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A visual representation of how the patent describes splitting a game map into various segments and pre-loading all adjacent areas players move to different places on the map.
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Sony's New Patent for PS5 Could Eliminate Loading Screens Altogether
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wat? you compare a solid state memory in mainstream phones to what cerny achieved in PS5?
Yes - if they grant this patent then they really are quite stupid.
this isn't as simple as a plain SSD. We are talking about the latest in NVMe SSD tech + much faster and more abundant RAM you'd find in a phone.
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Bringing the fastest SSD in the world available with PS5 by a good margin!
I can cook meatball spaghetti meal while waiting for a digital PS3 game to install
Its not quite the same, but a continuation of such technology. This is related to hardware layer and inline with how they are streaming so fast in that Spider-Man demo.
That article is vaguely describing what they saw in the (already granted) patent, but only share the one image and don't attempt to dive deeper into the patent itself.
Here, knock yourself out:
This patent seems to have bits from 2002 and 2012.
This sounds a lot like what Soul Reaver did in 1999. I remember this being a huge selling point of Soul Reaver and it was super impressive playing a game like that on the PS1.
Definitely up for any technological advancements in terms of loading screens!
Definitely up for any technological advancements in terms of loading screens!
I assumed this was what nearly every game used.
Pre load around the map area
Pre load around the fov
Etc
Pre load around the map area
Pre load around the fov
Etc
Also my thoughts on the matter. How the fuck did this patent get approved?
Yeah someone with a technical background is going to need to deep dive here because at face value "Breaking the game up into chunks that load in and out of memory as you move around so it's seamless" is describing ~20 year old technology that has been really refined in the last 10 with open world games. A lot of games already don't have load screens beyond initial boot unless you fast travel.
SSDs on PC don't eliminate load times either. Nintendo Switch runs entirely off carts and solid state, yet still has load times.
Next generation consoles will have even more RAM than phones or the Switch, which means more data to have to load up.
Copying Microsoft again.
They'll eliminate loading screens but it will still take 4 hours to copy your download files so you can install updates.
They'll eliminate loading screens but it will still take 4 hours to copy your download files so you can install updates.
Put this in the OP or something pls , people clearly aren't actually understanding this
PCs don't have PCIe 4.0 NVMe yet + games being built around this kind of tech. Not all games will probably completely eliminate loading next gen but you'll be surprised by how much of a difference there is going to be and how many games will be instant.
Yeah, I don't get how this is any different than say......World of Warcraft, which had a fairly huge world with the only load times being between continents.
In the digram above, data from Zone X is loaded around and near the player. Okay.....so what happens when the player choses to Fast-Travel to Zone W? The bigger the world the harder it is to eliminate loads, because people will inevitably want to zoom around the map once given the capability.
But the thread title says 'Sony's New Patent for PS5...' right? Is it a new parent? Or is just a continuation of something they already patented in the PS2 era? I'm not a lawyer!
You don't know what Cerny achieve in PS5. PS4 was supposed to have the games fully playable five minutes into the installation process, and we all know how that went.
It seems to be bothe a renewal and continuation of the loading technology first filed in 2001, but with additions related to how much hardware can account for and the ways to avoid loading up until and including restricting player movement (crawing between cracks and such, ya know?)
How do you have any idea what Cerny "achieved" with the PS5? All you have is one article describing the intentions with the new hardware. You haven't seen official specs, or feedback for any hardware to make any claims what it will or won't do.
This was filed in 2012 so obviously not for PS5. It's a continuation of a turn of the century patent with PS2 in mind, The PS2's VU0 and VU1 Vector Units are even mentioned.
Itt, insecure people about their hardware if choice overreact without proper reading.
PS5 isn't just getting your traditional SSD btw.
PS5 isn't just getting your traditional SSD btw.
Actually we do have claims this will be the fastest storage system better than anything in the market.
I've been had! Guess it's all out there now. Loading screens are my knuckle popping "lets do this shit" moments I need before a game.