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.
Hmm true. I was thinking that steam has a lot of games and respective builds it has to compress, even if the decompression benefits are clientside only.
Each new game update would also be compressed too - I have no idea how Steam handles the update to work out what files need replacing on their end though, which might involve decompressing the files to analyse them.
Hmm true. I was thinking that steam has a lot of games and respective builds it has to compress, even if the decompression benefits are clientside only.
Each new game update would also be compressed too - I have no idea how Steam handles the update to work out what files need replacing on their end though, which might involve decompressing the files to analyse them.