What Happens When You PAUSE or SAVE A Game?

How exactly does pausing and saving in games work? It feels like magic, but it's actually an interesting process. Let Falcon break it down.

[gameranxTV]

What other gaming processes would you like to see us detail? LET US KNOW DUDE

[non-pfqo]

What happens when a game starts glitching

[pizzamanpezzz]

When they ask a simple question but as soon as you click they go all science on your ass

[bradybeast]

Being a game developer myself, you guys make these features seem SO much more easier than it actually is to program these features

[woahthere]

its jerry lawsons fault that our parents say pause that online game

[GoedRS]

Paused multiplayer to watch this video

[TrustEngineers]

He didn't mention how Skyrim saves works for example. The save file have an internal database that saves X, Y, Z coordinates of every single item that you have touched. Before you touch it, it have a default position, but after you touch it, the new row is created in the database. Same goes for containers, as soon as you open a chest or a cupboard or any other container, it's contents are copied and stored in the safe file. So the more items and characters you interact with, the bigger the save file gets.

[PixlPlayer]

Star Wars republic commandos had a great save system. It had normal checkpoints but you could also quick save at any time, so during the more difficult parts of the game, you could inch your way through saving all the time until you finally got it right

[Avran]

The description of RAM was really helpful!

(Part of a computer that you need in order to do anything)

[andrewlambert]

I had an old pc game that pause didn't pause as it more so just caused every thing to move so slow it was hard to notice. it turned out you could exploit that. specifically during boss fights. You could spam the fire button and it would register each click so when you unpaused the game all the shots would be fired at once and kill the boss

[isaiahfavero]

if humans can't see air, can fish see water?

[Greenwood]

My theory is all the characters goes and has a nice chat, a cup of coffee, and wait until the game starts again.. all the baddies and goodies, just chill until the pause stops.. talk about their families, show pictures, or read the newspaper.

[basiert]

Me: Oh wow i always wanted to know that, the answer cant be that complicated!

*2 minutes into video*

Falcon: blah blah blah save files blah blah motherboard gets computer generated data blah blah

Me: *not paying attention and questions why im still watching*

[captainireland]

I usually pause a game just before I know I'm gonna die 50 times, so.... every boss battle I guess.

[riserebel]

I love how you guys can stretch out something that can be explained in a sentence

[Floridablaze]

IF YOU WANT A SIMPLE ANSWER:
A code called a "pause loop" takes place and continues over and over until you return. And a save file is stored that contains the code of where you left off and pretty much just comes back when you load.

[basiert]

Nothing, because you can never remember to save

[farce]

gosh I love how every gameranx videos ends up educating us but not in the boring way. I want to learn more

[Alfirio]

The way Halo 3 saved a whole match or campaign level that you could go back into in theater mode and see exactly what someone else did or just fly around the map. And even have people join your lobby and do the same thing. Amazing 👌🏼
Do kill cams next

[luckdragon]

I'm glad you did this video. So many gamers spend their time complaining and giving developers a hard time. Not enough of them ever truly understand the time, effort and intricacies of creating a game.