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nickb.dev · May 16, 2023

There and back again with zstd zips

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In pdx.tools , users have the option to upload their EU4 save files. Behind their .eu4 extension, these files are typically zips; zips that aren’t compressed very well. Extracting and recompressing the files nets around a 20% reduction in size. 
 As the person who pays for file storage, storing poorly compressed zips isn’t appetizing. Though I can understand why a game may prefer a…

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