Apologies for making another Hitman thread, but I thought this deserved special attention. The mad lads and ladies at IOI continue to outdo themselves.
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"With all content installed (including the locations from H1+H2), we're expecting Hitman 3 to clock in at approximately 60-70 GB and we're really happy with that," IO Interactive's chief technology officer Maurizo De Pascale told me over email.
Even without the older games bundled in, Hitman 3 is a leaner install than IO has managed to pull off with its last two games. As De Pascale explained to me, the answer is simple: More compression. But why Hitman 3's compression is so effective, and why they didn't use the same techniques last time, is where it gets more complicated (and more interesting).
Hitman 3 uses a technique called LZ4 compression that's been around for about a decade. Almost everything in the game runs through this compression algorithm, which is especially efficient.
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How Hitman 3's devs shrank the entire trilogy install size by over 80GB
As most PC game installs get more and more bloated, Hitman 3 cut its file size in half.
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