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Hogwarts Legacy

Game used oodle kraken

Quote:

Compressing pakchunk11-WindowsNoEditor.ucas 98%
Compressing 676,197,072 bytes with xtool.exe precomp -mkraken -c128mb -t100p $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
XTool is created by Razor12911

Streams: 19271/19280
Time: 00:00:58 (00:08:35)
Memory: 514 MB (514 MB)

100%
Errorlevel=0

Compressed 1 file, 676,197,072 => 2,228,651,670 bytes. Ratio 329.59%
Compression time: cpu 0.08 sec/real 72.49 sec = 0%. Speed 9.33 mB/s
All OK

Needed oo2core_8_win64.dll v2.8.14

@dixen
Also bink2 videos are kb2n, so bpk is useless here.

Damn, I guess next year at the least bpk will be useless entirely for new titles :(

Epic Games owns Unreal Engine and Rad Tools so its a free for all when it comes to Unreal Engine games using Bink Video and Oodle compression. The latest Bink version is KB2n so it's this year that BPK will be obsolete for newer titles.

Bright Memory: Infinite

Code:

*.pak

xtool(zlib)+srep+lolz

(58.60% Ratio)



*.png

precompmt+srep+lolz

(79.57% Ratio)



*.mp4

srep

(99.97% Ratio)



rest

razor

(16.73% Ratio)





Size Before - 10.8 GB                        After - 6.36 GB (58.88% Ratio)

CT: 6 hours and 20 minutes                DT: 9 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition

Code:

*.bsa

xtool(zlib)+srep+lolz

(54.5% Ratio)



FNVIntro.bik

bpk

(77.8% Ratio)



*.mp3

mpz (Multithread this with PMT/MTX)

(81.4% Ratio)



MailTitle.wav

msc (You can skip this however, its just 6 MB and can be passed to rz for simular result)



rest

razor

(60.1% Ratio)





Size Before - 9.4 GB                        After - 5.36 GB (57.02% Ratio)

CT: Don't have anymore but 5+ Hours         DT: 8 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Hike Isle

Code:

*.assets

*.resS

*.resource

(no extension)

srep+lolz

(12.17% Ratio)



rest

razor

(25.07% Ratio)





Size Before - 2.5 GB                        After - 321 MB (12.8% Ratio)

CT: 1 Hour and 45 Minutes        DT: 1 Minute (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Inscryption

Code:

*.assets

*.resS

*.resource

(no extension)

srep+lolz

(49.13% Ratio)



rest

razor

(23.82% Ratio)





Size Before - 3.3 GB                        After - 1.6 GB (48.48% Ratio)

CT: 1 Hour and 38 Minutes                DT: 2 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Mirror's Edge Catalyst

Code:

Ripped - Trial executable



*.cas

xtlz4(v12)+srep+lolz

(72.3% Ratio)         



rest

razor

(31.5% Ratio)





Size Before - 23 GB                        After - 16.5 GB (71.73% Ratio)

CT: 8 Hours and 40 Minutes        DT: 12 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Need for Speed: Payback – Deluxe Edition

Code:

This is compression of the full version with all DLCs and depots included



*.cas

xtlz4(v12)+srep+lolz

(~62% Ratio)



rest

razor

(20.58% Ratio)





Size Before - 27 GB                        After - 15.9 GB (58.88% Ratio)

CT: 10 Hours and 30 Minutes        DT: 15 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Papers, Please

Code:

*

razor



Size Before - 58 MB                        After - 24.4 (42.06% Ratio)

CT: 2 Minutes        DT: 2 Seconds (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

(This was done outside of Arc, the decompression is done with a simple bat)

PowerWash Simulator v1.1

Code:

*.bundle

xtool(unity plugin)+srep+lolz

(50.6% Ratio)



rest

razor

(37.1% Ratio)





Size Before - 6.6 GB                        After - 3.3 GB (50% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 12 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Sapper - Defuse The Bomb Simulator v1.0.18

Code:

*.assets

*.resS

*.resource

(no extension)

srep+lolz

(29.7%% Ratio)



rest

razor

(25.3% Ratio)





Size Before - 7.1 GB                        After - 2.1 GB (29.57% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 3 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Stray v1.4#227

Code:

Hk_project-WindowsNoEditor.pak

oo2reck+xtool(zlib)+srep+lolz

(70.2% Ratio)



rest

razor

(To not waste time with razor for bk2, pass them to srep+lz4/anything fast)





Size Before - 6.8 GB                        After - 4.7 GB (69.11% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 26 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Subnautica

Code:

Ripped - Soundtrack



*.assets

*.resS

*.resource

(no extension)

srep+lolz

(31.5% Ratio)



rest

razor

(79.9% Ratio)





Size Before - 7.4 GB                        After - 2.7 GB (36.45% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 6 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Super Meat Boy

Code:

rz/$gd=srep+lolz



Arc.groups: 

$gd

*.dat





Size Before - 486 MB                        After - 315 MB (64.1% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 10 Seconds (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

