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Diablo 4 is a great PC port - except you need a 16GB graphics card to match PS5 (www.eurogamer.net)
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Texture quality issues mar an otherwise excellent effort.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a technical reason that this is needed or do the devs just not optimize the games well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The article doesn’t offer an explanation, but to opine: 9th gen consoles are very memory optimized. Beyond their GDDR6 or equivalent RAM, they also have ultra fast NVMe storage drives (which you cannot assume a PC will have when porting) that can carry some of the weight you would formerly expect RAM to carry.