Respawn Explains The 48 GB PC Install Size

The uncompressed audio is to blame the big Titanfall install size on PC.

Respawn Entertainment explained that Titanfall's 48 GB install size on PC is so the game can run better on low-spec machines.

"Yeah, basically when you download the game or the disc itself, it's a lot smaller than that," Baker replied when asked about the PC version's 48GB install.

"We have audio we either download or install from the disc, then we uncompress it. We probably could have had audio decompress off disc but we were a little worried about min spec and the fact that a two-core machine would dedicate a huge chunk of one core to just decompressing audio."

"So... it's almost all audio... On a higher PC it wouldn't be an issue. On a medium or moderate PC, it wouldn't be an issue, it's that on a two-core [machine] with where our min spec is, we couldn't dedicate those resources to audio."

Titanfall's minimum system requirements are quite modest when compared to many other games:

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1
• Processor: AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
• RAM: 4GB 512MB VRAM
• Graphics card: Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT