Why is this game so big in filesize

[Admiral Latias]

i think 78gb is way too much to download, who would or would not download it being that big

[Samael]

Everyone who is playing downloaded it. Only people with low speed internet connection or people using their mobile plan to download this game will have a problem.

And 78GB is big yes but not unique. Lots of games takes around this size or even more.

[Admiral Latias]

i too have the game but downloading only 330kbps max is gonna take months

[Samael]

You do 1.1GB an hour. Its gonna take you approx 70 hours to download this.

[Kleerex]

Megatextures at fault here.

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Read one of the other 500 threads about exactly this.

[🅱🅾🆁🅶]

the game size is actually great.

The game is heavily compressed. The game uncompressed would easily be over 3 Terrabytes in size, no exaggeration. It has multiple megatextures , these are giant textures that cover an entire map and they each are 256GB in size... not to mention the games audio is lossless.

But they did a great job in the game size compression. To squeeze terabytes of data down to only 78GB without performance issues from unpacking on the fly , is a freaking miracle.

But I guess yeah its annoying for people with slower Internet connections. But for most it's no issue i think. Too me under 30 mins to download on my previous connection which was fibre optik 150 down and 150 up. Now I have 1terrabyte down and 150up fibre optikea connection. Takes me even less time lol.

[Admiral Latias]

ive got 5gb of 66.4gb downloaded so far and way more to go

[Nerdmigo]

Originally posted by 🅱🅾🆁🅶:

the game size is actually great.

The game is heavily compressed. The game uncompressed would easily be over 3 Terrabytes in size, no exaggeration. It has multiple megatextures , these are giant textures that cover an entire map and they each are 256GB in size... not to mention the games audio is lossless.

But they did a great job in the game size compression. To squeeze terabytes of data down to only 78GB without performance issues from unpacking on the fly , is a freaking miracle.

But I guess yeah its annoying for people with slower Internet connections. But for most it's no issue i think. Too me under 30 mins to download on my previous connection which was fibre optik 150 down and 150 up. Now I have 1terrabyte down and 150up fibre optikea connection. Takes me even less time lol.

Yep its IdTech5 and the Megatextures technology as seen in Rage
But 3 Terrabytes sounds a bit much, where do you get that info?

[Chaz]

Originally posted by retroChris:

Originally posted by 🅱🅾🆁🅶:

the game size is actually great.

The game is heavily compressed. The game uncompressed would easily be over 3 Terrabytes in size, no exaggeration. It has multiple megatextures , these are giant textures that cover an entire map and they each are 256GB in size... not to mention the games audio is lossless.

But they did a great job in the game size compression. To squeeze terabytes of data down to only 78GB without performance issues from unpacking on the fly , is a freaking miracle.

But I guess yeah its annoying for people with slower Internet connections. But for most it's no issue i think. Too me under 30 mins to download on my previous connection which was fibre optik 150 down and 150 up. Now I have 1terrabyte down and 150up fibre optikea connection. Takes me even less time lol.

Yep its IdTech5 and the Megatextures technology as seen in Rage
But 3 Terrabytes sounds a bit much, where do you get that info?

Doom is using ID tech 6.

[Nerdmigo]

Originally posted by Chaz:

Originally posted by retroChris:

Yep its IdTech5 and the Megatextures technology as seen in Rage
But 3 Terrabytes sounds a bit much, where do you get that info?

Doom is using ID tech 6.

Yep you are right

[🅱🅾🆁🅶]

Originally posted by retroChris:

Originally posted by 🅱🅾🆁🅶:

the game size is actually great.

The game is heavily compressed. The game uncompressed would easily be over 3 Terrabytes in size, no exaggeration. It has multiple megatextures , these are giant textures that cover an entire map and they each are 256GB in size... not to mention the games audio is lossless.

But they did a great job in the game size compression. To squeeze terabytes of data down to only 78GB without performance issues from unpacking on the fly , is a freaking miracle.

But I guess yeah its annoying for people with slower Internet connections. But for most it's no issue i think. Too me under 30 mins to download on my previous connection which was fibre optik 150 down and 150 up. Now I have 1terrabyte down and 150up fibre optikea connection. Takes me even less time lol.

Yep its IdTech5 and the Megatextures technology as seen in Rage
But 3 Terrabytes sounds a bit much, where do you get that info?

RAGE uncompressed was just over 1 Terrabyte as confirmed by idtech lead developer John Carmack. DOOM contains much larger assets and higher resolution megatextures (16k x 8k . And again each being 256gb in size. Thats textures alone, sounds, shadows, actual assets are a different story) than Rage so it's safe to assume it's at least 3 TB uncompressed.

I think it could be even bigger.

[Nerdmigo]

Originally posted by 🅱🅾🆁🅶:

Originally posted by retroChris:

Yep its IdTech5 and the Megatextures technology as seen in Rage
But 3 Terrabytes sounds a bit much, where do you get that info?

RAGE uncompressed was just over 1 Terrabyte as confirmed by idtech lead developer John Carmack. DOOM contains much larger assets and higher resolution megatextures (16k x 8k . And again each being 256gb in size. Thats textures alone, sounds, shadows, actual assets are a different story) than Rage so it's safe to assume it's at least 3 TB uncompressed.

I think it could be even bigger.

I see. Well that means probably that the engine uncompresses the textures during loading or on the fly.. (but probably as new areas load) But it doesnt mean the game takes that much space on the disk, if that was the question. What i am hoping is that this tech is developed further for Doom2 and i hope other devs use the engine too. Id should make games for ..forever..

[W3RN3R]

Lucky me, i get around 11Mb/s, 330kbps is not that bad, i used to get 100kbps with my previous ISP.

[Samael]

11Mb/s. 4.95GB an hour. Still over 10+ hours to download this game. Better than 330KBps.

At 330KBps its like 65 hours.

[Admiral Latias]

14gb in already in 14 hours