The pinnacle of modern game optimization has got to go to doom eternal that game put doom 2016 and all other modern games that rely on bloated file sizes to shaaaaaaaame

Most companies' idea of "optimization" is to just raise the system requirements. I've always joked that if a Windows programmer today was asked to write an exact copy of Space Invaders, it would require a 2.4Gh i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, a graphics card supporting pixel shaders 3.0, DirectX 11, and a minimum of 20GB of hard drive space.

"Our game is running just fine, maybe it's time to upgrade." Todd Howard: To PC gamers with i9's and 4090ti

- As a game dev obsessed with optimization (and kinda having it as the only responsibility at my workplace) i'm indescribably upset with the current technical state of modern games. Back in the days with limited hardware specs as well as harsh development reality people had to put their best to simply make the game playable. I've been excited about it ever since i saw it working as a kid. Nowadays the games are slapped with the most generalized optimization techniques that are not even polished to fit into the game well enough, lol. - Today, with so many high-level languages with large overhead, game engines aimed at designers who are freaked out by just thinking of using their keyboard and not their mouse, the industry falling to its lowest and becoming yet another business area, the publishers ridiculous tendency to develop a lot of generic over casualed games in a foolish desire to conquer new users and overall shitty educational quality the games are ended up having so much overhead and technical debt that you could easily fit 2 or even 3 old games in there, both memory and performance wise. - I have always been thriving into the industry for this and i remained committed to the optimization all along. I am treating it like an art, which it really is. It's a shame seeing the industry being bloated with people so far away from understanding how games are working that the betelgeuse appears to be at the arm's reach, but this is the reality. Less competition as well, which oh man do i abuse. - Thanks for making the effort to read, whoever you are. Much appreciated :D

Imagine if hardware was developed just like modern games: “- Whoa! It POSTs! - Ship it! - But there’s issues and clock is unstable. - We will fix it via driver updates!”

At blizzcon many years ago, Blizzard told a story, they created a new city for world of warcraft, called Dalaran, however they discovered that rendering this city was ridiculously slow. On further investigation they discovered the problem was a toy shop, it had a model of the city as one of the toys. To save time the programmer had merely referenced the normal city model, scaled it down and rendered it. This led to a huge problem, if you looked at the toy store, the game would resize the city and render it as a model, this of course included the toy shop and the model city, which caused it to again resize the city effectively causing infinite recursion.

I can't wait until the Silicon Limit is reached and we finally start actually optimising more rather than demanding more and more RAM, higher and higher clock speeds, and yet more storage. Don't get me wrong, there are issues with over-optimisation or pre-optimisation from a maintenance standpoint, but *some* optimisation would be nice.

For those who learned OpenGL you need to extends object to the same class so when you apply a shader just do it for all object at once by creating a override func (common problem)

Dude you're gonna blow up. Don't stop the quality content

I think graphics card companies also have something to do with games not being optimized as to sell stronger GPUS so people can run a terribly optimized game

There is a very important thing that is often forgotten about big O notation: it ignores constants and those constants might be huge. And that matters a lot if your code doesn't work on big dataset.

Simply, quality content , straight to point , and engaging , luckly i was already subscribed to this channel

This video was super cool. Why is this channel so underrated. Hope it blows up! The demonstration about "what if light was slow" was also amazing

You deserve much more subs and views! Amazing video!!

Nintendo is great with compression techniques it’s crazy. They truely are the best at making compressed video game file formats.

Wrong title, it should have been: The LOST Art of Game Optimization

WOW! Thats a highly concentrated quality video. So much to meaningful content in so little time.

Thanks, this was a pretty cool rundown.

Quality content right here! Thank you for sharing this!

Ksp2 devs: Let's make a ridiculously accurate rocket building game! And the map is the whole Solar System, just for good measure! Also Ksp2 devs: Recommended for 1080p60 are rtx 3080

Very awesome video. Such an accessible introduction to optimization

Hey! What's the tool you are using at 3:50? This seems way better than having to boot up photoshop every time I want to use smoothness textures (damn Unity smoothness on Albedo Alpha :v) Great video!

This was surprisingly interesting… Thank you!

Asphalt 8/9 is crazy optimized if you’ve ever played it. Glorious graphics, solid 60 fps all the time even on pretty old computers and mobiles, very responsive.

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I would credit every single japaneese video game developer in this department. They release some of the most optimised games ever. Special shoutout to metal gear solid V. I played that game on 2 gb ram.

This is underrated. Great video, sir!

I give it a like just for the effort that you put in the video

This video basically explained why I'll never learn programming. The numbers immediately made my head hurt.

