You hear about Intel meltdown?

[Allyriadil]

That still might not have prevented this problem. The instruction set does not determine how the manufacturer implement the specification on the silicon or in their firmware so they could still have security holes.

It would be at least a step in the right direction.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I don’t think this is going to affect the game at all.

[Tridus]

The patch itself affect the reading and writing speed of the SSD's much more than the in game performance.
The security holes of the intel cpu's sounds very familiar, its like i have heard about it long time ago, but everyone was making a fun of it calling it a conspiracy tin foil haters, it came out to be true, thats funny. .

A broken clock is right twice a day. Doesn't mean it's anything other than a broken clock.

It is a hardware security hole which cannot be repaired with the software updated, thats why.
The thing was an open doors for anyone who know how to use.

Meltdown can be fixed in software by clearing the TLB whenever the kernel needs to switch between ring 3 and ring 0, whereas it used to keep some kernel stuff in it even while in ring 3 for performance reasons. That's why the patches are having a performance impact (again, how much impact depends on the type of workload, as it can range from barely measurable to horrific).

Spectre doesn't appear to have any software fix and can't be fully fixed without redesigning how CPUs work. Fortunately, Spectre is also far harder to exploit.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The future needs RISC-V open instruction sets for processors, so this stuff can be prevented.

This isn't an issue caused by the instruction set, or AMD would have been effected by it as well. Also, just using new instructions means new OS, new CPU's, new software to run on it.

[Fhaerron]

I hope all you guys know that this bug has been here for years.

Yes, the world will end tomorrow.

/sarcasm.


I'm not saying this bug is ok but seriously we've had this bug for years, nothing is suddenly going to change overnight, the world didn't end yesterday and it won't end tomorrow either.
This is just news fuel and of course money is to be made out of it (you'd be surprised to know how corrupt the corporate bussiness actually are on the background).

I'm not really into old news and quite frankly this has been an 'issue' for years so it's pretty old news to me.

[Zfz]

I hope all you guys know that this bug has been here for years.

Bug was there for years, but the patch that will affect performance is only released now. So yes, some things will change overnight, or over the reboot after you finish the update. The bug is a security problem, while the patch will cause the performance problem. The two are distinct.