GGPK Defragmenter

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JollyRoger2012 wrote:

Let's compare the content.ggpk size in version 2.4.0f:

standalone: ~7.6 GB (defragmented)
steam: ~11.8 GB

which is a difference of ~4 GB (!!!). I'm running PoE from hdd and the standalone client always had a better performance than the steam version (less stuttering and loading times). For me the steam version is broken and only useful to skip the e-mail unlock code. GGG please fix this!

How long have you been updating the Steam version client? Did you try wiping the Steam version and then re-downloading it again? I wonder if that makes any difference?

Also, has anyone tried the defrager (really just trim, not defrag) on the Steam version ggpk manually (with Steam client closed)?

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cipher_nemo wrote:

How long have you been updating the Steam version client?

Steam auto-updates PoE everytime I login, so I always have the latest version.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

Did you try wiping the Steam version and then re-downloading it again

For science I deleted all my Steam PoE files. When I want to reinstall PoE, Steam wants to download 12290 MB (version 2.4.0f).

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cipher_nemo wrote:

I wonder if that makes any difference?

Redownloading is going to take a while, but I guess the size suggests it is still the non-defragmented file.*

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cipher_nemo wrote:

Also, has anyone tried the defrager (really just trim, not defrag) on the Steam version ggpk manually (with Steam client closed)?

I ran defrag.bat and smart defrag last week. The content.ggpk shrunk to a size of ~7.6 GB like the standalone client and performance was subjectively the same. Maybe two days (and 2-3 restarts) later steam downloaded ~4GB of additional data and since then I have that extra large file again.

*Edit: after reinstalling PoE on Steam, content.ggpk file size is still ~11.8 GB.

GGPk space saved, 1.6GB

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Elapsed time: 16.97 minute(s)
File reduction: 1663.75 MB(s)

Thanks!


By the way, had to use this method:

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Tuni wrote:

I wasn't able to get this thing work too. Drag-drop failed, running as admin failed, tried different compatibility modes but no luck.

This is what worked for me:
-Go to your PoE installation folder
-Copy the .exe there
-Shift + right click anywhere in the folder
-Click 'Open command window here'
-Send 'ggpk_defragment.exe Content.ggpk' without quotes and done.

Hope it works for you too.

EXE worked fine for me.

Been playing since beta but I did replace the ggpk once during one of the releases where GGG made the ggpk file ready for download via torrent before release.

3.58 minutes
111.44 mb cleaned

I was expecting more :S

Lets hope there is performance improvements.

SSD, took 20 minutes and shaved 1.6 gbs off (9.1 to 7.5)

neat

This is hilarious

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K4r4k4s4 wrote:

This is hilarious

Wouldn't use it on steam tbh, it has a tendency to be stupid about the game file and might just redownload the whole lot

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K4r4k4s4 wrote:

This is hilarious

you shouldn't defragment the resource file of the steam version of poe.

it will result in steam downloading the file again because steam requires it to be identical with the version ggg originally released. jonathan (lead programmer) confirmed this.

so you can't defrag steam version and make it flawless like standalone??