This RGB app crammed up one consumer’s PC with anime babe wallpapers

As somebody who critiques gaming keyboards, I can confidently say that a lot of the driver/supervisor apps that include them are horrible. They’re typically gradual, bloated, and attempting to do approach an excessive amount of. However I’ve but to come across one which crammed 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 fascinating 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}—crammed up a Home windows temp folder with 50.4 GB of repeating screenshots of generic sci-fi anime girls. The how and why aren’t instantly apparent, however presumably consumer “red_machina” noticed the massive 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 brief. (I don’t advocate watching. The trouble is there, however the mixture of barely animated 2D pictures and what appears to be like like Unity 3D animation is undeniably low-rent.) So, these aren’t simply anime girls, they’re PC gaming anime girls. Woo. Apparently, this system downloads the pictures 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 rapidly clear up some room in your SSD. Until you need 1000’s and 1000’s of wallpapers of generic anime girls, for some purpose. Word that your RAM will most likely cycle in rainbow colours and not using a devoted app, or you should use one thing like OpenRGB to handle it with one thing rather less branded.