Backing up pc games?

[astor]

I was looking at a PC game and couldn't help but wonder how they get 7+ gigs on a dvd, and yet, a quick google search says that compressing pc games can't be done. Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

[akratos]

dual layer?

 

[astor]

No, the pc games i by are shiny on one side, ink and stickers on the other.

 

[jay_l_a]

>>quick google search says that compressing pc games can't be done

Any (uncompressed) data can be compressed.

 

[hawk56013]

No, the pc games i by are shiny on one side, ink and stickers on the other.

Dual layer doesn't mean on both sides, from my understanding, dual-layer is 2 layers stacked on top of each other read from only one side of the disc. (someone please correct me if i'm wrong.) Therefore the disk can have the shiny side and the usual label on the other.

 

[hawk56013]

No, the pc games i by are shiny on one side, ink and stickers on the other.

Dual layer doesn't mean on both sides, from my understanding, dual-layer is 2 layers stacked on top of each other read from only one side of the disc. (someone please correct me if i'm wrong.) Therefore the disk can have the shiny side and the usual label on the other.