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The Unreal Locomotive engine 5 demo is a massive 100GB

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IT's no mystical game install sizes have been growing steadily over the years but, for the adjacent propagation of games, we might need a hatful more storage space if we want to keep up.

The Unreal Engine 5 welcome video treated us to a demonstrate of a bunch of unagitated features set to come with the azoic 2022 set up. Just development tools and stunning vistas comparable those shown come at a heavy cost, and warehousing is one of those areas that's going to be beaten down the hardest.

Game install sizes already take the mickey, with much real mighty storage hogs around, and just the demo sample distribution jut out for UE5, Valley of the Ancient, is 100GB unsocial. That's non including the 10GB for the locomotive itself.

With the ability to directly import assets "comprised of millions of polygons—anything from ZBrush sculpts to photogrammetry scans," and a host of other super intensive features, its fair to say the next waving of games are expiration to eat deep into that loved SSD storage blank space.

Back when Unreal Engine 5 was first announced, we spoke to close to developers almost their thoughts connected the engine and one of the prevailing topics that came sprouted was, you guessed it, install sizes.

"The only drawback I see is exponentially augmentative the instal size of the mettlesome," Stephen Bang of Nightdive Studios says, "which even nowadays is nearing 100GB or more for some titles."

Prepare yourselves—we'Ra either going to need racks upon racks of SSDs, or memory board solutions are going to have to catch up pretty darn fast.

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