Titanfall Download Size
So how big is the actual download? It is compressed and the download size is much smaller. My titanfall folder is 49.9 GB.
The sequel further expands on the concepts of the first game as players can expect fast movement along with the ability to pilot giant mechs called Titans. The second installment adds new game modes, Titans, maneuverability options as well as a single player campaign (a first for the series). Titanfall 2 is coming out on the 28th of October in the North American region for the PlayStation 4 in addition to the PC and Xbox One. The original game did not came out for Sony’s current-gen console, so the second title will be the first for PlayStation-only gamers. If you want to upgrade the PS4 HDD for Titanfall 2, we suggest taking a look at the Storite DIY 2.0TB Hard Drive Upgrade Bundle for PlayStation 4 with as the bundle has all the necessary tools.
Titanfall is finally out on the Xbox One and PC, and it’s getting a lot of. Unfortunately, PC gamers are noticing that the size of the Origin installation is a whopping 48GB. Over on the Xbox One, the installation is only about 20GB. So, why the disparity in size — is it the high-res textures? A lack of optimization? No, it’s all thanks to roughly 35GB of uncompressed audio.
Respawn Entertainment’s Richard Baker sat down with Eurogamer, and explained why PC gamers are burdened with the. Fundamentally, the decision to stick with uncompressed audio on the PC comes down to sheer processing power. The game’s minimum CPU requirement is a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and that simply isn’t enough horsepower to run the game and decompress audio at the same time. Baker explains that even modest quad-core machines wouldn’t have a problem decompressing the audio on the fly, but clearly the company is focused on running on as many machines as possible.
While it’s nice to see major games like support older hardware, it’s absolutely bonkers that people with higher-quality machines have to pay the price for that. For those of us installing our games on relatively small solid state drives for performance reasons, 48GB seems completely outrageous. Hopefully, the developers will see fit to patch in a compressed/uncompressed toggle in the installation wizard in the near future. That way, could choose between raw performance and overall disk usage. Reportedly, the download size of Titanfall is 16.39GB while the PC version is a.
Once installed, the PC version expands to over twice its original size, but the Xbox One remains relatively small. A 21GB download is much easier to swallow than 48GB, but it’s still uncomfortably large for those of us with monthly bandwidth caps.
Image credit: This is a perfect example of how games are growing too fast for our. Akamai’s state of the internet report from Q3 2013 shows that the average connection speed in the US is a mere 9.8Mbps down. Downloading a 21GB game over an average connection will take nearly five hours to complete. The global average is only 3.6Mbps, so the less fortunate among us will need upwards of 13 hours to download the PC version of Titanfall. If it’s faster to drive to the local GameStop and buy a disc, why even bother with digital distribution in the first place?
Games are growing too fast, so it seems we’re stuck with physical media for the foreseeable future. Blame it on the reporting of performance and hardware many games send to the publishers, and the fact that many people are still running old rigs from pre-2008. Since most games target the counsels, and those counsels use second-gen hardware when released, you don’t need to keep lock-step with current gen pc hardware. Besides, most people can’t afford to buy new systems every 1-3 years anymore, even if they wanted to.
The vast majority of pc gamers don’t upgrade their hardware until a few games are released that look bad or stutter on their current systems. No you need exactly 1 core to dedicate to the audio. Since the article indicates the issue is with dual core machines, its indicative that the game requires at least 2 cores for all its other processing not accounting for the audio portion.
Its basically the issue that spawned the need for dedicated sound cards with hardware acceleration, that the industry then dropped in favor of software. Which is due in part to the proliferation of multi-core CPUs, or at least the ideology behind it. Game devs are finally attempting to make proper use of SMP, which is the only positive thing to come from this generation of consoles. This issue is a by product of trying to reach the lowest common denominator. The “amazing” PS4 has only been reported to have sold 6 million copies so far, and that is considered to be a very fast adoption rate. Most games are usually bought by less than a third of the total console population.
Even if 1/2 of the users buy the game, it would require 10 million consoles sold to meet this number. I doubt that the Devs were expecting to sell 5 million copies on the X1 alone. This discussion turns into an “Xbox One sux. Boo it and everything about it.” conversation.
