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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA.

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Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA.

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

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Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA. Wonder how much of an overall improvement it will be.

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Pretty neat. Right now 1gbps downloads can often be bottlenecked by CPU, so a more efficient algorithm like zstd will probably speed up downloads.

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