XPG’s RGB Manager App Reportedly Fills Up Storage with 50GB of Anime Screenshots
When it comes to gaming peripherals, dedicated driver and manager apps are often a necessary evil. Most of them are bloated, slow, and packed with unnecessary features—but rarely do they fill up your SSD with 50GB of anime screenshots, as one user recently claimed happened to their PC.
A Reddit user, “red_machina,” reported that XPG Prime, the RGB management software for XPG’s gaming hardware, was silently storing 50.4GB of repeating images featuring sci-fi anime characters in a Windows temp folder. The images weren’t random, either. Tom’s Hardware investigated and found that they were promotional screenshots from an official anime short produced by XPG itself.
Apparently, the software downloads these wallpapers each time it launches but fails to delete the old temporary files, causing the folder to balloon in size over time. However, for a folder to reach 50GB of duplicate images, the app would have to be launched or rebooted thousands of times—a sign that something odd was happening on this particular user’s system.
For those using XPG’s RGB software, it’s worth checking storage usage with a tool like SpaceSniffer or WinDirStat to see if unnecessary files are piling up. Alternatively, users can switch to OpenRGB or simply let their RAM cycle through default rainbow lighting without additional software. While this incident is certainly bizarre, it serves as another reminder that gaming peripheral software can often be more of a liability than a benefit.
