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Re: Does Stadia run on Bare Metal?

els1 — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 01:51:06 GMT

Translation: Everything you see when playing stadia is part of the game, and not part of any OS of sorts, while the game logic runs on top of linux.

Re: Do stadia devs have complete access to the hardware or do they have to use libraries to use Stad

els1 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:45:33 GMT

Are they forced to use these APIs in order to develop stadia, or can they make their own apis.

Re: Do stadia devs have complete access to the hardware or do they have to use libraries to use Stad

els1 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:42:02 GMT

Well PS2 devs had complete access to Hardware, and they could do all kinds of awesome stuff with them. Also, every game console up to Super Nintendo had their games written down to the metal with assembly in order to maximize the hardware power. Could stadia devs do the same?

Do stadia devs have complete access to the hardware or do they have to use libraries to use Stadia?

els1 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:50:01 GMT

Requiring Developers to use libraries could hamper the ability to effectively utilize the hardware. By allowing direct access to stadia hardware ensures that developers could utilize stadia at its fullest while allowing the devs to develop stadia using their preferred method.

Re: Does Stadia run on Bare Metal?

els1 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:45:08 GMT

I think that stadia should be made up of many identical modules, that each run a single game instance, games will have complete access to the hardware. Stadia modules only start or stop running games when the master module requests them to switch. Running on bare metal ensures the highest performance on stadia hardware.

Does Stadia run on Bare Metal?

els1 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:21:23 GMT

When stadia servers are running games, do the games run on top of an OS, or do they run directly on the hardware. Running on Bare Metal means that games can take full advantage of stadia hardware.