it wasn't too long ago that you could play new AAA games with 4GB of system RAM and 2GB cards. Some of those games looked great too. Now these absolute hogs eat 20-30 GB of memory (combined) like it's nothing. That's 5x as much, and it's much faster memory too. I'm no coder, Doc can correct me if this is a dumb take but it feels to me like devs are bruteforcing super high res textures (and other resources) through traditional methods that weren't meant for stuff on that level, which results in that insane memory usage