i tried ztool and both pzlib 3.2 and 3.0.1 i get the same ratio 105.36%...
only applied pzlib 42,935,540,198 => 45,238,050,951 bytes.
what ratio you get ???
now i am tring precompmt...

That makes no sense...

When I used pzlib 3.2 my ratio at end of pzlib3 part of compression was under 50%, don't remember the exact number but it was in the 40-50% area.

I'm currently testing compression with pzlib3.0.1+srep64+lzma, will report back results when I have them, gonna take a few hours.

precompmt.dll used with precomp 0.46
i get 42,935,540,198 => 43,687,319,971 bytes. Ratio 101.75%
worst than ztool /pzlibv3

[QUOTE=vollachr;468409]No, I mean, I tried but I got crashes from MSC, so I gave up on it...
during compression or deccompression it crashes ?

During compression, each time it got to the MSC part, MSC crashed, could never figure out why.

it seems that only psd have zlib...
all psd 2.72gb

Really? OK...

Anyway, here's the weird thing though, pZLib 3.0.1, unlike pZLib 3.2, so far at least (still far from finished), give me a much worse ratio (97-100%), that said, it's not even half way through the process, so I'll wait and see.

Truth be told, I only need it to compress additional 400MB or so compared to srep64+lzma without pZLib3 and It'll be enough.

Maybe I'll re-try MSC later on.

UPDATE: Okay, pZLib 3.0.1 part of compression finished, final ratio: 106%, I'll wait and see what the final result will be.

i'm tring msc on dds file so far no crash...

Could be something with my arc.ini entry for MSC, or it's placement within the method, when I tried it it was pzlib(ztool)+msc+srep64+lzma

my ini for msc:

[External compressor:msc]
;Alt: -f = Forced on bigger data //-frog=9 use this instead of -tak=9 = yields error on decomp.
header = 0
packcmd = msc.exe c -v -wav=1 -raw=1 -bmp=1 -ddsraw=1 -ddsdxt=1 -mp3=1 -bmf=9s -tak=9 -dxt=1 -lzma=hc4,lc8,lp2,pb2,fb273,mc1000 $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

usually i compress filles separately zlib / media / etc...
on small game i use msc before pzlib
msc+pzlib+srep+lzma

Well, I'm using CLS-diskspan to create the disc size split so separately is not an option but I'll try your MSC arc.ini entry, maybe it will work.

Thanks.

ok msc done on dds
Compressed 18,571 files, 11,173,425,105 => 8,818,080,553 bytes. Ratio 78.92%
test decompression all file crc ok...
well all that left is to use msc+pzlib+srep+lolz to get the best result when it done i will update...
so the final size msc+pzlib+srep+lolz it worst without msc ???

How About U Add "-v" To Pzlib3

Any news?

From some reason, whenever I try msc+pzlib+srep64+lzma64 the compression just ends after MSC, without any errors but without completing the compression and writing the data file so I end up with a final disc folder that only have the Setup.exe, Setup.ico & Autorun.inf and is less than 60MB in size (which is the Setup.exe size)

I tried it with different pzlib versions and settings, it keeps happening.

the ratio seem to be worst with MSC+pzlib+srep+lolz. i get 9.8gb ???
other pople who repack Assetto Corsa get 6.8gb...
i don't know what setting.
i am out of idea right now ???