Comment on Do you guys play old AAA games?
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months agoI feel that. The newer games are fun and look beautiful, but the storage requirements sting a bit.
Comment on Do you guys play old AAA games?
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months agoI feel that. The newer games are fun and look beautiful, but the storage requirements sting a bit.
shisuko@mastodon.social 8 months ago
@Telorand @s12 File compression? Never heard of them.
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 8 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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Already using btrfs, since I’m on Bazzite, but I think I’ll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂
s12@sopuli.xyz 8 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