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PS1 afine texture warping on the right walls of the parking building on the center here.

That is indeed true if for instances of constant speed traversal, which are not entirely rare, but are also not the only times some games go through traversal stutter. Many moments of gameplay have characters slow down here and there (stoplights, obstacles, curvy roads, funneling terrain, enemy...

The idea is not to simply increase the LOD radius naively. But to keep the same simulation radius constant, but have a secondary, larger, preemptive loading/initialization radius that pro-actively loads and initializes game objects (in a frozen, invisible state until they hit the actual sim...

Wow, I had no idea this game could get that pretty...

The whole thing was pretty nice. They went through the early years, his start programming, formation of epic, unreal, some specific vintage tech sweeney himself developed, modern unreal, future unreal, code parallelism, fortnite metaverse, apple legal troubles, steam, epic games store clunk...

To the surprise of nobody

I dont think its childishness. Its just shameless near-sociopathic boundary testing. "its easier to say you are sorry than ask for permission" kind of mind-set. Its not like they dont know it can be contested nor that it can't go unoticed forever, but they think its worth a try. Unfortunately...

So that you can run the Dreamcast port of GTA3 on dolphin for steamdeck.

Kaze Emanuar who is a prolific Super Mario 64 modder who has been delving deep into low-level n64 optimization has recently made a video about how that system's MIPS cpu also had barely ever used functions to section off areas of its cache as a manually managed scratch-pad. So even in that...

I go to movies to escape the stresses of my everyday life. Not to relive them...

If you are into psychological horror that evokes true existencial dread, I recommend this one (disclaimer: graphic imagery)

I'm not into fighting games, so I cant comment on these sepecifics here, but if it is as you say, I agree this is a good example of a trend also see in modern games. Most modern games are indeed way more polished and "feature-complete" than older titles. You never feel like the game has missing...

Mesh shaders are a DX12 implementation of features that AMD first introduces under the name "Next-Gen-Geometry" years earlier. Different GPU's archs might have more or less comprehensive feature sets of what is now called mesh shaders, but most of it is in the PS5, despite them not using that...

GPT's speed is good enough for text chat. Natural human spoken language is way faster though.

Almost certainluly Screenspace used when available for refined lighting being downgraded to coarser SDF lumen representation when no suficient ss data is available.