XPG’s RGB Software May Be Hoarding Gigabytes of Anime Screenshots on Your PC
Gaming keyboard software is notorious for being bloated, slow, and overcomplicated, but rarely does it silently hoard 50GB of anime wallpapers in your Windows temp folder. Yet, that’s exactly what one Reddit user claims happened with XPG Prime, the RGB control software for XPG’s gaming hardware.
According to user “red_machina,” their SSD was mysteriously filling up, only for them to discover over 50GB of repeating images featuring generic sci-fi anime women tucked away in a temp folder. Tom’s Hardware took a closer look and confirmed that these weren’t just any random images—they were screenshots and promotional material from an official anime short produced by XPG.
It appears that the XPG Prime app downloads these wallpapers every time it runs, displaying them as background images for the user interface. However, the app fails to clean up old temporary files, causing the folder to grow uncontrollably over time. While this alone is bad software design, what makes the situation even stranger is the sheer scale of the storage bloat—50GB worth of duplicate files would require the software to relaunch thousands of times, suggesting something unusual was happening on this particular system.
For XPG users, it might be wise to check for rogue files using SpaceSniffer or a similar tool. Those who prefer a cleaner experience may want to uninstall XPG Prime and use OpenRGB or rely on the default lighting cycles instead. While anime-themed peripherals are a niche in gaming, most users would probably prefer their software to manage RGB without taking up more space than an entire AAA game.