Thank you for suggestion, change it to xtool:dd now can compress till finish:)

BioShock Infinite
v31.08.2022

Why did everyone started using xtool:dd3 instead of srep_new:3. It it better?

Because it's faster.

Edit: "3" in dd# just represents the srep m#f setting m[1..5]. You can even use dd5 to get a bit better results in costs of speed.

Edit2: A bit old, but my test in the past when this feature was introduced: https://fileforums.com/showthread.ph...129#post499129

@KaktoR did you try using xtool unreal 3 for the lzo? I'm interesred in the performance vs uelr.

ANNO 1800
Update 18.0

Thanks for the update. If dd3 can help me compressing the same size as srep and with less extraction time, I'll go ahead with it. My focus is to improve extraction speed at a cost of minimum difference in compression size. I'll try that for sure.

Watch Dogs Database Generation
 

I know Masquerade made a database recently for the first "Watch Dogs" title, however I've found myself needing to re-generate a new database in my own conversion, as I've opted to include a variety of mods that restore features left on the cutting room floor as well as providing the end-user access to content previously only accessible through online-only interactions. This restoration overwrites a considerable amount of existing files, as such a new database is required.

My current database seems to be considerably smaller than Masquerade's however, with a final result of 3.84 MiB (versus Masquerade's 14.0 MiB). The only issue I can currently see is when the fat2_fat3.bms script attempts to process the "windy_city.fat/.dat" which gives the following error:

I'm assuming this is referring to

however my bms2xtl.ini configuration file seems to be fine:

I've ensured I've got the latest version of the xmemcompress plugin present, and its appropriate entry within "xtool.ini" is pretty standard

I'm honestly scratching my head trying to figure out what I've messed up this time, even more so by the fact that the file "windy_city.fat/.dat" is one such file that hasn't been modified. Any tips would be greatly appreciated, its definitely been gnawing away at me.

the window and partition for xmemcompress should be 32768 I believe, those configurations are for project cars

as for the other errors, I'm not so sure

DOOM Eternal v6.66 Rev 2.2

• *.streamdb, *.resources, *.lightdb
  
  Code:

  ---

  xtool_kraken:l6_doom7*_dd+xtool_kraken:l6_doom8*_dd+srep+lolz

  ---

• *.bk2**
  
  Code:

  ---

  xtool_bink2_dd5_fl2

  ---

• *.bik
  
  Code:

  ---

  xtool_bink_dd5_fl2

  ---

• Everything else:
  
  Code:

  ---

  razor

  ---

* Using these two oodle libraries.

** All bk2 except vs_first.bk2, vs_second.bk2 and doommarinesymbol_wide_fade.bk2.

88.7GB ---> 56GB

The Sims 4 [v1.100.147.1030 + All DLCs]

58.7GB ---> 36.4GB

Why excluding? Does the modified bink plugin go crazy again? :D

The modified import does indeed fix motion data warn but it does not fix err. Trying to compress the folder with those 3 videos present will just leave XTool hanging.

Could you send me one of these files? Thanks.

Edit: I looked, and I don't have any problems with the patched bink plugin.

XCOM 2
version 28 March 2022

WEMTool was used for *.wem files.

Oggre Anomaly, a word of warning for those packing "Nioh 2".
 

Has anyone else experienced some issues with Oggre when processing a large amount of streams? I'm currently working on "Nioh 2", whose audio can be extracted into a readable Vorbis Ogg format. I individually packed every file (~9000) and compared the original file checksums to determine which files were incompatible and removed them accordingly. In the past this process has never failed me and has always without fail resulted in a successful decompression of those particular assets, however this time around it seems I'm left with a bit of a confusing result. Attempting to pack all the streams together results in the installer, presumably due to the CLS Oggre plugin, crashing.

Investigating the issue by creating a large stored archive of all files in their packable format shows a much clearer image:

My current solution I'll be employing for my conversion is simply post-install, unpacking the stored archive with the "temp" packable files, then using a patch made between the temp files and a stored archive of the original files.

