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		Sohcahtoa82 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to... > I really want to know though, what is all that data!? Textures? Yeah. A single 4096x4096 texture is 16 megapixels. At 8 bits per channel with potentially 4 channels, that's 64 MB for a single texture uncompressed.

Doxin 4 days ago [–]

But who in their right mind is storing textures uncompressed? and that still fits over two thousand 4k textures in a 130GiB game. Are there really that many things you'd look at close enough to fill a whole screen in a game?

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