D for Game Development

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 21:27:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 15:10:59 UTC, Brandon Ragland 
> wrote:
>> It's a dog because Java is a dog. But that's not because of 
>> the GC.
>>
>> It's not really that bad either, I can open up Minecraft at 
>> any time and have it sit in the background quietly using 
>> ~800Mb ram and virtually no cpu time.
>>
>> Either your kid has tons of mods in their Minecraft or your 
>> computer is a bit dated.
>
> Now compare that kind of resources consumption with any game 
> based on Quake III engine. While you are at it, compare the 
> graphisms. Still not convinced ? Measure latencies, which are 
> critical for most games.

Heh, what about the original Quake or Unreal? Both ran quite well 
on a Pentium 100 with 16MB of RAM. Not sure if memory is serving 
me right, but I suspect the amount of visible triangles per scene 
in Quake 1 can be comparable to that of Minecraft's, except it 
was released almost 20 years ago... I think I was able to run it 
on my 486 with 8MB of RAM, though it was more of a slideshow than 
a game, even with minimum viewport size, but still!