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Any way to compress game files on linux?
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Depends on the game. A title like dota will have a lot of savings (tens of gigabytes last I checked it). Most other games it seems don’t have obviously and easily compressible assets from a generic compression algorithm, and therefore will yield extremely minor savings.
Checked some installed games. DotA is down to 36 gb from 67. Almost 54% the original size.
RoboCop rogue city is 37->37gb. Negligible savings.