Comments on: Sony confirms our suspicions about OS memory footprint

By: forex robot

forex robot — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:23:54 +0000

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By: SonyJunkie

SonyJunkie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:26:16 +0000

@starspeed and anyone who says catching up to the 360. It really will not make a whole difference. They will be able to do some things. They seem to be fine with what they had, so they should honestly use the extra for in-game music, faster in-game, and things of that such.

By: StarSpeed

StarSpeed — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:50:50 +0000

Its good that they reduced the amount of memory used by the OS because now games can have more memory to use. Sony decrease of OS memory usage make it on par with Microsoft Xbox 360 memory usage.

By: coolsalajr

coolsalajr — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:43:18 +0000

catching up on 360

By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:04:10 +0000

Exactly.

By: Moocows111111

Moocows111111 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:55:48 +0000

@Patrick Steen Oh I see now, with this upgrade, the game developers would have more RAM to use to operate their games?

By: scottspeed

scottspeed — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:13:45 +0000

anything giving the developers more freedom is a good thing. wonder whether they can reduce it further?

By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:51:32 +0000

@Dreamer_Lion – I’ve explained quite a bit of this in my previous article – but Sony has been able to reduce the OS’s memory footprint exactly because of extra XMB features. They set the memory high, as they weren’t sure what they would need it for, now they know, so have assigned memory (whilst optimising) and can cut it back and give it back to developers.

@taus90 – This has little to do with Arc – the memory footprint has been reduced since day one. Why this has come up now, is beyond me.

@Dr. Moogle – It makes a world of difference. Developers fight for 5mb of RAM with optimisation, so 70MB is huge – but it didn’t come all at once!

@Dkenair @Moocows111111 – The hardware has not changed, it’s the same amount of memory – but around 100mb used to be cut off from developers (used to run the system’s operating system…XMB) so now much of this memory has been given back =)

By: Dr. Moogle

Dr. Moogle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:57:09 +0000

@taus90: good point!

but really tho, im not too savvy with this stuff…but how much more can you put in with taht extra 70mb of ram?

By: taus90

taus90 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:55:56 +0000

maybe they want to reduce footprint, so that when Arc arrives it should not be a burden on the ram.