Anything below version 1.2.11.0 doesn't work on my test file, it gives 0 bytes. It only happens if i change original name to "zlibwapi", strange enough xtool works without zlibwapi.dll.

Thanks for the test, xtool can work without zlibwapi, but only if zlib1.dll or zlib.dll is detected elsewhere and since Freearc registers dlls when it installs, probably it used the one in FA's directory.

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used it on Darksiders 2 file, test 1 recompressed it to 1gb but apperror occured, test 3 successfully worked

Preocmp gave better output, 1.12gb whereas 1.06 with xtool on above mentioned file.

Hmm, interesting. Did you compress the file afterwards, both outputs of xtool and precomp to see which one did a good precompression job?

working on it, afai tested previously, precomp is the lead winner against ztool and pzlibv3, its slow but efficient

Same here, ran many tests and somehow precomp seems to find streams that I have no idea as to where it finds them but compression after the precompressed data tells the true story.

i am still thinking about it!:confused:

@Razor In my case precomp and test3 produced same results. i tried files from halo 2, tom raider 2013 etc.

XTool+srep+lzma = 459mb = 1.06gb = 257mb
Precomp+srep+lzma = 459mb = 1.12gb = 239mb
Even after this I am damn impressed with XTool, its 10x faster compared to precomp, but the difference is about 16mb and it will be more if used on bigger files. Still ill ran some more tests. Also about Ztool it had the same issue while recompressing a zip file.

I want that 16mb, can you upload that file so I can see what's really going on.

Dev] XTool I want to use or try this application but I do not know anything, can you help?

Second to this Razor. Also, pdfs aren't properly detected either.

Very sorry bro, i wish i could but my internet speed sucks, it will take me 24 hours or more to upload it. This might help, I used offzip on it and the output size extracted was about 1.12gb, same as precomp output.

Cool, I think I know what the issue is then. Thanks for participating in tests.
Will roll out another test where perhaps this issue will be fixed then move onto lz4 codec.