FileForums - Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

To be honest, I aplied preflate on pngs and pdfs without even checking the amount of files (it's from a preset).

Which files use lz4? Bundles? Because gfs nor xtool (old) do nothing on them.

Masquerade

11-03-2022 12:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by KaktoR (Post 496182)

Which files use lz4? Bundles? Because gfs nor xtool (old) do nothing on them.

Bundles, I am working on an XTool database for this one, nearly there with lz4hc but still got a way to go.

Code:

Streams: 262/923

Time: 00:00:01 (00:00:03)

Memory: 128 MB (128 MB)

You can discover this info by searching the magic number on Aluigi's site:

Code:

Xenko . Xenko / Stride Engine BUNDLE . lz4 . XKB1 [xenko.bms]

http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms_list.php

Masquerade

12-03-2022 02:50

The WAVE audio from Distant Worlds 2 does not compress with MSC:

Code:

Compressed 7 files, 143,350,258 => 143,350,271 bytes. Ratio 100.00%

Compression time: cpu 0.17 sec/real 16.29 sec = 1%. Speed 8.80 mB/s

All OK

Instead, use TAK which I posted here.

Code:

Compressed 7 files, 143,350,258 => 97,043,321 bytes. Ratio 67.70%

Compression time: cpu 0.14 sec/real 15.06 sec = 1%. Speed 9.52 mB/s

All OK

dixen

13-03-2022 07:49

Metro Exodus

*.Vfs## - vfsrec+srep+lolz
73 gb > 103 gb > 74 gb > 46 gb

audio .vfs## & video - srep+lzma2
2,7 gb > 2.4 gb

rest files
580 mb > 31 mb

Repack size - 48.5 gb

NOTE.
For decompession *.vfs## you need this tool
Thanks to Razor12911.

Edison007

13-03-2022 08:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masquerade (Post 496190)

The WAVE audio from Distant Worlds 2 does not compress with MSC:

https://krinkels.org/threads/msc-med...e-7#post-33954

Code:

msc:tak=9   - 92,5 MB (97 043 713 bytes)

msc:frog=9  - 91,3 MB (95 739 244 bytes)

msc:frog=9e - 91,2 MB (95 670 076 bytes)

pslove

13-03-2022 22:23

Hello everyone, What's the best method for State of Decay 2? Thank you!

:( Sad8669

15-03-2022 18:01

Sifu - version 4.26.2.0 + OST and Artbook

1 Attachment(s)

Code:

Method : xtool:ue4,key+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:normal

Compression Time: 5.96 Hours

Decompression Time : 6.5 Minutes

Initial Size : 19.1 GB

Final Size: 7.38 GB

Info : Use "-c512mb" for XTool, XTool 0.4.4 used

Ripped Files :

Code:

Engine/Binaries/Win64/CrashReportClient.pdb

Sifu/Binaries/Win64/Sifu-Win64-Shipping.pdb        

Engine/Content/SlateDebug/Fonts/LastResort.tps        

Engine/Content/SlateDebug/Fonts/LastResort.ttf

Thanks to Razor for unreal library, attached it below.

dixen

23-03-2022 12:47

Age of Empires III (3): Definitive Edition (100.12.54545.0)

*.bar - Xtool(v0.46)+SREP+LOLZ
44.4 gb > 75.1 gb > 52 gb > 23.5 gb

.bk2 - srep+lzma2

rest files - srep+lolz

Ripped all non-english voice files

Install size = 45.6 gb
RePack size = 24.3 gb

NOTE. Repack used a-lz4-plugin by Edison007. Thanks him for this.

Masquerade

25-03-2022 09:19

GhostWire Tokyo

Paks Folder:

For xtool, use -mgwtokyo -d1 for UCAS decryption. Oo2reck used for oodle kraken precompression since the older version of xtool (needed for gwtokyo database compatibility) is missing Razor's improvements to kraken precompression. Use a big chunk size for XTool because the encrypted streams are large.

Code:

xtool+oo2reck+srep+lolz

Everything else:

Code:

srep+razor

16.8GB ----> 13.4GB

KaktoR

27-03-2022 10:23

Tiny Tinas Wonderlands
pak = zlib

L33THAK0R

28-03-2022 03:48

Could anybody send me the decomp executable for ProFragers's "Media Stream Compressor (MSC)? Got a few thousand ".wav" files to sort through, as a handful are failing to decomp, would make troubleshooting heaps easier, cheers in advance.

Razor12911

28-03-2022 04:01

You can try to use the method -mtta in Freearc if sorting becomes a tedious job, most people don't know that Freearc does have wav file compressor but it only works if the audio files are not archived or in another container. Plus handing over files from that forum is against the rules.

Edit: I remember once having problems using msc on Left 4 Dead 2 which forced me to used Freearc's built in wav compressor.

left4dead2_dlc3\sound:
-mtta

Code:

Compressed 4,778 files, 1,315,603,487 => 649,582,676 bytes. Ratio 49.38%

Compression time: cpu 69.56 sec/real 142.00 sec = 49%. Speed 9.26 mB/s

L33THAK0R

28-03-2022 05:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Razor12911 (Post 496303)

Code:

Compressed 4,778 files, 1,315,603,487 => 649,582,676 bytes. Ratio 49.38%

Compression time: cpu 69.56 sec/real 142.00 sec = 49%. Speed 9.26 mB/s

Ah cheers I'll give that a go, thankfully the archives are unpacked (as is required due to modding and fixing the titles numerous issues only being possible with unpacked archives) so this method should be viable, fingers crossed!

L33THAK0R

28-03-2022 06:33

Tried to update my previous post but seems the forum hates me. For some reason FreeArc spazzes out if I try to combine TTA with any other external compressors (ie. srep & lolz)

Code:

Srep + Lolz: 

335,573,882 -> 183,504,594



TTA:

335,573,882 -> 209,287,460

Seems like I'll just have to hunt around for that elusive MSC decomp executable, or wait until krinkels membership payment vendor comes back online.

Masquerade

28-03-2022 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R (Post 496302)

Dude, I already told you about the Krinkels rules before in a different topic. You cannot ask for Krinkels content!!

Code:

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