feedback.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Just to be clear: Are we going back to "it's enough"?
The function to record and upload video was present. That upload wasn't 15 minutes long, they weren't multi-tasking with another program or two running in the background (for instant switch) and like you you said...it was a devkit, not final hardware. Devkits tend to have more RAM.
Policies, features, etc...they change. Obviously, if you have 4GB of RAM you don't plan to take up 3.5GB. If you upgrade that, you can then change how much your OS/multitasking takes up.
It's incredibly simple. Saying this means they were "only leaving .5GB" so it's false...is ridiculous.
It may be false, but the .5 thing is silly.
PhoenixDawn
Member
After how bad the PS3 OS was originally (and even still it chugs along at spots in-game), I can't say I'm surprised Sony is taking a more cautious approach by reserving a large amount of RAM to ensure they have more than enough to get all of the stuff running that they want to. In a way I think it's also a reactionary move to some of the OS features/apps that MS showed that Sony is considering adding as well so the extra reserved RAM is being held as a precaution in case they manage to get more apps/OS features working. Probably the biggest, IMO, is adding the 'instant snapping' between apps/games/etc that the XBone showed off.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The news was from years ago. I don't have a link but the OS footprint was absolutely reduced. I think both next gen plaforms are playing it safe. I don't see this as bad news. I never thought the 3GB OS on Xbone was bad when you consider what's being used for something like PS3/360 and even Vita.
As was noted in an earlier post, snappier OS and enough memory for devs to work with in the early days. You can bet this will improve across the board as time goes on. I'm still not sure about the number though. I can't get a hold of anyone I usually talk to about these things.
You'd need two memory controllers for that.
gaming_noob
Member
Wooo! Time to celebrate!
...right? Whatever, the GPU is still a lot stronger than the competition.
...right? Whatever, the GPU is still a lot stronger than the competition.
Samurai_Heart
Member
So this is what peeps were going crazy for in the last thread?
FullMetalx117
Member
The sad part is that the PS4 OS looks like garbage. What a waste...
At least Microsoft's OS is putting that memory to good use.
At least Microsoft's OS is putting that memory to good use.
Hari Seldon
Member
Who gives a fuck how good the OS is? Jesus christ with 3.5 Gigs of RAM reserved for the OS I should be able to alt tab out of a game, open Chrome wiht approximately 200 tabs, have skype call where I'm hosting 5 people, AND be rocking linux in VM. I'm betting this console OS won't be able to do that, so why the fuck does it need 3.5 gigs of RAM?
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
Ok, maybe im over reacting here but considering how much more stuff the xbox does and it uses is similar amount of memory Sony is either off their rocker here or seriously has made an awful OS...
I am the worried
I am the worried
Neuromancer
Member
Question: since this is an emergency can someone at Sony go out and buy more rams and put them in the machines? Or is it too late?
I think it's a great move from Sony to match the amount of RAM used for the OS. Having the system memory limited on the PS3 really constrained what it's OS could do (ex: no party/cross-game chat), leaving it miles behind what the XBox 360 delivered.
And, since the PS4's memory is so much faster, it'll still be able to deliver superior quality on games.
Win-win.
And, since the PS4's memory is so much faster, it'll still be able to deliver superior quality on games.
Win-win.
It's puzzling how so many people in this thread cannot understand this.
Lagspike_exe
Member
You do know that PS4 was designed around 4GBs of RAM, right?
Anyway, this rumour doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless they want to do something really major with the OS.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
If true this is pretty big news, not cancel my preorder news but still pretty big.
And what about the first party and exclusive games?
He only does MS news I heard
Dem ads on metro are a good use?.
I wonder what rigby has to say about this. He's been the one behind the idea that they'd be using an ARM chip with the possibilitiy of additional ram to handle a lot of the background stuff that could possibly eat into the system ram and would serve as a low power solution to meet energy requirements.
the area you put the garbage in, needs to be big, like a landfill?
OldAsUrSock
Banned
It is not true. When the PS4 had 4GB that means only 512MB was left for games. There is no way this is true. If you believe the early Killzone: Shadow Fall footage was 512MB? You would have to be crazy.
Weren't those around from the very beginning? It's not like those things just came around in the last month or so.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Well MS just cleared out Neweggs inventory, so they might have ran out of options.
And here come the MS trolls again... I think Sony is simply being cautious until they finalize OS details. They haven't really worked with these kind of requirements before, and are simply telling developers to keep things under a certain amount until they figure out details.
Streaming video, recording on the fly... these things take resources. I'm starting to identify the MS shills though. It's easy when the same JM's come in and talk about PS4 being doomed and all...
Streaming video, recording on the fly... these things take resources. I'm starting to identify the MS shills though. It's easy when the same JM's come in and talk about PS4 being doomed and all...
iNvid02
Member
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