qoir VS CompactGUI

It's important to notice that ZPNG beats virtually all QOI variants, as discovered in: https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir

But most platforms these days have some form of CRC32 "acceleration". Adler32 is easy to compute so I'm even less concerned there.

I spent a bunch of time optimising the code in [fpnge](https://github.com/veluca93/fpnge), which is [often notably faster than fpng](https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir/blob/5671f584dcf84ddb71e28d...), yet checksum time is basically negligible.

Having said that, the double-checksum aspect of PNG does feel unnecessary.

* AFAIK it does this while beating the original QOI in terms of speed AND efficiency

Lots of benchmarks in: https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir

QOIX

QOIX is my very own version that adds:

CompactGUI

Also, check out CompactGUI. It's a more user-friendly and efficient way of using Windows' built-in compression to cut the game's file size almost in half. It makes load times marginally longer (like 5-10%) and needs to be redone every few updates to keep the size down, but it works.

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.

You can also just use compactGui smaller filesizes without having to remove dialogs or cutscenes or anything. Obviously how much space is regained depends on how well it was compressed originally. With triple A titles perhaps getting 10% back, while things like ark can literally be shrunk by hundreds of gigs.

Not really related to your question but if you want to try and save some space you can give this a go, I've used it before and never had any issues. https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI

Meet you new best friend. https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI