• katy ✨
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    01 year ago

    my tandy sensation didn’t need more than 4mb of ram

  • teft
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    01 year ago

    Just like the human eye can only register 60fps and no more, your computer can only register 4gb of RAM and no more. Anything more than that is just marketing.

    • @TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      This is only true if you’re still using a 32 bit cpu, which almost nobody is. 64 bit cpus can use up to 16 million TB of RAM.

      • Sibbo
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        01 year ago

        With PAE, a 32 bit CPU can also use more, but each process is still limited to 4GiB

    • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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      01 year ago

      Jokes on you, because i looked into this once. I don’t know the exact ms the light-sensitive rods in human eyes need to refresh the chemical anymore but it resulted in about 70 fps, so about 13 ms i guess (the color-sensitive cones are far slower). But psycho-optical effects can drive that number up to 100 fps in LCD displays. Though it looks like you can train yourself with certain computer tasks to follow movements with your eye, being far more sensible to flickering.

      • @SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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        According to this study, the eye can see a difference as high as 500 fps. While this is a specific scenario, it’s a scenario that could possibly happen in a video game, so I guess it means we can go to around 500 hz monitors before it becomes too much or unnessessary.

      • @iopq@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        It’s not about training, eye tracking is just that much more sensitive to pixels jumping

        You can immediately see choppy movement when you look around in a 1st person view game. Or if it’s an RTS you can see the trail behind your mouse anyway

        I can see this choppiness at 280 FPS. The only way to get rid of it is to turn on strobing, but that comes with double images at certain parts of the screen

        Just give me a 480 FPS OLED with black frame insertion already, FFS

        • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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          01 year ago

          Well, i do not follow movements (jump to the target) with my eyes and see no difference between 30 and 60 FPS, run comfortably Ark Survival on my iGPU at 20 FPS. And i’m still pretty good in shooters.

          Yeah, it’s bad that our current tech stack doesn’t allow to just change image where change happens.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        01 year ago

        Does that refresh take place across the entire eye simultaneously or is each rod and/or cone doing its own thing?

        • teft
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          Are your eyeballs progressive scan or interlaced, son?

    • Pennomi
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      01 year ago

      That’s not sarcasm, it’s misinformation. Not surprising that people downvoted you even though it was just a joke.

      • @starman@programming.dev
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        I don’t think that somebody actually read that computers can’t register more then 4GiB of RAM and then thought

        That’s totally true, because u/teft said it is

        • Pennomi
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          01 year ago

          It certainly used to be true, in the era of 32 bit computers.

  • @penquin@lemm.ee
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    01 year ago

    That’s why I have 16GB on my main pc. The highest I’ve ever seen it was 8GB while playing Alan wake 2

  • @HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    You’ve clearly never lived with a cat. Your metaphor is crushed by the Kitty Expansion Theory: No piece of furniture is large enough for a cat and any other additional being.

    • @kaboom36@ani.social
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      01 year ago

      The kitty expansion theory is incomplete, any piece of furniture is large enough for both a cat and an additional being provided the additional being was there first

    • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      My cat would just extend perpendicular to the length of my bed so i have enough space to decide to sit on one of the two remaining sides of the bed.

    • ArtieShaw
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      01 year ago

      Exactly. That kitty encompasses and rules over aaaalllll that couch. Surfaces and interior volume (as soon as he discovers it). No room for anybody else. Just ask him.

    • @huginn@feddit.it
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      01 year ago

      Work gave me a 16gb laptop for Android development.

      It took up to 20 minutes to incrementally compile.

      They eventually bumped me up to 32gb when I complained enough that my swap file was 20gb.

      Suddenly incremental compiles are <2 min

  • KevinM
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    01 year ago

    I was running out of RAM on my 16GB system for years (just doing normal work tasks), so I finally upgraded to a new laptop with 64GB of RAM. Now I never run out of memory.