Post B1AMNg9TpUXFFsKdPs by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
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 (DIR) Post #B1ALoR3DyyF6HjbHoO by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
       2025-12-12T07:56:38.649770Z
       
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       @cliffle @regehr that's just how that game's tone is set, it's just a character.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1AMNcEeOKIJ6kihv6 by regehr@mastodon.social
       2025-12-11T23:40:20Z
       
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       Helldivers 2 devs:"By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%)."😆 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371
       
 (DIR) Post #B1AMNdvE7VwgL5eDvE by andrewrk@mastodon.social
       2025-12-12T05:46:45Z
       
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       @regehr 🤨
       
 (DIR) Post #B1AMNfBZQEc4G4In2G by floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-12-12T07:45:01Z
       
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       @andrewrk @regehr I remember from the original Xbox documentation that they recommended to duplicate data when it can help avoiding a disc seek. But that was for a CD-ROM drive where seek times are measured in hundreds of milliseconds, and the CD-ROM size put an upper limit to the duplication.I wonder if that general idea still floats around as a cargo-culted meme.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1AMNg9TpUXFFsKdPs by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
       2025-12-12T08:02:56.747371Z
       
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       @floooh @andrewrk @regehr the blog talks about that a little bit, according to it, the load time stats measured between ssd user and hdd user can be 5x worse on some games without using duplication.however for their game in particular they measured that level generation was the bottleneck, duplication doesn't help bring load times down so they got rid of it.