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by rasz 2785 days ago
One of the large World of Tanks (online game) patches last year turned 10 second map load times into full minute wait for HDD owners ;-) SSD users didnt notice a thing. Some idiot with dev workstation (xeon, high xx GB ram, NVMe storage) decided to rearrange data structures in files loaded every game round, and nobody has time for testing apparently.