Version 4.0 Beta 11

[Iridium-IO]

Changes

• Queue Rework
  • The Queue is now more of a real queue with compression respecting the order of operations and with clearer live progress, estimated savings and compression modes displayed.
  • Can be opened from any page in CompactGUI using a button on the left edge.
  • Items can be dragged/dropped to rearrange their order of operation in the queue

Note

For the love of God, please don't try dragging items around while the queue is actively running. It will probably go about as well as you can imagine.

• Steam Library Improvements
  • Added proper support for filtering, multi-selection and sorting.
  • Selecting items will now show a banner for configuration settings to add to the queue.
    • Note if you select a game that is not recommended for compression, it will disable the "Add to Queue" button in the banner; you can still manually add it by right-clicking the item directly.
  • Massive speedup when loading the library view - CompactGUI will show the full game list first and then analyse in the background to avoid slowdowns with large libraries.

Tweaks

• Performance and responsiveness
  • Improved general rendering performance, reduced GPU overhead - then promptly added some back by using transparent blurs on the overlays :P
  • More memory checks and leak fixes
• UI Tweaks
  • Improved compression workflow UI to make things clearer, and also redesigned the results page
  • Instead of a vague “Cancelling…” status, CompactGUI indicates how many active operations are still being cancelled.
  • When compressing/uncompressing, now shows all files that are simultaneously being worked on.
  • Added a bunch of minor polish and animation tweaks across the user interface
• Safer Compression and Uncompression
  • Checks available disk space very conservatively before starting compression or uncompression. If you do not have at least 50% of the folder's size available as FREE space on the disk, it will prevent you from compressing/uncompressing. This is to try to add protection against Windows since we cannot decide when Windows decides to clean up after compression. If you are close to this threshold, CompactGUI will force itself to run compression WITHOUT paralellism, to avoid multiple compressions occurring at the same time that could go beyond the disk's size. This may be enough to fix the various reports of losing disk space rather than gaining space. This is still a Windows issue however
  • Skip sparse files intentionally during compression
  • Virtual hard-disk images are forced to process one at a time - no idea why people were compressing these but anyway
• Languages
  • Added Italian Add Italian localization and update README links #657
  • Added Korean Add Korean support #634
  • Other translations that were updated are now woefully outdated again - sorry to the translators!
  • Language updates now take into account the version of the program as well

Fixes

• Fixed a queue deadlock that could occur when pause/cancel were spam-clicked
• Improved cancellation handling to mitigate race conditions with files being added/removed from active work (this should fix issues where hitting cancel at the wrong time would cause up to 16 extra compression processes being created first which then must finish)
• Improved cancellation status display when multiple concurrent operations are winding down together.
• Fix issue with the Steam Library crashing when trying to add a folder to the queue if it's drive letter was stored as a lowercase (c:/ instead of C:/) by Steam. App crashes on "Add to compression queue" #659

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Installation

Binaries

CompactGUI.exe (10MB):		 Smaller size, but requires .NET 10 Runtime to be installed
CompactGUI.mono.exe (66MB):	 Fully self-contained and embeds the necessary .NET 10 libraries

WinGet

winget install CompactGUI

Note

Installing from WinGet automatically installs .NET 10 if required, however it can often take a few days for new releases to become available.

Checksums

MD5: 		B52B8D71CDBBF8205136955AFD944F9C
SHA-256: 	2079811DBF6617EA099D4CA244F2045A458205D7CAD7582772EF95BAE203EF50

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This discussion was created from the release Version 4.0 Beta 11.

[PriorSupersnail]

I updated from 4.0 Beta 6. I was excited about the new features, but disappointed that the app fails to launch correctly. The process pops up in task manager, but it fails with no message and disappears just a few moments later. Reverting back to beta 6 works to restore folder watching.

Edit. I think it's because you changed the place where the json files were stored. I had CompactGUI.exe in a write protected folder. You were writing to a user subfolder before.

[Iridium-IO]

Hey, sorry about that.

Is the exe in a folder called "CompactGUI" by chance? If it is, that's how the new true portable feature is enabled, so all data is stored next to the exe instead of the AppData folder.

You can either:

• rename the folder to something else and it will revert to using the AppData folder
• move the data from AppData (%LocalAppData%/IridiumIO/CompactGui)into the local folder instead

[Exostenza]

This is absolutely fantastic and I just wanted to let you know that your work is very much appreciated! Especially in these times of NAND being egregiously expensive, you have saved a couple of my friends from having to buy more storage at this time. I also use it on my laptop to fit more games on it and it is a life saver for cramming on as many games as possible onto my gaming laptop. I am also really liking the steam library addition and am also glad you're working on improving it.

I might have some comments on suggestions after I have used this new version some more but for now I just wanted to let you know that you are an absolute legend.

Also, I think someone stole your code, vibe coded a simple UI to differentiate it, and is selling it on steam so you might want to have a look at Game Compressor on steam as I think they are profiting off of your hard work which is extremely unfair if that is the case, and I do believe that is the case.

[Iridium-IO]

I've been aware of Game Compressor for a while, but even if they're using my code - it doesn't really matter, since CompactGUI is open-source anyway.
In fact, given how shit half my code is, they're probably shooting themselves in the foot if they copy any of it :)