100+ gigs is the norm now. Every game is a fucking bloated uncompressed whale taking up my entire SSD.How do we lobby the government to force devs to compress their files like they used to?
>>740451113she killed trillions
I miss when everything was normal :(
There should be a software inefficiency tax.
Make low rise jeans great again
i fuk ur mom
>>740451113I have a 2TB SSD dedicated to games, I'm not struggling for space. Maybe once you install that 299th game, you should think about if you're going to play it.
>>740451936they look awful on men and awful on 90% of women (most women aren't avril lavigne)
>>740451113They're bloated on purpose to discourage console users from uninstalling games.
>>740451113if you have 1tb ssd you can install like 10 gameshow many is enough you greedy slut?
>>740452961Well, it just makes me not wanna install it in the first place as a pc user
>>740451113Genuinely the hottest girl on planet earth back then
hag
>>740451936>>740452909The problem is that most women are overweight, which wasn't the case 20 years ago. Actually there's more OBESE than overweight nowadays. Normal BMI is like 20%
>>740453001>Only plays 10 games in her whole life
>>740451113i blame texturewhores for it
Path of Exile 2 1.0 will be 240gb and it's the greatest ARPG ever made
>>740451406me too man
>>740451936this
It's because retarded devs reuse assets so you get shit like every npc that will never open their mouth has a full set of individually rendered teeth.
>>740454045reusing assets lowers file size, and model complexity has nothing to do with file sizeit's always audio for every fucking language + badly compressed textures
I HATE WOMEN
What was with the crabwalk meme?
>>740451113How about you don't contribute to government bloat and instead take a modicum of responsibility for your own environment?
>buy external hardrives>put heavy installed games into it>uninstall games from pc>when the time comes plug external hardrive, copy the game back and verify filesa shitty bandaid solution to a shitty problem made by the devs themselves
Windows has a file compression system built into NTFS. You just need to use it.
>>740455770We do not use Micro$tein Shekels on this board.
>>740451113Vote with your wallet (so to speak). I stopped buying COD games because of this and have skipped others for it as well. Single player games with file sizes this big get uninstalled the moment I finish them and then I never come back for dlc. They need to understand that they are hurting their own sales by doing this. Also, stop hiring worthless jeets. They are half the reason why because they are too incompetent to shrink the file sizes.
>>740451113Hardware is improving.The problem is that software skills are degrading much more quickly than the improvements which leads to bloated software.
I miss when she was that hot...
>>740455447I just refuse to buy games larger than 10 gigs most of the time, 25 if its a dev I really want to supportIts changed my gaming habits, but not really for the worse. More puzzles and "choice density over graphical density" games which please my unc brain
I legit don't understand this complaint. Just get a 1TB M2 used or on sale and fill it with 10 video games you rotate in and out. In a world where GPUs and RAM cost a soul, who cares about storage lmao?
>>740453001100 at the very least.
>>740455447>can redownload faster than SATA HDDs can transfer Why offload them?
>>740451113I wouldn't mind the filesize if SSD prices weren't completely fucked.
>>740456473eh the idea was for people with not so fast dl speed
Although I dislike big file sizes as much as anyone else, I also think it's unrealistic to expect an AAA open world game with top 5 biggest worlds in vidya history + 400 hours of playtime + next gen graphics + 100% filled map with no copy pasted or empty spots to be less than 100gb.
>>740453001>its OK to delete games because the digital jew will always let me re-download it laterWhat a trusting goy.
>>740453481>her
I recently saw a video which said that the grotesque file sizes and the optimization issues of modern games stem from the Nanite technology that UE5 uses.>A major feature of Unreal Engine 5 is Nanite, a virtualized geometry system that allows developers to use photogrammetry (turning IRL photos into textures) and other high-detail meshes in their games without significant performance impact (LOL). Traditionally, artists had to create multiple models for different levels of detail (LoDs) and generate normal maps for finer details. Nanite automatically manages LoDs by scaling models dynamically based on draw distance, screen resolution, and performance requirements. It partitions meshes into a set of 128-triangle clusters called meshlets, allowing different parts of a single mesh to render at varying levels of detail. Nanite is compatible with many 3D model formats, including ZBrush sculpts and CAD models, enabling developers to directly import film-quality assets without manual optimization.
>>740460591I trust Gabe more than I trust anyone outside the USA.
>>740453910>wear thongs and strings to eliminate visible panty lines>wear the straps over the hemline of the pants making them visible anywayWoman logic
>>740462046>>wear thongs and strings to eliminate visible panty linessource?
>>740462182You are either a virgin or underaged (a virgin)
>>740451113I bought a 4TB SSD for like €250 a year ago.
>>740465139LOOK AT RICHIE RICH OVER HERE
>>740465178It's a pittance compare to putting together a capable PC nowadays. How do you afford one to play the new 100GB games but not more space?
>>740454350thispeople underestimate how large good audio is, there's a reason old flash files had good everything except the audio, which was crunchy 99% of the time. it simply takes up too much space
>>740460441Skyrim was 5.5GB on launch at a time when install sizes were really starting to balloon. It's possible to have big games that are also compact. Uncompressed audio is a big contributor but modern devs can't program for shit. You get 100GB+ behemoths that also run like shit.
>>740465596Skyrim's map is basically empty landmarks and it is small compared to modern open world games. The graphics are also PS3 tier.
>>740451113were you inspired to post this thread because of the deadlock thread?
>>740456394i put an m2 into my pc and it doesnt detect it and im too lazy to figure out what i did wrong
>>740451113
>>740451113>There's no good texture compression technology >Gamers have complained for years that an ugly texture in a corner somewhere hidden behind a wall is ugly and the work of lazy devs so they took steps to make sure every texture is 4K HD which bloat file sizesThats pretty much it
>>740465821and you don't need anything more
>>740462046>>wear thongs and strings to eliminate visible panty linesthat's mostly for dresses.
If you didn't want giant file sizes then why did you ask for 4K textures and lossless audio files and models with high poly counts? You express frustration but you've been voting with your wallet the whole time, and developers and publishers heard you.
>>740452909>they look awful on menAre you gay nigga? Why would you even think of men wearing it in the first place?
>>740452909Low rise jeans are for women, you fucking twink. kys
>>740454350>reusing assets lowers file sizeYou are retarded.
>>740451113I have like 30 games on my PC and none of them pass 30gb. Maybe choose ypur games better
>>740453001Sure thing, delete and download other 100gb games over and over, so your SSD gets fucked faster, goyim.
>>740471059sniveling poorfag cope
For me it's not the hard drive space, it's the fact that since I moved to a rural area, it would take me literally about a week of straight downloading to install a 100gb game with this godawful internet. Never go rural.
It's an open secret in the industry that file sizes are intentionally bloated to create friction. A console user can only hold a few games at a time and the inconvenience of having to reinstall such large files means that consumers are less likely to delete your game and more likely to use it habitually.
>>740462046That isn't a contradiction. They don't want the lines of the pants/dress ruined, but they want to make it clear they are wearing an enticing thong.
>>740451936There's a few tiktok trends, luckily.I also see more women showing their tummy when it's sunny downtown.
>>740460591then buy more storage or shut the fuck up
>>740462046The logic is : they want you to want them.
>>740472409I have old 128gb ssd from 2012 that I stopped using in 2023 because it wasn't even worth the sata port it was taking up anymoreyou would have to spend years deleting and copying shit 24/7 to kill a consumer SSD
>>740477735Correction: They want attractive men to want them.
>>740451936sorry women need high rise pants to hide their fupa
>Lindsay Lohan got SHITTED in Dubai and married some royal>Amanda Bynes...well...pic related>Hillary Duff is doing all right for herself>Kenan is doing well for himself as he's still on SNL>Kel is irrelevant>Jamie Lynn Spears is doing some Netflix show>Suite Life twins got out unscathed and Dylan married a supermodel and has a kid on the wayim too lazy to do other actors/actresses i just wanted to post this picture
>>740452909>awful on 90% of womenGood. It'll help with rising pussy inflation when women can't hide their stomach fat with high rise jeans.
>>740451936They are in fashion again.
What do we think of puffy pussy panties?
>100+ gigs is the norm now>he 'thought' that something as potentially powerful as computers in the A. I. Age, would be left in plebes' hands and not made luxury items for the (((1%))) only
>>740478879Her breakdown was so depressing.
>>740460591Maybe you can offload some of them to slower storage? Like a HDD or NAS if you want to hoard them like gollum, assume your ass can live that long to enjoy them.I have 1TB cheapest SSD and I only have like 7 games with the largest being Starfield right now, i have like 280 games in library. But it's not wrong that anon above said we really need a software inefficiency tax to these dev/companies motherfuckers. Instead of dumping all the render tax to us, they should have swallowed it. Im gonna rape their ass based on per Megabytes.
>>740454350>Motherfucker doesn't understand that polycount actually fucks the CPU/GPU up hardCan you fuck off back to /b/ or /po/ someplace else.
>>740479127>>>/po/Try posting there.
>>740479437You're complaining about sushi at an arby's dude. This thread is about file size.
>>740479629Im telling you arby is what arby is, you either have ways to fit that big chunk of meat flaps in or you take it bit by bit. I'm complaining arby and sushi business owners are forcing us to do the cooking and serving that includes the arby you're having that you end up needing space to cook that shit in the first place.
>>740451113Piracy.I won't buy anything any more. It's beyond a mess. Everything is piracy from now on unless things change.
>>740451113I bought Running Train on Steam. Solo dev, UE5 graphics, train simulator. <3gb. I'm stunned.
>>740479127what the fuck
>>740480206If you're the sole owner of the stuff you make, you are responsible for what good and bad you make. In this case, dude is very responsible. Unlike big ass companies who have bloated staff and shit pushed around until it hits the market with no accountability. I hope whatever """jounalist""" reading shit here, you get your computer or car or ride fucked up the moment you want to use it because you didn't ""cover"" actual issues.
Alright lemme check Steam...>Dark Souls: 7GB>Factorio: 5GB>Hollow Knight: 5GB>Rimworld: 1.3GB>Pizza Tower: 385MB>Balatro: 63MB
>>740455447Use linux. Have one big hdd and one small ssd of enterprise grade that can survive when not getting trim commans. Setup lvm on the hdd and put the ssd as lvm cache. Enjoy mostly ssd speeds and hdd capacities.
>>740451113only shitty AAA games that suck ass anywaythe sign of a good game is that it's under 100MB
>>740480325And for big companies they can just replace people whenever the higher ups feel like the backlash is too much. There's always people dying to get into the industry. With solo devs (or very small teams), they're essentially irreplaceable, so they can't afford to fuck up.
>>740454350>reusing assets lowers file sizeYou missed the point so badly you started talking about a completely different thingAnon was talking about devs reusing assets someone else made either as a premade asset or from another project, leading to lack of optimization as models render stuff the average viewer will never see at way too high of a polycount, because they grabbed models made with prerendered ads in mind, not a game that has to render it in real time, or a different genre with different fidelity expectationsYou're talking about devs reusing the same texture throughout the game so they don't have to make 5000 individual boxes and windows for the gameBut you're correct that if you look at only the filesize unoptimized models are negligible
>>740451936Be the change you want to see in the world
God knows how much cock Lindsey Lohan took, and how many times she was sexually assaulted by corporate executives at the Disney network, and Hollywood in general. She spiraled into drug addiction for like 15 years or some shit, but I heard she got clean and was trying to turn her life around, granted she looks like she aged 40 years.
>>740460441that's because you have no technical understanding of the issue
>>740465821>Skyrim's map is basically empty landmarksThat's every open world game
>>740451113They are uncompressed because consoles have almost no RAM to actual preload them, that's why every game now stream them from your SSD.To unfuck that your would need to have 128GB RAM as standard, 2x16GB ram sticks currently cost $439.99.
Post your steam library and sort by size on disk.
>>740481083
If its uncompressed then you can use an automatically compressing filesystem like btrfs on linux. Really looks like its a windows problem. Maybe you should give linux a try
>>740469571Stupid zoomer, men wore low rise jeans when it was trendy
>>740479127They fooled millions
>>740478879Amanda Bynes was always Shrek-like.
>>740451406Welcome to becoming old.Stop interacting with media. Its not aimed at you. Every gen gets this and every gen misses the good old days
>>740451113If only you could download games without 4k textures
>>740481621stop deluding yourself, things are dogshit compared to the early 2000s
>>740451113>>740481653is her ass freckeled too? how deep to both holes do freckels reach ?
>>740479007they can still use shapewear. I've seen a few shapewear reveal videos and it's amazing how much distustingness they can hide. I have no idea why women try to pretend to be sexually desirable when most men would vomit once those leggings come off.
>>740452961that's certainly one reason, but I'm pretty sure it also comes down to the fact that they don't need to optimize their games anymore, especially when they sell games digitally.
>>740478879>Kenan is doing well for himself as he's still on SNL>Kel is irrelevantI heard they had a falling out so the later just became a ghost in response.
I've never downloaded a game bigger than 100GB and I never will.I already know if it's that unnecessarily bloated it's garbage.
>>740451113Been a couple cases of devs actually managing to bring file sizes down recently with helldivers massive cut and Marvel rivals giving the option to rip out the highest res textures so clearly some devs are starting to recognize there's a problem.>Wanting the government to become more involved in something you likeKill yourself
>>740480453Based.
>>740481072You are clueless.Games are bloated but current gen consoles can decompress and stream assets quite well. There is no need to load everything into RAM when you can just pull it from the storage just in time.
>>740453650not at that file size it's not
>>740451113you can't because they all want to make their games available in 4k with lighting that costs them 200 million dollars and gameplay that costs them 200 thousand dollars like fucking retards.
>>740481621Then why did it happen to Zoomers much sooner than any other generation? You should consider that maybe this time things really did go to shit and even the younger generation can see that older media was better.
>>740453910those are not low rise at all
Pirate sites are somehow able to make downloads where the textures are lower quality if you are okay with hd instead of 4k and you don't have to download every single language pack and what not.
>>740464870>no sourceConcession accepted
>>740452961I'd imagine it boils more down to simple fact that SSDs are dirt cheap now and everyone's got two or more 1-2TB SSDs so they just say fuck it to file size optimization.
>>740486252>SSDs are dirt cheap nowthe prices haven't gone down yet bro
>>740485847I'm playing death stranding 2 right now and language packs are 9GB out of 125GB total. I can't tell how much space textures take because it's using some proprietary file system. So for that game you could not save much space. PS5 version is ~91GB so having multiple graphics quality settings on PC is give or take 25GB.
>>740478879Drake and Josh basically swapped roles in life last I saw. Josh got fit and married a supermodel and last I heard Drake moved to Mexico because he had a weirdly big fan base there once he got out of crippling debt.
>>740486252SSDs sadly doubled in price since last year, shame I would buy more storage if that wasn't the case.
>>740451113I can fit 4 games on my PS5 lmao
>>740481314No they didn't you dumb faggot. They wore skinny jeans but that's the only crossover that happened and it was obviously after low rise jeans(late 00s vs late 90s early 00s). Back then baggy jeans and khakis were popular with men when low rise were popular with women. Usually with a polo or like a long sleeve T covered by a black regular T or graphic T. t. 36 yo non homosexual male also pic related
Stop being poor
>>740451113Of course devs are going to cater to the richfags.
