How do video game loading screens work?

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What happens in the system as it loads the next area of a game?

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Generally, what’s happening the game is reading from the drive and pulling out data, storing it in both system memory and video memory so that it can be used much more quickly. Streaming the data off of the drive is possible, but it’s much slower. That might still sometimes happen, but loading screens let the game pre-position a chunk of its data.

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