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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

I mean I can understand how textures add up but 161 gigs for a basketball game seems like a lot of unoptimized stuff going on

[-] Silinde@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

The majority of the space on modern games is taken up by high definition audio. Those thousands of commentator lines add up to dozens of gigs alone.

[-] luke@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Idk if NBA games have a lot of cut scenes but those are sometimes the culprit; Separate rendered videos in every language that the game supports.

[-] llama@midwest.social 14 points 10 months ago

So they're likely not optimizing by not using Opus.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Madden is only like 50 gigs I think

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Do they not even use compression anymore? I've been wondering since Steam came out if I was downloading compressed game files or wasting bandwidth every time. They used to try to conserve storage, compressing everything to fit on one or two discs (or floppy disks before that)

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

If you watch the download graph, the blue bars is what you're downloading, and is always significantly smaller than the green line which is what is being saved to disk.

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