Comment on Do you guys play old AAA games?

s12@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel that. The newer games are fun and look beautiful, but the storage requirements sting a bit.

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  • shisuko@mastodon.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Telorand @s12 File compression? Never heard of them.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?

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      • rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It can, but it’s not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.

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    • s12@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because everyone has time to 7z a -m”x=9” an entire game that might be hardly compressible due to drm, whenever they want to unzip and play a different game! /s

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