Re: Worst review of all time?

Thusly Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:

>> Lastly, he was correct about Gothic's memory usage. Did PB ever hear of
>> optimization?
>
>I suspect they have since they programmed a large and complicated game.
>
>Why dont you give them a ring and "remind them", hey, maybe you could
>redesign their object model to save a few bytes?

I don't remember Gothic 2 leaking memory. Nor do I remember it running
slow or, much less, running out of memory on the 512MB RAM rig I ran
it on.

Like I said when I commented on that review when it was new, his rig
must've been seriously misconfigured and/or underspecced.




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A country *may* be attacked in 2009, but only if polls show democrats will win
the election, and it will if so not be small and defenceless. Iran?
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