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How to Minify Godot's Build Size (93MB –> 6.4MB EXE)

by popcar2 on 3/11/25, 2:21 PM with 5 comments

• by atiedebee on 3/11/25, 4:39 PM

  > The bad news is that it stores that decompressed data in your RAM, increasing the memory used by the game. Without UPX, my game uses ~53MB of RAM. With UPX, it's up to ~74MB.

  The decompressed data will be in RAM either way. I assume it's the _compressed_ data that remains in RAM (the RAM usage seems to support this as well)

• by mort96 on 3/11/25, 3:15 PM

  This is great! Those are some impressive savings.

  Though sadly, for web exports, the vast majority of your loading time for at least your macOS/iOS users will be spent compiling shaders. The loading bar quickly goes from 0% to 90%, then the tab freezes for a few minutes as macOS sloooowly processes the GLSL. I don't know if there's anything to do about that.

• by pacifika on 3/11/25, 11:21 PM

  Setup your gzip webserver configuration for wasm files and that gets the transferred bytes down by a huge chunk.

• by georgeecollins on 3/11/25, 3:02 PM

  This is very helpful. I love Godot. Maybe not the best at anything but so fun to create with.