RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> 	About three years ago I remember speaking to some DX guy about a
> standard they were working on for PC game installs.  Something about
> using a fixed percentage of the drive for game installs and it
> automatically managing it.  Anyone remember anything about that or was
> that a crunch mode delusion?

I believe Microsoft are working on something like "zero-install" games, where
the CD is just popped into the drive, and the game uses part of the HDD for
caching - but doesn't rely on it being preserved across runs, similar to what 
games use the Xbox HDD.