Compactor
A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression (by Freaky)
CompactGUI
Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI] (by ImminentFate)
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Compactor
Posts with mentions or reviews of Compactor.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
- Just a reminder that you can free up storage space by compressing your games with Compactor
- Compactor: User interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
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With the Size Modern AAA games come in, is it possible that you could mod a game into being Smaller?
You can already do the very basic version of that by using Compactor. Essentially it uses Windows 10's compression algorithms to make your games smaller. A lot of variance between games based on what their files consist of, but I generally get ~25% more space on my drives. Of course, a single update to the game might mean that you have to pack them again, but it's still a pretty good upside with practically no performance loss.
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STARFIELD system requirements
This will also help.
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A message from GSC Game World team!
ARK practically needs its own 500GB SSD, specially if you start installing mods on top of having all of the DLCs. However, it's possible to bring down its size massively if you use this software, it works exceptionally well in ARK, being able to reduce it to about half its size. For example, my ARK installation went from like 320 GB to 175 I believe, which is still huge, but only about as much as any modern AAA game.
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Modern Game File Sizes Be Like
You can chuck compact.exe at it by hand (use the /exe option), or if you'd prefer to avoid the command line there's my Compactor tool, or the venerable CompactGUI.
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Time to upgrade
They actually don't compress it. Using a simple compressor like this one for instance, the size decreases by half, if not a bit more than it. Tested it with the base game and it went from 200GB to 100GB.
- The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
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PC Gamer: The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
I should press on and finish my Compactor rewrite, I guess.
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what are some software's that should be noted?
7zip, microsoft powertoys (useful utilities n stuff), hyper-v (VM stuff), OBS, optimizer (https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer) (privacy stuff + system tweaks), compactor (https://github.com/Freaky/Compactor) (uses windows compact.exe and provides a GUI for a otherwise cmd based tool) also qbittorrent
CompactGUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of CompactGUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-27.
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Compactor/CompactGui, user interface for Windows filesystem compression, not updated anymore?
CompactGUI https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI
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Why does ark need so much space?
You can use CompactGUI to compress your game files
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When You find a game which you really like
CompactGUI
- Hey Guys I Just Found This Amazing Method To Highly Compress Games . it can save up to 50gb of space on hdd and ssd link for the video will be given in comments bcuz i cant post links here for some reason
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Is there a good way to compress games on Windows 11?
You can try https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI although game assets won't compress much furhter.
- Why is the NTFS compression option not shown?
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Why is the NTFS compression option not shown? 18TB/16.3TiB HDD NTFS formatted but for every folder the compression option is greyed out and for full disk compression the option is not shown. Any idea why? Do I need to enable NTFS compression as a feature or something?
Try if compact.exe works (there's also a GUI for it).
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Anyone know what’s the two arrow on my Microsoft edge? Apparently i have it on most apps.
someone made a GUI to use this tool: https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI
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Is there anyway to stop ark from being 300 gb should i like delete map files that I don’t play on
Other then uninstalling maps you can use compact gui to reduce the size.(Mine went from 392 to 190 with this.) https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI
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What games are similar to Ark, but uses less storage more or less?
CompactGUI
What are some alternatives?
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