Compress the game files 5x using windows lzx compression!

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

The game compresses better than most, and still runs.
use command
compact /c /s /a /i /F /exe:lzx *
at the command line in the game directory.

"4468 files within 136 directories were compressed.
18,165,289,937 total bytes of data are stored in 3,400,232,379 bytes.
The compression ratio is 5.3 to 1."

This is a newer file system compression only found on windows 10, so don't tru it on previous versions of windows, regular ntfs compression is the fall back.

Just don't be dumb and compress your windows directory, you won't be able to boot after that.

[Pure Hostility]

Does it affect loading speeds or other crap?

[Doc October]

Are there any actual advantages to doing this besides it using up less space?

[Xas]

Interesting, but when update comes.
You will have trouble.

Only suitable if you aren't gonna touch the files no more except running.

Don't get me wrong, the compression is a good thing. Just skeptical.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Pure Hostility původně napsal:

Does it affect loading speeds or other crap?

Depends on your system, lzx is now multithreaded, and people have plenty of spare cores, in theory loads can be faster if your processor is fast enough as more data is effectively read off the drive.

and yes, after updates you can run it again, but generally games only update certain directories or files, you can look at the file modified dates and consider whether its worth it, sometimes the update doesnt affect size much at all.

If it doesn't work for you simply copy the files some where else and back, the compression won't survive from what I remember, its not the same as ntfs compression as stated.