I dont understand that some PC games like Witcher 3 or Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice have awesome graphics and don’t too much pain for PCs but some old or meh graphics games make PC sounds like a plane and drops FPS (heating etc.). Everybody says because that games optimized very well but how and why all game devs do that? Can you guys help me?
Ps: I am not native so sorry for my English.
Thanks
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Game programs are made up of lines of code that, when compiled, get broken down to a language the computer understands. Being a non-English speaker this is the same as something being translated to your native language; simpler sentences are translated faster. So the same goes for PC games.
Code, graphics, and game optimization means less lines are used to do the same things so there is less to read, code is stored in memory sequentially so the computer has to “seek” for it less, and game data is stored on the HDD in similar sectors so the read arm has to move less.
Things like Solid State Drives eliminate the need for a seek arm on HDDs which means you have to optimize less for it to work the same.
So if a game is written with a lot of code, or data is stored all over, or video memory is “streamed” into the GPU instead of stored can all increase load times and hardware work loads.
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