Call of Duty: Vanguard to Have 'Significantly' Smaller Install Size on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC - News

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Publisher Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games announced Call of Duty: Vanguard on the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC will have a "significantly" smaller install size thanks to new on-demand texture streaming technology. The new technology is expected to save 30 percent to 50 percent of storage space on the next-generation console and on PC.

"Good news for hard drives everywhere: Vanguard’s install size at launch will be significantly below previous Call Of Duty releases," said the developers via Twitter. "New on-demand texture streaming tech expected to save up to 30%-50%+ on next-gen console and PC hard drive disk space."

Call of Duty: Vanguard will launch on Friday, November 5 for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.net.

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VAMatt (on 27 October 2021)

That's pretty spectacular, especially for a franchise notorious for eating storage space.

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Pemalite (on 27 October 2021)

That texture data has to come from somewhere... Is it going to be streamed from the cloud or optical disk? How are internet connections going to keep up with 10's of Gigabytes worth of data?

Or are they doing their own compression algorithms and decompressing on a per-needs basis?

I don't care about space, but I do want the option of having the entire experience installed if the data is streamed from the web.

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scrapking Pemalite (on 30 October 2021)

It might be that the data is being stored and streamed in a more highly compressed form than normal from the SSD/HDD, The more highly compressed the data, the smaller the installation, but the more CPU cycles you use up in decompression. So it's a trade-off.

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Pemalite scrapking (on 31 October 2021)

The next gen consoles have dedicated hardware decompression blocks.

The PC has a ton more CPU available...

This doesn't tell me what they are using though, just hypothesis at this point.

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scrapking Pemalite (on 31 October 2021)

For sure they have dedicated decompression. And this might reflect Activision utilizing that more than they had in the past, and perhaps even implementing custom in-software solutions for last-gen systems that mimic them (with the concurrent CPU performance hit).

For sure we don't know, but it's at least a semi-reasonable theory. :)

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NobleTeam360 (on 27 October 2021)

Sounds good on the surface but we'll see how big the game file balloons after a year or two.

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