| I'd like it if they tested their distributable product on a hard drive sometimes, not just SSD all the time. I've come across a game that had major stutter problems, very noticeable on a HDD but still noticeable on SSD, just noticeable on a ramdisk, problem was frequent saving level data to disk and having some things block while they did that. The developer got lots of reports about performance, they said that people should upgrade their computer, game was 2d and graphically simple, the developer did not understand why people were having performance problems and didn't really care, it is essentially abandoned at this point and still for sale. Another game also had major stutter problems which would last a few seconds each, turns out it was reading a file (which should be read once at startup) over 100 times a second almost all the time it is open. Submitted bug reports in both places they support with log output from the file monitoring I did. No response to either of them. Firefox generally runs fine, if the HDD where your profile is located is saturated with IO then pages will not load until Firefox is able to write to the disk, this is with disk cache turned off. This isn't unexpected behaviour and not a bug like I would consider the previous two examples, but it is noticeable. I really would like developers to test on a HDD even if only every few releases, and would also like them to use a monitoring tool on their software sometimes. This is just so their products don't have really bad behaviour on the system it is running on which the developers are completely oblivious to. |