PC version Call of Duty: Modern Warfare requires (required HDD Space: 175 GB)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/10/2019 08:42 AM | source: | 76 comment(s)

We've been annoyed for years now that game installations get larger and larger. Well, a new record is about to be set, the PC version Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is listed at a 175 GB storage requirement.

We'd love to learn as to why that much storage space is needed. The required 175GB is listed under both the minimum and recommended system requirements on Battle.net

Minimum Requirements

Operating System: Windows® 7 64-bit (SP1) or Windows® 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7950 – DirectX 12.0 compatible system
Memory: 8GB RAM
Storage: 175 GB available hard drive space
Internet: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended Requirements

Operating System:Windows® 10 64-bit latest update
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen™ R5 1600X
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon™ R9 390 / AMD Radeon™ RX 580 – DirectX 12.0 compatible system
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Storage: 175 GB available hard drive space
Internet: Broadband Internet connection

In the previous releases you'd already look at a massive (Infinite Warfare) had 70 GB. I mean I can understand an HD Texture pack needing some more storage, but this is exorbitant. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be released on October 25.

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cryohellinc
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#5718855 Posted on: 10/10/2019 08:43 AM

I still have somewhere a 5-year-old 60gig SSD. It's quietly crying in a corner.

Hyderz
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#5718861 Posted on: 10/10/2019 08:59 AM

175gb thats 34% of my 512gb ssd.... bloody hell

nizzen
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#5718862 Posted on: 10/10/2019 09:01 AM

No problem with cheap ssd's and 500Mbit internet

Cheaper and bigger storage is out every year. Can't see the "problem"

Thank god the world is going forward. I don't miss floppydrive...

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#5718864 Posted on: 10/10/2019 09:09 AM

I'd be really curious to know what actually makes up that data. Textures? Levels? DRM?

Also, how does this fare with a console? Where you have 500GB space, 1TB maybe, and you can install maybe two or three games besides this? That's... well...

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#5718871 Posted on: 10/10/2019 09:31 AM

Hitman 2 150gb.

XenthorX
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#5718880 Posted on: 10/10/2019 09:49 AM

I'd be really curious to know what actually makes up that data. Textures? Levels? DRM?

Also, how does this fare with a console? Where you have 500GB space, 1TB maybe, and you can install maybe two or three games besides this? That's... well...

1) Textures
2) Textures
3) Textures
4) Animation data ?

The more uniquely textured item you have, with the higher their respective resolutions, the more space it'll take.
With Photogrammetry getting involved you end up with more and more object using their own set of textures that artists didn't have to create (and couldn't pack together and re-use on several 3D object as they are object specific).

For instance, while you could create a wonderful 3D 'in-construction wood' house model in the modeling software of your choice, and then 'texture it' by creating a tileable wood material and apply it on the whole house, you could also use photogrammetry on real world wood beams and floor assets from a construction site, which would all be unique with a level of detail you would have spent countless hours to reach if you were to model, but by being unique and not procedural tileable assets they'll take much more texture space/data.

fantaskarsef
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#5718883 Posted on: 10/10/2019 09:54 AM

1) Textures
2) Textures
3) Textures

The more uniquely textured item you have, with the higher their respective resolutions, the more space it'll take.
With Photogrammetry getting involved you end up with more and more object using their own set of textures that artists didn't have to create (and couldn't pack together and re-use on several 3D object as they are object specific).

Then we need better compression algorythms. Or bigger discs for cheaper prices. No wonder they're going for 1TB SSDs like it's the first GB HDD back in the day, everybody needs one.

XenthorX
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#5718885 Posted on: 10/10/2019 10:01 AM

I added

4) Animation data ?

To the list ^^. But indeed compression is a never ending active research field ! Over the last couple of iteration of Unreal Engine there's been a bunch of animation compression improvements which were really noticeable in both disk space taken and original animation data fidelity.

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#5718970 Posted on: 10/10/2019 12:25 PM

This is getting out of hand, they should make an add-on pack for 4k textures: I bet those are at least half the game size.

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#5718986 Posted on: 10/10/2019 12:49 PM

4K texture packs should be a seperate dlc, like Fallout and others do it. Keep it reasonable for people who do not game in 4K.
On the other hand this neat trick ups the internetprovider income because people will pass their monthly limits with ease. Stop these mafia practices.
Sell it on memory cards instead.

Texter
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