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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:08PM (#46137831)
> 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.

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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by Doxin on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:43AM (#46159086)
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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