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Developers counter that decompressing textures on-the-fly consumes CPU cycles that could otherwise cause stutter. By shipping less-compressed assets, Ragnarök achieves the “butter-smooth 60fps” praised in PC benchmarks. The size is a performance trade-off, not an oversight.
: This is more than double the PS5 version's size, which launched at approximately God Of War Ragnarok Pc Download Size
On September 19, 2024, Santa Monica Studio and Jetpack Interactive released God of War Ragnarök on PC. Prior to launch, one of the most searched metrics was not system requirements for RAM or CPU, but the literal storage footprint: According to official system requirements published by Sony, the required storage space is 175 GB for the base game (excluding potential day-one patches). This paper argues that this figure is not arbitrary but a direct consequence of modern asset production pipelines, platform expectations, and a deliberate developer trade-off between compression and performance. : This is more than double the PS5