why are some disks short install rest online

Hi, I wish I had a firm answer, having grabbed BO4 a few days ago I asked myself the same question, 472Mb from disc and 60+ GB download. It does make you question just what is on the discs, not a lot by the look of it. Maybe it's a ploy to get everyone to
buy digital who knows.

I do pretty much purchase all my games as digital downloads so it's not such a big deal for me anyway, not so much if you're a person who prefers discs as you'd expect the disc to actually have something on it.

Hi,

Let me try to explain. If you bought the disc at launch or not longer after, the install would have occurred completely from the disc. There may have been an additional update, but the vast majority of the game would, originally, have been a disc install.

Post launch, the developer has looked at the performance of the game and improved it. Unfortunately, the performance increase meant that the texture and geometry data already installed had to be replaced by new updated data. This is also why, when you
install this game now from disc, only a small part of the game is installed from the disc, and the rest is online.

Actual game code for most games is quite small. The majority of modern game installs are textures and audio.

The same is true for Black Ops 2. When Halo MCC was enhanced for the Xbox One X, the developer didn't just up the resolution to 4K they improved the graphics textures. Unfortunately, if you upgrade the textures, these new textures need to be downloaded.
So, even though I had Halo MCC already installed on my One X, the enhanced patch weighed in at 76GB!

Fallout 76's post release major patch weighed in at around 50GB. If you installed from disc, this data would be over-written by the new update.

Hope that made sense.

Hi there,

This is quite simple, It due to patches/hotfixes, dlc, Sync data like leader boards and others that might be required to sync/play with other players. Example there is some that require Sync data for leader boards and to play online.

(Some cd models have the standard setting to play online but not the full set up is on the disc.) so it requires to download the current model/Version that is on the game multi player server data.

Hope that answers both your questions

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Yeah, it looks nice. Pity about the rest of the game.

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An hour in, eh? You're almost. For a game with 3 discs it sure is short. It's the pretty engine I suppose.

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1 of the disks is for the online multiplayer. IThe 2 disks for campaign is because of the graphics for sure.

when u install a game it doesnt copy 100% of the disk onto the hard drive

iirc the entire video pation of the disk is ignored when you install it.

basically the entire start up sequence requires the disk, after it started running though the disk stopps spinning as the rest is on the HDD