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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 48 points 3 months ago

Kinda depressing what numbers are considered impressive these days.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Jesus Christ, Steam at 1.4 GB and you are expected to run that WHILE PLAYING GAMES? That made my eyes pop outta my head.

[-] webhead@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

There's no way that's normal. I'm pretty sure mine only uses a couple hundred.

[-] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe they left it running for a while. The current Steam Client is basically an Electron App.
I miss the old Steam Client that was made entirely in Valve's own GUI Framework which was written in C++.

[-] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

Who knows, maybe this dram scarcity will cause a change of heart and make people optimise more again. :)

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago

The bubble will pop before that

[-] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Why would they? Ram hasn't been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.

Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren't loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

For real, I remember when an entire game being over a 20 MiB made me hesitate to download it because it'd take a while.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is why I always run my personal projects through upx

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days... "so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM".