Mafia 3's System Specs

Seconded, fuck this hardware kikery.

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100% bullshit. Compression is heavy, but decompression is one of the lightest CPU operations you can do. You'd be delimited by disk IO way before the CPU bottlenecks you, and even so, you decompress before loading the decompressed assets into memory, so it wouldn't matter even if your CPU was saturated with the decompression.
In fact, compression usually lets you load things faster, because you're almost always bottlenecked by IO, not CPU use, when it comes to loading assets off storage. Audio can be compressed with better codecs, and video can too, but the issue is that if they're using a lot of floating-point data (as cinematics, models, and maps largely tend to be) and custom image formats, that shit doesn't compress well. Compression would bring you down maybe 10% at the most.

If the space is being eaten by audio, images, and videos, then yes, that's entirely their fault for not using a more efficient format and compressing carefully, if it's all model and stage data, there's very little you can do to efficiently compress it.

Get a load of this fat nerd.

Nope, walking skeleton nerd.

Wonder where the dev hid their BBC porn at or if they added Spanish

I don't get it either, you can usually still see artifacting anyway.

What? Geometry compresses really well depending on the formal.

Mafia? More like niggers

I's all just textures, audio, and video files, though. You know, stuff that compresses extremely well.

one hell of an anti piracy measure

Only if the data is already in an inefficient form, like some ascii model format. Piles of floating point values don't compress very well unless you have lots of the same value repeating over and over again.

More like an anti consumer measure, since even with Wolfenstein The New Order taking up so much space pirates managed to make the filesize smaller

its a port from consoles i guess

ha, i didn't hear about that. i used an even more old fashioned version of piracy on wolfenstein and borrowed a console version.

it was ok

It had some good moments, but the huge file size was really annoying, same thing happened with The Evil WIthin too.

For modern games, it's mostly megatexture shit.

Carmack is a fucking faggot.

There's a chance you're baiting, but on the offchance you aren't:

Fallout 4 is the same engine as Skyrim. It does not use megatextures. Only idtech uses megatextures.

WE

Jesus fucking Christ this needs to stop. I'm predicting a shit port and garbage frames no matter how good your port is, pretty much like every PC port in the last ten years.

Oh well, I didn't really want to play a game called MAFIA where you play as some stupid gangbanging nigger anyway.

It uses texture streaming and other stuff that appears in megatexture technology. It's not called megatexture, but the technique is similar.

WILL

Meant how good your PC is, my bad.

I'm not gonna waste my bandwidth

I loaded up F4 on a toaster. Would pause every 2 secs. Worked out it was all these giant fuckin textures.
Visual quality wasn't that different but it ran smooth as butter. Idiots could've just given me a 1gb texture pack instead of all this fucking around.

the game is clearly developed by millenials

what the hell did you expect?

Your taste in Bond aside…

that's a hell of a required PC for a shit game.

Here's your official Microsoft reply.

It is easy to torrent a 50Gb file. Done it before.

If you're connected with 50 seeders who all have seedboxes or are on fibre it can match Steam servers.

Do you even gain anything by being a disdainful shit towards your audience

If he acts like a big enough faggot, the social justice fairy will visit him at night and leave a fair-trade fedora under his pillow.

He makes pete hines looks like fucking santa claus in comparison.

It's hardly optimisation to have your game not run like ass. Those specs scream constant world loading lag and game slowdown over time.

And then the left wonders why we routinely round them up and line them against a wall.

Repackages shave like 20gigs off of the download so the only one getting fucked here is the consumer.