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The Xbox One’s eSRAM has been a topic of much controversy ever since the console launched back in November 2013. GamingBolt has interviewed several developers in the past and although most of them are positive about its usage, there are almost an equal number who think that eSRAM is very small to output 1080p resolution and is a bottleneck.
GamingBolt recently spoke to Camille Mirey who is the CEO of Persistant Studios. Persistant are working on PopcornFX, a middleware technology that focuses on 3D realtime particles along with metrics, asset workflow and debugging. The middleware is being used in many AAA titles like Black Desert and is currently available for PC, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS3.
The Xbox One’s eSRAM although limited in size has a extremely high bandwidth, with a peak speed of 204 Gb/s. In our lengthy interview with Camille, we asked whether there is potential for better particle effects using eSRAM or is it more of a bottleneck given it’s extremely small size.
“Actually, the small memory isn’t problematic, it only means you can use 32Mb at a time, but you can map/unmap virtual memory at will on those very fast 32Mb,” Camille explains. We found this statement interesting as the eSRAM has been criticized before for its small size .
Camille believes that this could actually result into better particle effects as it makes overdraw faster. “And this is usually used for render targets and blending-intensive operations. So it will indirectly help particles [effects], by making high overdraw be faster,” she further explains.
However being a middleware provider, they cannot take the decision of using it since they need to communicate with the developer first. Moreover using the eSRAM is not on their priority list at the moment.
“We could decide to use that memory, but as a middleware developer, there are decisions we cannot make on our own. The game studio might have other plans for those 32 Mb that we’re not aware of. So for the moment, we’ll definitely do some research and testing with eSRAM when we have Popcorn FX running on the GPU, to see what we can do with it, but it’s not a really big priority right now,” she said.
This is just a snippet of our interview with Persistant Studios and we will have more in the coming days.

Muchas son las voces discrepantes ante la ampliación de la oferta de entretenimiento propuesta por Microsoft para XBOX One, el concepto conocido como All in One parece resultar molesto por la posibilidad que esto suscita al poder desplazar la prioridad que se debe con los juegos. Desde Microsoft desmienten que esta circunstancia pueda darse, ya que XBOX One sigue siendo una consola de videojuegos por encima de todo.

Como viene siendo costumbre, cualquier noticia de Microsoft se suele dar la vuelta para crear nuevas polémicas que surgen de algún rincón ‘misterioso y desconocido’ de la red, donde, la presentación de XBOX Originals ha traído de vuelta la dilución del concepto All in One como un problema. Desde Microsoft, han dejado constancia de que la creación de XBOX Entertainment Studios no interferirá en la labor de Microsoft Games Studios, tal como ha dejado constancia Jordan Levin a través de Polygon.

Precisamente, la división de responsabilidades para los diferentes fines en diferentes estudios ha sido uno de los principios que Microsoft ha llevado a cabo para dejar claro que no hay interferencia entre sus labores. Tal como comenta el Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de XBOX Entertainment Studios, “ninguna actividad que perseguimos viene a expensas de cualquier inversión que se ha hecho en la plataforma global o juegos”, de este modo, Levin asegura que “no se están desplazando los recursos destinados a los juegos, ofreciendo así, algo más a la hora de jugar, una experiencia no lineal donde no hay restricciones para el entretenimiento. Somos un departamento que se dedica a un servicio que está destinado a aumentar una propuesta que llegue al público, donde, si llega bien, y si no, reaccionaremos”, pero en definitiva, lo que quiere dejar claro es que “No estamos interfiriendo en lo que se refiere al proceso de financiación ni producción de juegos”.

Microsoft sigue haciendo campaña, con el objetivo de convencer y de llevar a la próxima cita de la Electronic Entertainment Expo, o E3, una propuesta llena de novedades, sorpresas y, sobre todo, muchos juegos, donde las producciones exclusivas serán protagonistas, tal como se ha dado a conocer en varias ocasiones.

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[spoiler]The Xbox One’s eSRAM has been a topic of much controversy ever since the console launched back in November 2013. GamingBolt has interviewed several developers in the past and although most of them are positive about its usage, there are almost an equal number who think that eSRAM is very small to output 1080p resolution and is a bottleneck.
GamingBolt recently spoke to Camille Mirey who is the CEO of Persistant Studios. Persistant are working on PopcornFX, a middleware technology that focuses on 3D realtime particles along with metrics, asset workflow and debugging. The middleware is being used in many AAA titles like Black Desert and is currently available for PC, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS3.
The Xbox One’s eSRAM although limited in size has a extremely high bandwidth, with a peak speed of 204 Gb/s. In our lengthy interview with Camille, we asked whether there is potential for better particle effects using eSRAM or is it more of a bottleneck given it’s extremely small size.
“Actually, the small memory isn’t problematic, it only means you can use 32Mb at a time, but you can map/unmap virtual memory at will on those very fast 32Mb,” Camille explains. We found this statement interesting as the eSRAM has been criticized before for its small size .
Camille believes that this could actually result into better particle effects as it makes overdraw faster. “And this is usually used for render targets and blending-intensive operations. So it will indirectly help particles [effects], by making high overdraw be faster,” she further explains.
However being a middleware provider, they cannot take the decision of using it since they need to communicate with the developer first. Moreover using the eSRAM is not on their priority list at the moment.
“We could decide to use that memory, but as a middleware developer, there are decisions we cannot make on our own. The game studio might have other plans for those 32 Mb that we’re not aware of. So for the moment, we’ll definitely do some research and testing with eSRAM when we have Popcorn FX running on the GPU, to see what we can do with it, but it’s not a really big priority right now,” she said.
This is just a snippet of our interview with Persistant Studios and we will have more in the coming days.