GGPK defragmenter issues WARNING

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/28060

I used the GGPK defragmenter and saved like 60mb so not too much. I also received that weird HTML on the announcements when you first boot up the game (at the pirate ship login). But for some reason that is now fixed.

Here's the biggest issue. I tried a defrag two nights in a row and it cannot defrag content.ggpk 5.3gigs worth. I'm not sure what to do, hopefully the next major patch will fix this (because it will add more to the file).

So, just a fair warning. From what I gathered if you joined the game late 2012 or later you will not save that much space.

I gotta go work on my buddy's car so I'll take a look back here tonight or tmo.

Doing that kind of defrag 2 nights in a row would accomplish nothing.

Do it once and then do a HDD defrag and optimize.

After that, an occasional HDD defrag is all you will need until after a significant number of POE patches.

Im not sure I know how to accomplish that. I used windows defragmenter on the correct hard drive.

Can you give me instructions on how to do what you are stating?

I defrag the gppk every 2-3 patches, seems to save me 40-60MB per defrag

the space saved isn't the issue for me, as much as it cuts down on load times drastically :)

I appreciate that but (and I know you werent the original person responding to me) my windows defragmenter will no defrag 5.3g of space, which is the content.ggpk file.

This troubles me. I am assuming, upon the next patch(s) to fill the ggpk defrag'd space that the windows defrager will complete its job.

But having 5.3g of defragmented space pertaining to one file (which only occured after using the ggpk defragmenter) is no fun to me.

if you defragment it with the gppk defragmenter there is no reason for windows to defrag it?

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Axtrixis wrote:

if you defragment it with the gppk defragmenter there is no reason for windows to defrag it?

That's not how it works.

1. Windows defrag sucks. Use defraggler
2. Windows defrag defrags your hard drive, GGPK defrags the Grinding Gear Package file

Ill give defragler a shot.

EDIT: Defragler is trying to force me to install getsavin or some shit. no thanks. Is there a way around this?

EDIT EDIT: NM it didnt act like the last two ads. Fixed. Let yall know how it went after defrag thru defragler

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Xendran wrote:

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Axtrixis wrote:

if you defragment it with the gppk defragmenter there is no reason for windows to defrag it?

That's not how it works.

1. Windows defrag sucks. Use defraggler
2. Windows defrag defrags your hard drive, GGPK defrags the Grinding Gear Package file

I know windows drag sucks, it's why i use Auslogics
It sounded like the guy was having an issue with windows defrag working on a large file, so if he defrags normally he can use the ggpk defrag tool to defrag just the large file.

i do this all day every day at work, but, i'd kill to be working with files as small at 5.3GB, i have to xfer a 700GB sql bak file tomorrow. :( gonna suck so bad

OKAY! update. I downloaded defraggler and it seemed to work just fine. I will try a windows defrag tonight to verify.

defraggler's install went very smoothly leading me to believe that the program I downloaded before 'defragler' was bullshit.

Letcha know the results tmo and Ill post a link to defraggler if all goes well.