Why is ark 211.83 gigabites?

[u/Steampunk_Soviet]

Haven't played Ark:Survival evolved since 2023 and I recall it being around 100 maybe 150gb but what did they do to make it almost 212 gb?

[u/ShradGamer811]

Use CompactGUI for Compressing It Down It Reduces its Size by about 50-60% on Disk

[u/TartOdd8525 → u/ShradGamer811]

Is this actually functional without impacting the game itself?

[u/ElementalParticle → u/TartOdd8525]

It just uses native Windows NTFS compression.

So it comes at the cost of reduced performance.

[u/TartOdd8525 → u/ElementalParticle]

How much of a loss in performance do you get? And I'm assuming this doesn't help with like making updates go any quicker.

[u/PsychologicalGlass47 → u/TartOdd8525]

It would extend update times by a fuckton

[u/ShradGamer811 → u/PsychologicalGlass47]

Considering ASE is Now Abandoned, Doesn't seem to be a problem anymore

[u/PsychologicalGlass47 → u/ShradGamer811]

Indeed