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Post by bex on Sept 15, 2020 7:50:04 GMT -5
If I design a course on a standard PS4, how much memory does that usually take up. Is it possible to do a design without external hard drives for storage?
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Post by sroel908 on Sept 15, 2020 13:42:59 GMT -5
If I design a course on a standard PS4, how much memory does that usually take up. Is it possible to do a design without external hard drives for storage? I have a 4-5 year old 500GB PS4, have a bunch of games on it, and have never had any issue creating multiple courses in previous TGC games. The most courses I have created in one game was 5 I think, in TGC 2019. I don't have any additional storage in play either - no external hard drives, USB drives, cloud storage, etc. The game itself limits the size of the course file, the memory used by planting objects, etc. So you can't have a course that goes past the in-game limits that are set. I would assume this keeps course file size pretty low. But that's just a guess - I've never actually looked at how much memory a course takes up.
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Post by ErixonStone on Sept 15, 2020 16:08:36 GMT -5
The way PS4 works is that a certain amount of storage space has to be allocated for a file before it can be created. Later, if the file size exceeds the allocation, PS4 will refuse to save it.
Back in TGC1 this used to cause tons of crashes because the file allocation wasn't big enough to hold course files that had a lot of objects. HB spent time optimizing things to help, but needed to do more. Another thing they did was limit the number of previous states they saved so that users could only perform a single UNDO command. Lastly, and most prominently, HB increased the amount of storage allocated for the course file.
Nowadays, there shouldn't be any problem in terms of the ability to fit a course file on your hard drive once it's already created because enough space to fit a huge course file has already been allocated for it. This is how PS4's OS works.
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Post by bex on Sept 15, 2020 21:18:09 GMT -5
awesome, thanks guys
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