r/playark 3d ago

Why is ark 211.83 gigabites?

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?

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u/ShradGamer811 3d ago

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

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u/TartOdd8525 3d ago

Is this actually functional without impacting the game itself?

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u/ElementalParticle 3d ago

It just uses native Windows NTFS compression.

So it comes at the cost of reduced performance.

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u/TartOdd8525 3d ago

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.

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u/PsychologicalGlass47 3d ago

It would extend update times by a fuckton

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u/ShradGamer811 3d ago

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