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Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA.

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Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA.

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days ago

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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.

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So network bandwidth became cheaper than cpu ? Clearly CPUs are stagnating.

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