It's PornoLab, they're semi private and I've got a solid amount of buffer, but I do wanna seed those small but essential files because I know I'm probably gonna be the only seeder of this after a few years

Is this similar to hardlinking and insta move cause I use Windows ?

I use a cross-seed program that does something similar, it creates a copy of files without it taking twice the space on the disk.

So should I just create another folder and hardlink the game and lib folder there, and copy the rest of the small files into that folder, so the original torrent directory is undisturbed whenever I open the exe in the newly created folder ?

I don't what you mean by that ? I'm on the contents tab of that torrent in Qbittorrent, to play the game, I open the folder in which I have saved this game and double click the exe. But if I run the game, some files get updated and the bottom 5 files now, don't match the ones in the torrent. Because of which I have to delete the exe and other small files and redownload them through the torrent to keep the full torrent seeding.

The save files are stored in appdata so that doesn't affect the game and my saves are safe.

Am I doing it all wrong, should I just hardlink the big files into another folder on the disk and then copy those exe and other small files and double click the exe that is in the new folder ?

This way the torrent directly would be unchanged and I'd get to enjoy the game without being worried about the small files being updated/changed everytime I double click the exe ?

Selfish asshole

Notify me if you find them, I avoid game torrents because of this unpacking shit, I've got Fiber connection and don't need to save any bandwidth.

But because all the big uploaders love compressing the fuck outta games, it just takes up 1.5 - 2 times the space on my disk, can't delete the torrent because I want to seed too.

I believe some uploader on cs.rin.ru uploads pre-installed game torrents as I read about them in a comment. But I wasn't able to find them.

All this has made me switch do DDL sites for games.

If you have the subscription active then connect your account with Kemono.su it'll automatically archive all the stuff and will mirror it.

But if your subscription has ended then upload all the files on forums like Anime-sharing or F95zone.to

Also, I don't do moral policing like the other guy in the comment.

Proton VPN has really good speeds, they offer Port Forwarding and their 2 year plan is 4.49 Euro per month

Same I fucking hate it