alt Hacker News>The files would just be compressed for distribution and decompressed on download
All Steam downloads are automatically compressed. It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio.
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duskwuff • yesterday at 9:21 PM
> The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio.
Even when Titanfall 2 was released in 2016, I don't think that was meaningfully the case. Audio compression formats have been tuned heavily for efficient playback.
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justsomehnguy • today at 1:07 AM
> The point is that playback of uncompressed audio
Bullshit. This is not a problem since 2003.
And nobody forbids you to actually decompress your compressed audio when you are loading the assets from the disk.
> All Steam downloads are automatically compressed.
Titanfall wasn't on steam when it launched.
> It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio.
The person that I replied to (not you) claimed "They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconvenient for pirates to distribute."