Waiting (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, July 05, 2017, 08:27 (2708 days ago) @ electricpirate

Why does the old version start twice as fast as the new version?

Not every hardware component has advanced at the same rate over the last twenty years. We have exponentially more memory for storing things like textures, models, and sound files, but the speed at which we can load those assets into said memory has not increased at the same rate.

TBF, modern SSD/Hybrid Drives are exponentially faster than the old janky CDROM in the PSX.

I believe the CD drive was 2x (2 Megabits / sec) with a 200ms seek time.