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"BSAs are basically just compressed archives like a RAR or Zip. So in order for the game to access them, it has to decompress the files it needs before loading them into memory. So by having the files uncompressed, be it with Oblivion, Skyrim, or any game, can give some performance boost" - _echo This is not necessarily true. Disk is exponentially much slower than the memory and cpu cycle rates so if files are compressed then they require fewer really slow disk IOs and more exponentially much faster cpu and memory cycles. Compression of disks has quite often been found to speed up systems because the slow IO times are offset by the faster CPU times. The real benefit of loose files would be their reuse by other mods.