You have no clue what you are talking about. There aren’t 16 to 128 PCM streams in buffers and the CPU mixing those in realtime.
No game does that. The audio tracks are pre-mixed.
Any audio 3D spatial algorithm works using the pre-mixed audio channels in realtime with minimal CPU use. At most small samples worth a bunch of seconds can be loaded in buffers in realtime with added effects. Those samples are always delivered in lossy compressed format and all the processing is done in realtime. No game uses 30GB of PCM audio data. No game is delivered with 50 to 200 hours worth of music or audio samples either.
The Raspberry Pi SoC uses a Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU: Even integrated Intel GPUs have similar functions. Low end CPUs using SSE/SSE2 only could do the same. Anyway the IPC is higher on Intel PCs than on the Raspberry Pi which is a low consumption device.
Realtime audio decoding has been a non issue for many years already anyway. If the hardware can decode 720p or 1080p H.264, VC-1 video streams in realtime then it surely can decode even AC3 5.1 audio. Any PC able to decode a BluRay with less than 20% overall CPU use, so even quite old and low end PCs, has no issues at decoding any audio streams in realtime, with no need to use huge uncompressed PCM audio files. I agree with half of what you have said. You are correct – available persistent storage space has been trending upward for years. That said, you missed another critical trend in the gaming PCs – the size of available storage space on the drive on which gaming apps are installed has decreased.significantly. in the last several years.
Reasonably priced SSDs. Many PC gamers now use an SSD for their primary drive, which typically contains the OS and apps. They.want. the gaming app installed on that SSD for fast performance, quick map loads, etc.
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That SSD is probably either 128 or 256 GB on most gaming PCs built in the last two years. 48 GB is a.huge.
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chunk of that spaceespecially when it is for.one. gamewhich probably plans on adding even more files over time. Season pass anyone?
Most of us are also rocking something a hell of lot more capable than an Intel Core 2 Duo. My PC is two years-old, yet even it has an auto-overclocked hyper-threaded quad core CPU. Should I and others really need to lose an.extra.
25 or so GB of SSD space when our CPUs can handle compressed audio? Frankly, it seems like Respawn was just plain lazy. If they wanted to support such anemic CPUs to rake a couple more bucks, rather than screw all of us with SSDs, they could have easily created an installer that looks at the specs of your PC during installation and makes the call as to whether or not the audio needs to be installed uncompressed. But they couldn’t be bothered, because that would have taken perhaps a couple hundred hours of development and test timeand they couldn’t afford that investment since they will probably only make a billion or so dollars on this game. It’s a crude anti-piracy measure, but sadly tech sites are all pay-for-play, and ‘honesty’ for a tech ‘journalist’ means occasionally respecting the ownership labels in the communal office fridge, and nothing more.
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Still, should anyone be surprised at highly disreputable and disrespectful behaviour from the people behind the original COD franchise. It gets worse. The game industry is so moronic, people will think the PC version is ‘better’ simply because of the obscene waste of space, and so some publishers will explore any way to artificiality inflate the size of their game install, because “bigger is better”. This ‘meme’ will bounce back onto the new consoles, where HDD storage is far more limited.
The PS3 saw a similar tactic to justify using the entire capacity of a Bluray disk that held a game. Of course, in this case, it wasn’t to the disadvantage of the user to own a Bluray full of completely unnecessary uncompressed files. When anyone chooses to lie to you, they are showing you an extreme amount of disrespect.
If you choose to believe the lies, you have earned that disrespect. Jesus, these guys have never heard of ADPCM?
– NeoGeo used ADPCM – SNES used ADPCM – PSX used ADPCM – PS2 used ADPCM – NDS could play ADPCM – The XBOX360 had an ADPCM decoder in the south bridge. ADPCM was invented before the Atari 2600 came out, and will always be used because uncompressed audio is two big, and OGG and similar formats involving large MDCTs are too slow. ADPCM is the perfect balance. It takes 4 times less space that raw data and decodes almost as fast as it takes to do the mixing+resampling afterwards. You’d think they could spare more CPU for this but you’d be wrong: audio always gets shafted in terms of CPU time and development resources, it’s just not politically feasible in a game company to do something better.