Team Fortress 2 Highly Compressed Extra Quality

The Ultimate Guide to Team Fortress 2: Highly Compressed and Extra Quality

  1. Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\sound\vo
  2. Delete folders like vo_dutch, vo_french, vo_spanish. Keep only vo_english .
  3. Saving: ~1.5GB.

further lossless compression yields minimal gains

Because Valve already applies lossless compression to official .vpk files, (typically 5–10% reduction). To achieve “highly compressed” status (e.g., shrinking 20 GB to under 5 GB), repackers must use lossy techniques.

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Did you know Valve re-enabled the ability to push texture quality way beyond the "Very High" setting? Setting your textures to the max in the menu only hits a value of -1, but you can go all the way to -10 for significantly crisper models and environmental details. How to enable it: team fortress 2 highly compressed extra quality