Resistance 2 - Nearly 50GB Big!

[NJ5]

TheRealMafoo said:

NJ5 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

NJ5 said:
@MikeB: Clearly you never heard of the FLAC codec, which (along with other ones) provides LOSSLESS audio compression at ~50% compression rates. If Konami / Ninja Theory / whatever developer was space constrained with Blu-Ray, that is a solution which is well tailored to the Cell and would save a dramatic amount of disc space.

Unless they are already using that codec, and are running out of space.

Then they wouldn't keep saying they're using uncompressed audio.

There are three options here:

 

1. Your right, they should be using them and they are not
2. They are using them, but because the lossless compression sucks compared to good compression, and in the end it's the same audio, for PR reasons they just say uncompressed. More people understand that.
3. They are using every posable CPU cycle they can on the game, and if they optimize to find more, have 100 things they want to add before uncompressing audio reaches the top of the list.

 

my personnel vote is for #3. They got some smart guys on there team that I am sure know about lossless compression. If they are not using it, it's for a reason.

I didn't say they should be using it, that would be arrogant of me. What I said was that they should use it if they're space constrained. So let me add option 4:

4- They don't need to use audio compression because they're not lacking space.

Your option number 3 has a problem. If they were as space constrained as they say, implementing lossless/lossy audio compression
would certainly have big priority. Furthermore, regarding CPU cycles, I heavily doubt they'd be so near 100% usage without having framerate issues in more packed levels. To have a stable game, you need to have a safety gap to 100% processor usage, otherwise you're just asking for trouble. It's not something I can prove, but given that lossless decompression algorithms are so light (many small devices do it without any problem), I think the probability of that being the case is extremely low.

I believe 2 or 4 should be the case.