Question on Computer Games

[scooby]

Has any one else noticed that when you go into the sound folder of a computer game, that it has sound files that you havennever heard, and never will hear in the game? It seems that they are just there to take up memory....I've noticed that with quite a few games, Ghost Recon, Rogue Spear, Spec Ops 2: Green Berets, just to name a couple....but why are these sound files here?? i really dont get it

[Kratzer]

huh?

I think most sounds ARE used, if nothing else, then as ambient background noise.

[AKSWulfe]

There's sounds that don't get used because they may only be used once or under very rare occasions... but they don't take up any memory until they are loaded into memory to be used. Otherwise they take up about 40kb on your hard drive... not much of a loss of hard drive space. (Which is not memory)
-SW