A rare case of genre savviness improving the experience

https://lemmy.world/post/43895311

F4

“You cannot save right now.”

Your comment made this thought pop into my head:

I wonder if it would be possible to make a utility that would basically give any game emulator-style save states… 🤔

“Emulator-style save states” is just a flash image of the RAM being used by the application. Very easy and fast for old games, but the amount of RAM being used by modern games could result in multiple GigaByte-sized save files. :3
It surely wouldn’t be more than 16GB tho. I would hope… If a game rn uses more than that, holy shit what the fuck?

Memory leaks happen. I had one recently where the game crashed and I happened to have a system monitor open on the other screen.

My setup has 64GB of RAM. The game as it crashed was consuming 50+GB of RAM, leading me to believe it was eating up every last bit before finally biting the dust because the computer effectively cut it off from taking anymore and forced the game to close because it reached its threshold.

Granted I was using heavy cheats like god mode, infinite ammo, etc. lol