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  It's not about hardware. It's about disc space. : Chris Faylor
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    Was that sarcasm? : dubiousbrick
    • Sadly, no. : FuryVII
    • I should clarify, it's not about the power of the hardware. : Chris Faylor
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  or the textures are so huge ;) : BornKiler
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    There is only one texture and yes it is huge. : thejay247
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      I've watched videos of Carmack explaining that and I still don't understand it. I do however know that wh... : natepalm
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        IANARenderer, but... The way I've read it, it sounds like culling textures like we already do with pol... : C@ffine
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          Here's how it works: Split your huge massive texture up into small "pages" (e.g. 128x128 or something)... : navelskrutt
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            But that means that you have to get textures pages in and out of the video memory all the time, and that ... : pillzer
            • Well, the textures for a single frame need to fit into RAM, you wouldn't be able to swap in from the HDD ... : jake
            • There's a very strong coherence from frame to frame. You only stream things in when the view changes. If ... : navelskrutt