To compress my entire ‘E:\Games’ folder hierarchy using LZX I would do this: compact /c /s /a /i /exe:lzx "E:\Games\*" The uncompression is automatic though, as in transparent to you using the files.
To use it you have to manually compress the folders/files yourself, because the option isn’t a default one that compresses things in folders on the fly.
#Dcs world recompress files windows 10#
The most intense compression is to be found with the new Windows 10 only LZX compression. The default compression is fine, but you can tweak the algorithm for some dramatic disk savings, with the cost being old-windows compatibility. Old versions of windows on your network might not be able to read the files. So it’s a trade off, but on most modern games it would be hard to even notice, especially as a lot of them preload into memory where they can (DCS etc) and don’t fully utilize all cores… So why not do it all the time? Well, the downsides are:Īs it uncompresses on the fly when you access the file it will use (a) a bit of CPU (say, about 5% across all cores while accessing the file) and (b) a bit of memory. This then works completely transparently and for things not already compressed (some image and video formats etc) it works really well. You right-mouse-button on a folder or file in Windows Explorer and choose the ‘General’ tab, hit the ‘Advanced…’ button and then tick the ‘Compress contents to save disk space’ option.
So I’m getting low on SSD space and probably just need to buy some more (although buying things got me in this predicament in the first place ), but I did see the new Windows 10 LZW compact option mentioned on reddit the other day and thought I could share here.Įssentially what this is is that Windows has an in-built way to compress / uncompress files on the fly.
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