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ColdStreamtoday at 5:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

When Metal Gear Solid 4 released on Ps3, they used uncompressed audio. I think part of it was just to show off how much storage Blu Ray had.

The game Titanfall on PC has the audio in it twice, compressed and decompressed. The decompressed was for machines with dual core or less so that there was enough overhead to keep the game running.


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4thguytoday at 11:28 AM

The video game Uru shipped with the sounds as ogg files. Post installation they were decompressed to wav files, I'm guessing so that they can squeeze some more performance out of the game

zorkedtoday at 7:24 AM

Why would it play the compressed version if it had the decompressed audio right there though?

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