I'm a little of a conspiracy guy, and I would say the big hardware players have some kind of deal with the AAA companies to not optimize their games, because of the overreliance on DLSS and FSR, and because no one in the entire planet can tell me Starfield is optimized and Todd Howard response to that is "it's optimized, go and upgrade your PC lol". C'mon, it's really sus.

What a great work dude!

"Optimisation is easy just use the 20 new unrealengine5 meme effects that require a 4090 to run!" This video is why modern videogames are the way they are lmao

To give some feedback: I think the "Code" section was a bit too fast especially you explaining what we are actually trying to accomplish. I didn't get it before rewatching that part a few times

Fascinating video!

I just about cried when I saw you put the subdivision modifier on the door handle. I think I felt genuine pain.

Im not really from a rich place or still have money as a student so my pc is kinda meh...and i admire this a lot...as a programmer myself i really dove deep into this lately I just cant play a game slower than 40-50 fps ...or with drops

Good video, man! CFBR

A youtube video once said the reason DX12 is so “bad” is because the burden of optimisation is now on the game devs, who don’t have much experience with drivers..

Raytracing can be more efficient than the typical rasterization when dealing with a huge quantity of triangles.

very infomative video. some part of the videos are really hard to hear due to the heavy accent, the autogenerated sub can only do so much.

Thanks man I loved it

There's mid 2000s game thst looks and plays amazing on what we today consider low end hardware

The big O notation describes the growth of a function, not the actual execution speed. For example, hash maps have a lookup time complexity of O(1), whereas linear arrays have a lookup time complexity of O(n). However, if the hashing function is slow, array lookups will most likely outperform map lookups for lower values of n. O(10000) = O(1) is slower than O(1n) for n < 10000. That is to say, it would be incorrect to state that the big O notation accurately represents the real-world performance of an algorithm outside of big data. The correct way to locate slow functions is by profiling.

I jokingly made the reference that AAA studio leads just say "Our game isn't unoptimised, just buy a 4090" behind the scenes. And then Todd Fuckwad said it in an actual interview. Fuck everything that guy stands for. And then he dares get dissapointment at the game awards every time it didn't win. Dude thinks the sun is shining out of his ass

Thought it was the subdivision that broke shit but 3 MILLION?!!? HOW DO YOU DO THAT BY ACCIDENT

Cyberpunk runs on the steamdeck... but people want to tell me it is impossible to run it on the ps4 with addon and 2.0 update? NO WAY... This game was a crime

Game devs have it easy with ample RAM and CPU and they still fuck it up. Try embedded development where resources are extremely limited and crashes can potentially cause catastrophic failures.

Comment for the algorithm, awesome content!

The number one thing that works for optimization is Frame Generation. Anybody can now do it with any game any graphics card with a program on Steam called Lossless Scaling. That's what happens when AMD makes FSR frame gen open source

Someone needs to send this to the team working on ready or not 😂

Really good video dude! Noice

Nowadays games: - 98gbs for just a fighting game (yes Tekken, I am talking about you); - DirectX12 that freaks up the graphics for actually strong chips but old graphic cards (like GTX 970), making then running slow or creating really annoying visual arctifacts due to low resolution applied (another example of that is that Tekken 5 looks way prettier than Tekken 8 in low quality. Also SF6 doesn't need DirectX12, it could have DirectX11 and Vulkan for performance versions too). Seems like the industry only cares about Path Tracing in real time render.

Meanwhile "Alan Wake II" Triangles? What Triangles? There's only 1 Trillion triangles on the player's perspective tho. Surely your entry level 4090 can handle it, right?

Mojang needs to see this

nice video

wow, someone who knows what they're talking about, very refreshing

Thank you very much, now I know why I am getting 3 fps👌🏻

Look, this is why I say "More Hardware doesn't make a better game" The argument should be "Better Optimization makes a better game"

Great video

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All of this in 10 minutes, insane video

Awesome video

In the 90s due to the limited resources on computers, devs had no choice but to optimize the software(not just games) before release, internet for updates was pretty much non existent. Remember how little RAM some programs used like Adobe PDF, heck look for PDF reader alternatives and you will see some use less RAM overall. Heck Windows did not show seconds on the clock in the taskbar as the CPU would need to render a new number every second and that would cause a performance hit, while this was more true for Win9x it still shows that devs had to make sure that the code they wrote was good from the start. But these days cause we can have 64GB of RAM, 2TB SSDs devs dont really bother with optimizing software, why waste time optimizing when you have so much resources?

We can't even run games at 4k 165 fps without upscaling unless it is 4080 or 4090. Sucks that gpu prices are getting higher when we're not even getting good performance at native resolution

New games almost entirly lack proper optimizations to make it playable and acceptable for players to enjoy , those who still do it good , are passionate artisits...

