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I look forward to the day that game companies start making hi res textures an optional part of the installation. I don't need all of the textures used for 4k when I'm running in 1440p High. They are just wasted space on the hard drive.
For the user interface they can easily inform the user which options are restricted if they don't install the textures.
I mean we had that
We did?
Whole bunch of games you could select texture quality on install back in the days when games came on CDs.
I must have missed them!
On some games, like Fallout 4, the "HD" textures are free DLC. I don't know why we can't just do that for most games.
Yeah, I also remember some games allowing you to choose compressed or uncompressed textures when they first started to be supported by new cards