When are there going to be MANDATORY OPTIMIZATION courses for developers ?
Starcraft remastered
Juan Reyes
Brayden Smith
Just came from a Data Structures and Memory Management class. Was encouraged to forget about optimization as long as it just works.
Hudson Ward
As soon as pointlessly expensive graphics card companies stop paying them to do this shit.
James Perry
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Robert Long
LOOK AT THIS SHIT
Operating System: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0
Processor: Intel Pentium 90 MHz
Memory: 16 MB RAM
Graphics Card: VGA graphics with 256-colors capability or higher
Sound Card: Sound Blaster compatible sound card
Hard Drive Space: 80 MB
CD/DVD Drive: 4X CD-ROM
Controls: Keyboard & Mouse
Multiplayer: 14.4 kbs modem for 2-player mode
Null Modem Cable for 2-8 player mode
IPX network or Battle.net (requires Internet connection)
Other: Requires original Starcraft game to be installed
These are the original requirements. Fucking 16 MBs of ram. Granted you wanted more but even at 128 MBs of ram, it's still around 40 times lighter on your rig.
What are they even doing at blizzard ?
Half the lecturers in those classes can barely code and just get shit from textbooks.
Yet that alone is no explanation why they never insist on optimization. Who the fuck is going to bother with bloated software ?
Adrian Wilson
"If all software is bloated then none of it is"
-Hipster with a Macbook
Isaac Gonzalez
Christ I nearly just shit myself stifling a laugh. The lecturer is from New Jersey and imagining him going full Joisey during a class like that is side splitting.
Apparently that's all you need. he was probably on the line instead of coding it
Nathan Robinson
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Ryder Stewart
But when you look at how a 21 year old game requires a 12 year old graphic card it still doesn't feel right.
Mason Peterson
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