Super Meat Boy Forever

Code:

rz/$gd=srep+lolz/$bik=bpk

(I used PMT on Razor here)



Arc.groups: 

$gd

*.swfc

*.smbl

*.tga

*.rply



$bik

*.bik





Size Before - 5.2 GB                        After - 1.7 GB (32.4% Ratio)

CT: Lost data, sorry                        DT: 2 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

Code:

*.assets

*.resS

*.resource

(no extension)

srep+lolz

(33.83% Ratio)



*.mp4

lzma (~50mb smaller output compared to lz4/zstd)

(87.32% Ratio)



voice.deafult

srep

(99.87% Ratio)



rest

razor

(20.53% Ratio)





Size Before - 7.2 GB                After - 2.7 GB        (37.5% Ratio)

CT: 2 Hours and 40 Minutes        DT: 4 Minutes (On i5-4570s 4T/4C + 8GB RAM)

PS: If this type of method sharing is not useful in the thread anymore, delete this reply. And if the format in which they're shared is a bit bulky and mods want reformat, I'm happy to oblige. This is just a few games I've done for the month :)

Returnal has Leviathan inside. Unpacking on 24-threads CPU takes 3 hours and saves only 4 GBs compared to pure srep+lolz, don't bother.

I am newbie. this is what it says to me when I use it Skipped VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK (Larger than 2147483647)

Quote:

Originally Posted by KaktoR (Post 498784)

Make batch files for this, so you don't have to type all manually in cmd.

unpack.bat for quickbms

Code:

for %%f in (*.pck) do quickbms_4gb_files.exe -d -o -Y wwise.bms "%%f"

pause

xtool_erase.bat for xtool

Code:

xtool erase "VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK_extract\german" "VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK" test.xtl

This will delete all german voice files from the file.

PS: Make a backup of the file first ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FitGirl (Post 500205)

Returnal has Leviathan inside. Unpacking on 24-threads CPU takes 3 hours and saves only 4 GBs compared to pure srep+lolz, don't bother.

If you are stubborn and still want to compress the game regardless for archival purposes then I suggest using the unreal engine plugin with the method -mue4:leviathan:l9 include -s parameter as well to skip verification this way you can skip precompression part of the process because its the slowest part of compressing this game.

Note: Skip works provided you have used the correct oodle library.

Code:

Compressed 1 file, 462,045,227 => 1,175,858,081 bytes. Ratio 254.49%

Compression time: cpu 0.44 sec/real 4.67 sec = 9%. Speed 99.03 mB/s

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butza (Post 500220)

I am newbie. this is what it says to me when I use it Skipped VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK (Larger than 2147483647)

the original file must not be part of the extracted streams.

Did now the test.xtl file appeared, but the file itself did not change the size. what to do next with this file? file size does not decrease after erasing

Quote:

Originally Posted by KaktoR (Post 498784)

Make batch files for this, so you don't have to type all manually in cmd.

unpack.bat for quickbms

Code:

for %%f in (*.pck) do quickbms_4gb_files.exe -d -o -Y wwise.bms "%%f"

pause

xtool_erase.bat for xtool

Code:

xtool erase "VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK_extract\german" "VO_MEDIA.PC.PCK" test.xtl

This will delete all german voice files from the file.

PS: Make a backup of the file first ;)

The file will not change the size, but it is better compressable because the erased files are just overwritten with zero bytes (00).

Thanks, got it)

Quote:

Originally Posted by KaktoR (Post 500229)

The file will not change the size, but it is better compressable because the erased files are just overwritten with zero bytes (00).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Razor12911 (Post 500224)

Code:

Compressed 1 file, 462,045,227 => 1,175,858,081 bytes. Ratio 254.49%

Compression time: cpu 0.44 sec/real 4.67 sec = 9%. Speed 99.03 mB/s

Big welp

Code:

Extracted 1 file, 1,175,857,894 => 462,045,227 bytes. Ratio 254.49%

Extraction time: cpu 0.16 sec/real 260.22 sec = 0%. Speed 1.78 mB/s

All OK

I guess extraction time for the whole thing should take a half day :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by KaktoR (Post 500235)

Big welp

Code:

Extracted 1 file, 1,175,857,894 => 462,045,227 bytes. Ratio 254.49%

Extraction time: cpu 0.16 sec/real 260.22 sec = 0%. Speed 1.78 mB/s

All OK

I guess extraction time for the whole thing should take a half day :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Razor12911 (Post 500224)

aRrChIvAl pUrPoSeS

:rolleyes:

Don't worry, I've read it :D

It was just meant as another information :p

Football Manager 2023

*.fmf, *.dat, *.dbc:

Code:

xtool_zstd_dedup5+lolz
Everything else:

Code:

razor

5GB ---> 2.4GB

libzstd v1.4.7 used.

Atomic Heart (DEV BUILD)

*.pak
XTool (zlib)+sdrep+lzma2
78 gb > 84 gb > 59 gb > 28.7 gb

Rest Files
srep+lzma2

Repack's size = 29.7 gb
Install time = ~7 min.