Replay files compression

[Tank Girl]

I just noticed that replay files are between 10 and 15 MB on harddrive. But when compressing them with win.rar I get like 500-800 kb of files

Wouldnt it be nice if the game would compress the replay files itself? Finally I know why my SD-Harddrive is filling up so fast lol

 

[dmdelor]

That'd be nice. I remember during my last "where'd all my HDD space go?" cleanup being impressed at what 1000 hours of playing Red Dragon had done to my replay directory.

Pretty sure there's a lot of open source compression libraries they could probably stick in with relatively low effort. Last time I needed to make some code I was working on compress its output files it was a pretty painless addition. OTOH, I'm sure they have other stuff that's probably a higher priority to them to be doing.

 

[Arctander]

Yeah, WinRAR really smushes em down. I just go in and delete them when they're a week or so old anyway.