True. Unoptimized games is not because of the software engineers but because of the managenent. Speaking from experience as a dev myself. Boy, if you see our codebase. Lol. Tighter deadlines so, we are cutting corners. I don't want to but I need to xD

C. You are using Unity.

this video is a work of art

I feel like Moore's Law will always continue, because 15 years ago everybody was sure it was gonna grind to a halt in 2020 or so because of physical limits and clearly that has not been the case. And there's the whole quantum thing brewing on the horizon for a decade or so now, while not ready for "prime time" yet either, it's clear that it does work and will make us able to reach 'new heights' a few more years down the line that were long thought to be impossible. Otherwise a great video ^^

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What game is it that you mention at 6:12?

Dude imagine being the most sold game of all time and having optimization so bad that a huge chunk of youre comunity is dedicatted to fixing it Minecraft is truly not a heavy game only if the devs adressed it it would be playable

9:26 "pretty good optimization"? no, that's insane optimization. what a simple solution as well. now, whenever i think a program can't be more optimized, i'll slap myself and remember this example and try to optimize it more.

I needed to empty out some space in my drive. From what i gathered indie devs do so much better in optimization. Just look at the most recent poor optimization from cities skyline 2. Most of the time they always argue about home computers under performing to deflect the criticism.

Nice video

Dunkirk is a small city in France, at the englosh channel, in wich the British troops where trapped during the invasion of france. There is also a Movie about this with the same name. @worldsinmotion

u mean to say my GTX 1050 will run GTA VI if optimized wwelll❤

Good video.

I did not understand a word from 5:46 to 10:17. 10/10

Your using unity is also a valid answer

really good video, but you need to find some way to reduce peaks whenever you pronounce S, as it did hurt my ears a bit...

In the future games will be made in a way that doesnt require insane hardware and theyll be a universal standard for specs whilst maintaining realistic graphics

People always say stop optimizing games it’s stupid, and well they need to be optimized

1:51 It can be c. actually ;) Try the same in UE5 with Nanite :D

Hi! Good video, but you used the wrong Godot logo at about 2:00. That's all

Ur gonna blow up

i am going to explode, ive always wanted a video like this, thank

@1:50 C. You are using Unity

I think we should focus on software more than hardware now, hardware is at it's peak and it will never improve to the point of actually...well, improving. I have a 3050 laptop, it's pretty sluggish in certain games but run others like a dream, is there a huge graphical difference? No. So why does it do that?? Fucking optimization. The 3050m gpu is definitely not the peak I was talking about, but it's pretty damn close, just add some extra vram, a little more cuda cores, a little faster bandwidth speed, and boom; you just made yourself something that can run literally everything, (spoiler: that exists, it's called the 3060) and if the 3050 on itself can run everything, some at lower settings, a lot more at higher, then I don't see a single reason we should "improve" from the 3090, much less the 4090. If we're talking realistically, the 4090 can last people decades! What more do we need from a graphics card? Time travel? It's a graphics card, it runs games at 4k ultra with RT on, I seriously do NOT see anything we could improve. If game companies put care into optimization, then I would've have to upgrade my laptop for another decade, and to those with a much more powerful gpu's, like for example a 3070 or a 4070, they shouldn't have to upgrade for another however long it takes for these gpu's to simply break.

This title feels like it should be the lost art of game optimization

I work as a programmer for a small indie studio and my job has really made me wonder how AAA companies make videogames. You often don't see this a lot with indie games, because if your studio has 1 - 3 programmers and someone doesn't know what they're doing, you just don't have a videogame. But AAA companies seem to always struggle with the absolute silliest things, like a single weapon in Destiny 2 breaking 36 times, or the Freddy Fazbear model in Security Breach having straight up movie-level polygons, or games like CoD or RDR2 having absolutely zero compression on anything, or GTA 5 Online literally having an infinite loop on the BOOT. How do these things happen??? EVIDENTLY they have talented engineers on the teams for all of these games, but all of these mistakes are so stupid, so first-semester-of-college basic, that I wonder who these people are actually hiring. Same goes for security too. It's definitely a lot of extra planning, but not much work to make your remotes secure, your client-server communication reliable and safe (P2P is harder though). But then these games never do it, end up with massive cheating problems, and then end up having to shell out millions for a rootkit garbage ""anticheat"". It's baffling.

A sacred art lost to time..

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Topic os good but I can't understand a single word, depending on subtitles only 😢

No way wreckfest made it on a thumbnail

Ah yes, game optimization, the thing every developer ever forgot about

You know it IS quality content when you hear that accent

WildCard Studio needs to see this video ARK Ascended has the worst Optimization i ever seen in a video game

i have live\ long enough to see the days where good graphics doesnt always mean good video game. Lethal Company for the winner!

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