>>740465437I thought people learned this lesson when titanfall 1 had like 40gb of audio files alone because it forced you to download the audio for every single support language
How many games are actually 100gb+ that you're actively plaiyng? It's easier these days to just uninstall and redownload something if you truly are starving for space.
>>740487295It's something people who don't actually play games say.>there's 400 languages all with uncompressed 8 channel audio!The lion's share is almost always textures. Some games like Hitman and Sniper Elite also have insanely large maps.
>>740481621>touch grassWhy don’t you, idiot? I live in NYC and it’s insane how brown and ugly everyone is compared to 20 years ago.
>>740453650poop2 sucks and is not even an arpg. sorry sis.
gaming is made for the rich now (or has it always been?).that said it is pathetic for the rich to lurk in 4chan. maybe that's a big cause of the world's decline nowadays, they are pretending that "nothing ever happens" yet they had the power to do so.
>>740451113>How do we lobby the government to force devs to compress their files like they used to?You failed to force digital storage manufacturers to use the same measurement units as everyone else does, instead of making up their own so they can lie about the capacity of their devices right on the box.American courts are not on your side.
>>740490367Shut the fuck up you fucking retard. God I'm so tired of retarded poorly educating children existing online these days.Gaming is fucking ridiculously cheap and always has been. It is literally one of the most affordable hobbies of all time for the amount of fun and entertainment you can get per dollar spent. Things like high end gaming PCs and the like have always been fucking expensive and always will be expensive and have no actual fucking bearing on the price of gaming. For fucks sake, you can spend like $50 or dumpster dive and spend literally nothing on an old office PC and emulate every single game made and released in every country in the fucking world from the 70s to mid 2000s. You can pull out your phone which you already own and your parents already bought you and practically do the exact same thing as well.God you people are insufferable and annoying, fuck off.
>>740451113i never found lindsay lohan attractive, she always looked like a hag
>>740485812hot but her torso does look a bit too long
>>740490621gay little kid sybau
Teenage girls are attractive
>>740491153stop staring at fat women
>>740490621
>>740490581Your boomerism, pretending that you know what it's all happening in this world, is the reason the world is in decline, and OK, I get it you don't care about it.By the way you have no proof that it is cheap, you faggot, while expensive shit is everywhere.Or maybe you are just a falseflagging pirate after all.
>>740461095Pretty sure all the cutscenes and audio in games don't help either. So many games shipping with multiple language formats adding to the bulk.
>>740491993I don't care about poor people in india saar. What do you mean I have no proof it is cheap? I literally just presented you with an example. Sorry you can't afford anything in your shit filled streets kumar.
>>740481621For the past 7 years, the Billboard Top 40 has been filled with music from over 10 years ago and every other game, TV show, and movie is a remake/revival of an old IP and those that aren't flop completely. Gen Alpha doesn't have their own media. Stuff genuinely was better 20+ years ago and even the kids of today see it.
>>740451936That doesn't make sense, if it rises how is it low???
>>740452909We need to go back to shaming people for being fat, both men and women. Fat men used to be the butt of every joke. Fat women weren't even considered human unless they were over the age of 65.It's not cruel, being fat is a choice and can be changed, when society accepts fat people for being fat, they have no motivation to change.
>>740491951i'm talking about the "illusion"just like high waisted pants make your legs look longer, low waisted pants make your torso look longer
>>740493906See you being condescending and assuming I"m Indian is typical boomershit.Also your proof insists on itself, why should I trust your statement with no concrete links or shit? What next, you ask me to search on my own? Ofc that also means I am accepting your concession and lack of effort in this discussion.
>>740494847The fuck are you even on about. Holy shit no one cares about your mental health issues. Also what the fuck do you mean my proof insists on itself? It's literally factually true in all the normal white prosperous countries. At minimum whatever shitty device you're using to post to 4chan right now can probably play up to the 4th generation of consoles.
