As somebody who critiques gaming keyboards, I can confidently say that many of the driver/supervisor apps that include them are horrible. They’re typically gradual, bloated, and making an attempt to do means an excessive amount of. However I’ve but to come across one which stuffed up my storage with 50 GB of mildly racy anime babes, as one consumer claims occurred to their PC.
Alright, so this one is bizarre and attention-grabbing and goofy. A poster on a PC gaming subreddit claims that the XPG Prime app—which manages RGB lighting for the corporate’s RAM, coolers, and different PC {hardware}—stuffed up a Home windows temp folder with 50.4 GB of repeating screenshots of generic sci-fi anime ladies. The how and why aren’t instantly apparent, however presumably consumer “red_machina” noticed the large house filling up their SSD with junk.
Tom’s {Hardware} did a little bit of investigating, figuring out the images as screenshots and different promotional materials from XPG’s very personal anime quick. (I don’t advocate watching. The trouble is there, however the mixture of barely animated 2D photos and what seems like Unity 3D animation is undeniably low-rent.) So, these aren’t simply anime ladies, they’re PC gaming anime ladies. Woo. Apparently, this system downloads the photographs to current to the consumer as wallpapers every time it runs, however neglects to delete the short-term information created within the course of.
However one thing else is happening with this explicit consumer’s PC. Merely repeating this course of and downloading the identical wallpaper picture information time and again would require rebooting the PC (or at the very least the app) a number of thousand occasions earlier than the duplicate information took up 50 GB.
Nonetheless, when you occur to make use of XPG RAM and also you’ve put in the RGB supervisor program, perhaps use a device like SpaceSniffer to see when you can shortly clear up some room in your SSD. Except you need 1000’s and 1000’s of wallpapers of generic anime girls, for some purpose. Observe that your RAM will most likely cycle in rainbow colours and not using a devoted app, or you need to use one thing like OpenRGB to handle it with one thing rather less branded.