make sure to use compactgui, brought my 33 gbyte of ffx remastered, to 4gbytes. yes 4 gbytes for the entire game and it's playable no loss of performance

[FinalBoss]

compactgui is a already on windows10, all the gui does is make it easy to use. this is not compression like 7zip or rar. you use this on your files to and you can still play the game and use it.

brought the entire file size down to 4 gigabytes. 0 performance hit. do this, no reason not to.

[rojimboo]

Maybe if you bought the game, you would know wtf you are talking about.

[Plex]

There is no need for tools. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-ntfs-compression-windows-10

[Plex]

I compressed it, took almost about 30 minutes and I gained nothing on space...
https://i.imgur.com/3qqS8ij.jpg

So don't do it. Not worth it.

[Aydrian]

Originally posted by Plex:

I compressed it, took almost about 30 minutes and I gained nothing on space...
https://i.imgur.com/3qqS8ij.jpg

So don't do it. Not worth it.

So worth it. I did this a while back and it dropped the game down to around 4gb. You did something wrong.

[Plex]

All I do is using Windows's own NTFS compression. I don't know how you can go wrong with that.
When I open one of the VBF files in a hexeditor I don't see any data that could be compressed, everything looks cluttered up, almost like the files are already compressed or encrypted.

[FinalBoss]

Originally posted by Plex:

There is no need for tools. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-ntfs-compression-windows-10

as I said, it's a gui, i made this very clear. learn to comprehend.

[FinalBoss]

Originally posted by Plex:

I compressed it, took almost about 30 minutes and I gained nothing on space...
https://i.imgur.com/3qqS8ij.jpg

So don't do it. Not worth it.

bro... facepalm.... just stop using a computer.

[cerinthus]

Originally posted by Plex:

I compressed it, took almost about 30 minutes and I gained nothing on space...
https://i.imgur.com/3qqS8ij.jpg

So don't do it. Not worth it.

WIndows 10 uses different compression algorithms than previous versions. But the default algorithm is not ideal for compressing games. Just doing it from folder properties isn't going to get you decent results. Neither is running compact without specifying /EXE /<algorithm>

It drops it to about 4.8 gigs. You can get it lower if you use LZX, but with diminishing returns for a lot longer time.

Assuming you're on a Windows 10 PC you can skip the GUI with

compact /C /EXE /XPRESS16K /s:"<game path>" /i /Q

from the command prompt

If your drive is already compressed you'll want to uncompress the folder first (the default algorithm assumes frequent read/write. You only need frequent read.)

compact /u /s:"<game path>" /i /Q /F

[Plex]

I should do this with Ark. its taking up 130GB for me uncompressed lol