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[โ€“] anguo@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't decompression only happen client-side? I don't imagine them compressing the files multiple times.

[โ€“] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

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.