>>740485812>massive pit stains
>>740451113>I want games to look and sound good! Why do they look the same as a decade ago! such stagnation!>AIEEEEE NO I CAN'T SPARE 50GB NO NO NO I NEED MY AUDIO COMPRESSED TO GARBLED SHITfuck you
>>740495190well she "is" hot lol
>>740494184Ozempic is helping make fat = poor, which is the best way to get Americans to change. It's like teeth. British teeth are a sign of poverty in America since anyone with money gets some form of braces
>>740495386assets are uncompressed to load faster retard nigger, lossless compression is a thing
>>740495145Muh "factually true" with no actual proof. Is this your first day arguing on internet or something?
>>740496042You are posting online, that is the physical proof. If you can reply to me on 4chan right now (which you have, and is proven) then you can play up to gen 4 games on the device you are using to comment. Retard.
>>740482651what videos
>>740451113Peak Lindsay was PEAK
>>74045300110 is not a lot
>>740451113stop buying 512GB drives idiot
>>740496229Still waiting for the proof.
>>740453001>comes to board about all about video games>only plays 10 gamesgrim
>>740451113It was the harddrive makers that lied to software devs. The reasoning was on older HDDs gamea would run slower if they compressed files too much. Thats why Helldivers 2 went from like 120 gb to 25 gb and nothing changed.
>>740479073Not really. There's a few daring girls going back to them but it's hardly mainstream like it used to be.
>>740496656that was not what happened with helldivers 2 at all you tard
>>740496656HD2 was a result of the devs being full on retarded. On a write once optical disc, you can place data where you want if you know what you're doing. The dipshit swedish devs of HD2 thought that if they made multiple copies of the data, they could arrange it on a HDD platter array the same way, and control where the arm would seek to for each read. They were just stupid.HDDs would actually benefit from high compression, as less data would have to actually be read from the platters and it would rely on the CPU more.As for why things aren't compressed, that's general performance boosting. Storage is practically free, so they compress stuff on the Steam depot, it gets decompressed inline as you download it, and you get uncompressed data that can be streamed without the extra CPU overhead on your game.TL;DR You're a faggot and don't know what you're talking about.
>>740451406>I miss when everything was normal :(Things were never normal, you were just oblivious to the extent of their subversion and parasitic behaviour.
>>740478879You pulled this entire list straight out of some TMZ article or some shit faggot. If you really think Kenan is doing well, watch some interview videos. He sold out to SNL Jews when they split him and Kel up and he’s so dead he has an infinitely beyond 1000 cocks stare.>UH UH N NO HE’S SUCCESSFUL ON SNL!Name one of his skits right now…The suite life boys were literally working under Brian Peck when he was released from prison after raping Drake Bell, so no I don’t think they got out unscathed, one probably took the physical cactus dragon dildos while the other watched.
>>740454350>>740465437>retards who didn't even understand what they are responding to repeating some dumb sentence they've heard somewhere else trying to look smartBased retards. And by based I mean cancerous.
>>740455904>WeThe average linux tard right there.
>>740479137>look at me doing the doomposting >am I cool yet?>do I fit inGood job, anon. Very impressive.
>>740494847>gets called Indian>does not parryYikes! You lost the argument right here.
>>740485847>Pirate sites are somehow able to make downloads where the textures are lower qualityI have decided that you misunderstood something somewhere. I could be wrong, but I chose to ignore that possibility, since I prefer you being the dumb one.
>>740489158It's something people from the time when games started being 30gb say, because it used to be often true back then.
>>740451113I will always appreciate Lindsay Lohan. She's the rare millennial who managed to punch above her weight, even considering the nepo-baby aspect and generally mediocre acting. Disney could have ruined her and somehow she came out it relatively unscathed. When she's doing okay, I feel like I'm doing okay.
>>740490367>gaming is made for the rich now (or has it always been?).Look at any other hobby that isn't "living with your parents", you dumb 14-year-old.
>>740498391Yikes!who cares about being called Indian?In 4chan?
