diff --git a/app/downloads/DownloadRow.jsx b/app/downloads/DownloadRow.jsx
index d3dfaa0..9da9fcb 100644
--- a/app/downloads/DownloadRow.jsx
+++ b/app/downloads/DownloadRow.jsx
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ import { Text, View } from '@ps5-react/core';
               id: job2.id,
               label: stateLabel(shown),
               moving: BUSY.includes(state) && state !== "pausing",
-              waiting: WAITING.includes(shown),
+              // An extraction past its size estimate has no total left to fill: the label shimmers instead.
+              waiting: WAITING.includes(shown) || (shown === "extracting" && !job2.total),
               complete,
               detail: shown === "finishing" ? t2("downloads.writingToDisk") : null
             }
diff --git a/app/state/download-queue.js b/app/state/download-queue.js
index 5054dac..a6cbc33 100644
--- a/app/state/download-queue.js
+++ b/app/state/download-queue.js
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ import { VIKING_PAGE_PREFIX, VIKING_PREFIX, describeVikingCapture, linkPageMetad
       delete job2.captureFile;
       delete job2.fallbacks;
       if (job2.state === "installing") return { ...job2, state: "installer-required" };
-      if (job2.state === "extracting") job2.written = job2.total;
+      if (job2.state === "extracting") job2.written = job2.total ?? job2.written;
       if (job2.state === "removing") {
         job2.state = job2.removingFrom ?? "failed";
         job2.error = REMOVAL_CUT;
@@ -664,6 +664,10 @@ import { VIKING_PAGE_PREFIX, VIKING_PREFIX, describeVikingCapture, linkPageMetad
       const options = extraction(job2, files);
       const downloaded = { written: job2.written, total: job2.total };
       let estimate = files.reduce((sum, path) => sum + (fs.stat(path)?.size || 0), 0) || null;
+      // The archive's own size stands in for what it unpacks to until the engine reads that from its headers.
+      // Games unpack to far more (issue #54: a 107.9 GB set to over 160 GB): past the guess the row counts
+      // what is written, with no total, instead of holding at 99%.
+      let guessed = true;
       job2.state = "extracting";
       job2.written = 0;
       job2.total = estimate;
@@ -672,6 +676,7 @@ import { VIKING_PAGE_PREFIX, VIKING_PREFIX, describeVikingCapture, linkPageMetad
       let sample = { at: Date.now(), bytes: 0 };
       const report = (bytes) => {
         const now = Date.now();
+        if (guessed && estimate && bytes > estimate * 0.99) job2.total = estimate = null;
         job2.written = estimate ? Math.min(bytes, estimate * 0.99) : bytes;
         if (now - sample.at >= 1e3) {
           const speed = (bytes - sample.bytes) * 1e3 / (now - sample.at);
@@ -681,7 +686,11 @@ import { VIKING_PAGE_PREFIX, VIKING_PREFIX, describeVikingCapture, linkPageMetad
         emit2();
       };
       const follow = (progress) => {
-        if (progress.total && progress.total !== estimate) job2.total = estimate = progress.total;
+        // A total at the extraction's cap is the space free, not the files' size: they are bigger.
+        if (progress.total && progress.total !== estimate && progress.total < options.maxBytes) {
+          job2.total = estimate = progress.total;
+          guessed = false;
+        }
         if (progress.phase !== "finishing") {
           report(progress.written || 0);
           return;