4th February 2003, 6:33 PM
Do any of you even know what volumetric lighting looks like? Would you really recognize it if the reviewers or box art didn't tell you it was there?
If any game ever loaded textures or models off a hard drive, it would probably chug at about 10 fps. A hard drive is the slowest piece of memory in a system and really has no use in graphics. They load the important, current info off the hard drive (or disc, either one) into RAM and build the screen in RAM. NEVER, EVER the hard drive.
The hard drive is just a glorified, mutant-sized memory card.
If any game ever loaded textures or models off a hard drive, it would probably chug at about 10 fps. A hard drive is the slowest piece of memory in a system and really has no use in graphics. They load the important, current info off the hard drive (or disc, either one) into RAM and build the screen in RAM. NEVER, EVER the hard drive.
The hard drive is just a glorified, mutant-sized memory card.