ELi5: how does a 75GB game become ‘playable’ after only having downloaded 20GB?

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How do developers do this? Does it just mean the first few levels have been downloaded? What about open world style games? How do they know which bits you will/won’t interact with and what happens if you get to a part that isn’t yet downloaded?

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Think of it this way, if a game has 10 lvs how many levels do you need downloaded to start playing the game? The answer is only 1 technically.

You don’t need all of a games content downloaded to play it.

With modern games most of the download is textures so if you can play the game at a lower graphics quality then you can run the game without downloading a significant portion of it.

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