Can someone please explain to me how we went from a game (Horizon 4) that hardly used much data while playing online to a game that uses ±300mb per hour!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!!
The only thing I can think of causing that excessive data usage is higher resolution liveries, and caching liveries for more players since the lobbies are bigger. But that’s still a lot of data.
If for instance a livery is stored in a single 4K texture with DXT compression and no further data compression, that should take up no more than about 8 MB. I don’t know if this is the case (they may use a completely different resolution and compression method, and DXT doesn’t look that great). The rest of the car data (color, upgrades, tuning) should take no more than a few dozen kB. If you encounter 30 new player cars with liveries over the course of an hour, it might add up. But it still seems a bit weird.
How do you know this, out of interest? Not saying you’re wrong, but I’m curious what it’s doing, if you’re saying it’s very different to FH4.
some people are still on limited data, what is this soviet russia 1999 or he is on LTE?
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Many places in the world (including the non-ex-Soviet, such as umm… the USA) have large areas with no unlimited data access. Many of these places use the mobile network or a satellite network. Not all mobile networks and satellite networks are unlimited. City infrastructure doesn’t always extend to the most rural and remote locations. Some people even live in those rural and remote places. And some of those people like to play games.
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If this is legit and if the problem is due to high resolution liveries/images/textures then there really should be a setting that can be turned off for players negatively impacted by this.
A good example of such a setting is COD warzone.
I doubt they care about this issue though. I’ve heard more serious reports from PC users claiming the game is using more resources then it should. And Xbox users claiming how insanely hot the xsx gets when running the game. I can confirm the latter as my xsx gets extremely hot and the hot air it pumps out is similar to a fan heater running on low to medium.
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There is a setting, at least there was in FH4 and I assume there still is, to not show other players’ liveries. I assume if you select that then it doesn’t download them, but I haven’t tested it.
Yes comrade I can confirm here in the USSA we do have data caps on most of our sub par internet packages. Vamos Brandon!
This explains the usage warning I got from my cable provider. (mid month!)
Guess I’m officially out of the game if it’s going to cause me an overage.
Thanks for brining it up. I wondered what we had been doing differently with our usage.
I really only play FH5 but after getting notified for using up all my data… I gotta delete this game. Such a shame🤷♂️