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		kg on April 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video ga... For all we know it actually worked that way. Steam definitely decompresses game assets at install time. The people complaining about game sizes aren't looking at the depot files you download when installing the game, they're looking at their HDD (which is fair!) My guess is Valve doesn't offer a 'decompress your ogg files to wav at install time' feature though.

ntauthority on April 22, 2023 [–]

Titanfall did work this way on the EA launcher. There was a tool that it'd run on first launch to decompress the compressed audio files.

Dylan16807 on April 22, 2023 | [–]

But why.

Even when you do want lossless assets, as long as you compress in reasonable chunks there is no downside.

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