I don’t know why they’d think I’d capture 600MB/s of uncompressed video though.

Since the torrent sites are crammed with full quality 4k Bluray remuxes and WebDLs direct from Amazon, there’s clearly easier and better ways of doing this than putting encryption in a cable.

This is why motion smoothing is turned on by default on most 4K TVs. It’s the only way most people can see any difference.

This was a thing for a bit in the Xbox 360 era, but disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Wasn’t there some Nvidia thing that also tried to do this on PC?

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_3D_Vision

Allowed it with any DirectX game apparently.

Unless there was an exploit in the browser itself, you’re probably fine.

Windows being randomly slow is just standard Windows behaviour. When you look in task manager, there’s like 200 things it just runs all the time.

Back in the day I’d run Malwarebytes free checker. It doesn’t run all the time, it’s a one time scan.

Lack of NSA funding to run their man in the middle platform that everyone likes.

And there’ll still be too many damn streaming services.

At least for the next three years until Grand Inquisitor Farage starts signing anything that lines his pockets.

White kids for white nonces!

Yeah, PS5 games are made with the assumption that they’ll have access to a 5GB/s drive. It makes sense that they might actually benefit from that. I saw a test of Ratchet and Clank running on a HDD and the main difference was the portals that mask the load times were comically long.

And it’s true the difference in price isn’t that great any more. Personally I’ve got an older SATA in my PC and a NVME. I try to install to the faster drive where I can, but since my PC actually has a worse CPU than my Legion Go S, I’m not likely to see a lot of benefit from it. I suppose you’ve got a better chance of picking up a used SATA drive on the cheap if you really need to save money.

I know they are. For something like database work, they’re amazing. Now go an look at some game load time benchmarks.

Because I can guarantee you they’re nowhere near that much faster for 99% of games. Once you get off spinning rust, CPU speed remains the number one factor in load times. Because nearly everything is compressed and has to be unpacked and processed into the right formats by the system before it can be used.

Picking whatever comes up at the top from googling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeS88O4rWB8

Just scanning though that video I can see the biggest difference is like a second.

DirectStorage was supposed to be able to make game loading faster on faster SSDs, but as far as I can see that hasn’t really happened. The PS5 does actually get noticeably slower if you cobble a slower drive into it, although not really enough to break anything. The decompression units in that hardware are actually pretty good, and can keep up with the faster SSDs.

A 2TB Drive is just over £100, even with the crazy memory prices lately. I’ve got one in my PS5 ffs. A bog standard SATA drive will do practically the same load times as NVME. It’s all about the access time.

Devs should abandon HDD completely. Look how much space they saved here by not wasting it on duplicated resources.

If you’re still using HDD for games in 2025 then what the fuck are you even playing at?

Even the consoles abandoned that.

You should see it on Android where not only does every version move everything around, but every manufacturer seems to re-implement the entire settings screen as well.

That would be scalpees.

Yeah, seems powerful enough for anything pre-HDMI at least. If it’s newer than that, I probably still have the actual hardware plugged in…

I got around that by being a bad pirate. If I’ve watched it, chances are I’m nuking it in a few days from my download drive to make room for something else.

I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?

Well it requires a verified source for the data. I don’t see why it excludes open source at all.

So are closed source developers.

While singing “I want to break free” at full blast.