Compressed game installers

[Charlie]

Why doesn't Steam compress the game installers, doing this would save time on downloading the game and Valve would save money because they wouldn't have to spend so much on storage. On Torrent sites you will see games under what they call a 'repack' and it drastically reduces the size of the game installer.

I decided to see what I could compress my Skyrim game folder and it went from 12GB to 5GB. This could work by you download the game, it will uncompress itself and then it will install DirectX and all the other Redist stuff it needs.

[Supafly]

Gun2275 eredeti hozzászólása:

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

That doesn't make any sense as the game is the same size, no matter if bought through Steam, or directly from Rockstar. The 5.8MB launcher would still download the game, just like Steam.
To download GTA V with that speed you'd need one beastly internet connection and a really fast drive to write and process data fast enough.

I just saying that rockstar for GTA 5 at least uses a difrent compression system and I have a almost the same read and write on my HDD as a SSD but only because I have 3 new harddrives and new cables for them, but my internet is really bad because it caps out on speed tests at 196KB but ya steam just uses a unusal comprestion system thats all

Yes but the point is still the same. Rockstar actually makes you download more data. You need to download a 5.8MB installer that you run to download and install. Steam doesn't It just download then installs. The Speed or download region could be the reason for a slow download. You'd need to know speed Rockstars installer is downloading at versus Steams DL speeds.

There are also installers and ways to Downloaded a small amount of data and install part of a game fairly quickly. However you haven't downloaded the whole game. You have download the intiail part of the game allowing access to early parts of the game while the rest downloads and installs in the backgroud. You can't visit everywhere early on in openworld games or reach a specific area until you reach a certain chapter in others. This is how this type of installer works.

I'm not saying this is how Rockstars installer works for GTA. It could be I just haven't tried it and I'm not about to buy GTA to find out.

[khaytiil]

Isn't steam already compressing games? At least for some games it applies i guess. Like 3 days ago i downloaded block n load and it downloaded only 4 gb, after installation it was 8 gb in disk

[Cathulhu]

wuddih eredeti hozzászólása:

steam does compress. and that not too less. it downloads compressed and extracs on the fly. southpark is 6 gigs on disk and the download is 4. you never download 12 gigs of skyrim if the gamefolder is 12 gigs.

So pretty much what wuddih said four years ago. Why did you necro this thread?