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Anon boots up a game (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What pisses me off for the most part is that you first load the intro video, then you skip that and is just taken to a static screen where you click/press enter to continue, then it has to login so you wait again.

Why can't the game logon while the videos are playing?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Multithreading will be covered in Game Development 201.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the unskippable videos are hiding the loading portions of the initial game.

[–] Doxin@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For sure not true for a lot of games. Surely all the videos before the main menu isn't it loading the main menu? How much processing power could a menu possibly take.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I think there are absolutely games that need the loading time

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Source engine games still don't load until after the bald man Valve intro is done playing. It's been like 25 years.