Pro Tip: Using Compact GUI can reduce Nioh from 73gb to 21gb with no performance penalty.

[Constantine]

Title says all.

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Note:
You need to do the compression AFTER moving it to the drive you want - if don't have room on your SSD you still need to make room first.

This is because the compression technique relies on the files being on a steady file location on your hard drive. This also means the size can gradually grow again depending on which files they change during a Steam update - you might want to rerun things again after a couple updates.



With all that said, yeah, it's great with no detectable peformance impact - not every game is helped as much as this one is but it's still a huge overall decrease in my Steam folder size.

[SenMithrarin85]

does verifying the cache cause these shrunk files to be replaced?

[Engels78]

Just the best is to have Steam on 1TB hdd :p I only use SSD for BF1 and sometimes for game I am currently walktrought and which has long loading times...

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Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

does verifying the cache cause these shrunk files to be replaced?

Just checked with Hollow Knight, the size didn't change.

If it had to redownload a file though, the redownloaded file wouldn't be compressed. The rest of the folder/game would still be small though.

Edit:
This is assuming the file was even compressed in the first place - the algorithm doesn't compress every file in the folder.

[Bjørn]

Thanks, I will try this tool, i only got a 500GB ssd and a 4TB external that is super slow
Express16k is the way to go right?
It only saved 7 GB on my Origin folder with BF1 (70GB)

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Originally posted by Bjørn:

Thanks, I will try this tool, i only got a 500GB ssd and a 4TB external that is super slow
Express16k is the way to go right?
It only saved 7 GB on my Origin folder with BF1 (70GB)

Yep, 16k is the way to go.

The space saved depends on how many files can be compressed - it's not a universal compresser, but considering there isn't a performance impact it's amazing.

[Bjørn]

True, it's really good. Nioh went down to 22GB :)