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1. Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 10:28:32 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

   if you make a game based around building things using a large catalogue of stuff, and you add custom content support for modding, for feck's sake please parallelise the content loader so it can utilise multiple cores and parallel SSD reads.

   there's always going to be a group of players that loads up gigabytes and gigabytes of mod content, and you're relegating them to watching the loading screen tick along for 30 minutes while you process thousands of content packs sequentially.

   • Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live (lunafoxgirlvt@vt.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 10:28:31 JST Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live

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     @gsuberland kind of depends on what API the game uses, older OpenGL and DirectX are not threadsafe so you have to upload stuff on the main thread sequentially to the GPU.

     Otherwise you crash your game

   • Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live (lunafoxgirlvt@vt.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 11:02:39 JST Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live

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     @gsuberland ah I thought you meant the asset uploading stage, you’re referring to the pre-processing before load?

   • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 11:02:40 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     • Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live

     @LunaFoxgirlVT if they're uploading 30GB of custom content to the GPU on a laptop I'd be amazed