I'll be then putting these 2 files alongside each other into one large archive, whilst praying I can squeeze some small gains but I'm under no illusion it'll almost certainly be a satisfactory result. Definitely not happy about the amount of additional R/W operations that'll be performed on the end-users drive, but its the best solution I can come up with.

I should mention I was able to process the audio from the original "Nioh" without any trouble, which follows the same structure as "Nioh 2", with a pretty decent final result of 20.3 GB for v1.21.04 of the Complete Edition release for "Nioh".

UPDATE: I ran an additional test with the original unmodified audio archives packed with a generic srep + lolz configuration, when alls said and done, srep actually works well with the duplicated data, resulting in an inflated final result of only 390MB. Given the negligible gains compared to the amount of data that would would need to be written (~16gb) for the original patching approach to work, I think for the time being, and in the interests of the end-user, I'll sacrifice this 390MB.

Yeah, oggre is a mess.

Mirror's Edge Catalyst Woes
 

Can anyone recommend which library and/or version of XTool to use for processing "Mirror's Edge: Catalyst"'s LZ4 streams? I recently tried running my collection of LZ4 libraries against a 100MB sample, using XTool 0.7.8 however seemingly none of them were of any use (see the following pastebin output). I've had success in the past with another LZ4 Frostbite 3 title, "Battlefield: Hardline", however attempting to use the same library for Catalyst results in 0 streams being detected/processed.

I can only find one user actually succeeding to pre-compress Catalyst, who indicates they used "xtlz4(v12)" but I've no idea if this refers to the library or tool.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm properly stumped with this one.

Try its probably used old Xtool v0.12 with old lz4 libraries. (or used mixed/replaced in game related lz4 library dll.) Check it...

If I remeber correct, 1.8.0+ should do it.

Edit:
lz4 library 1.8.3. Try with others aswell

Mary Skelter Finale

12.8GB ---> 8.7GB

Golf With Your Friends [Build 12062185]

5.1GB ---> 2.5GB

Wild question, but would anyone happen to have a backup of the tool linked here?
https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=11106

The blog link is offline. The page is on the Wayback Machine, but the actual file download is blocked behind a xentax login so the file isn't on the wayback machine annoyingly.

https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...82&postcount=2
Use the frostbite 3 plugin for this game -mfrostbite3:lz4

I should have specified I was having difficulty with finding streams using the frostbite 3 plugin, turns out though I was just testing against a sample that didnt have any streams :o

Once I tried against a larger sample the plugin worked perfectly, many thanks for your hard-work on it!

Would that be it? -> https://www.moddb.com/downloads/dpk4util

Thanks for the link but that is for DPK4, I was looking for DPK5 version. It's alright now though, the game in question only used zlib so I've done it and moved on.

Forza Horizon 5 V 1.604.481

Repack Size: 104 Gb
Final Size: 164 Gb

PAYDAY 3

Repack Size: 18.7 Gb
Final Size: 46 Gb

New Oodle Library (v0.1.0, as reported by oodle_ver.exe) Assistance Needed
 

I've been investigating a 2017 title "Lone Echo", which seems to use a previously undocumented Oodle Library, v0.1.0, and whose CRCs don't match any other libraries, as posted by KaktoR.

Attempting to discern which member of the oodle family is used has proven to be a tad tricky, with each sample spitting back a result of [0] (Invalid/Unknown) as reported by Razor's Oodle Stream Scanner (oo2scan_7_win64.exe) utility. Attached is both a sample and the library in question. Since these streams are coming up as Invalid/Unknown is it not possible to re-compress them?

I wouldn't say it is undocumented. The problem is that the game in question is exclusively for the oculus rift vr thing. Libraries can differ on different platforms.

And if I look at all the code in shared library, it differs much from the pc equivalent.

Witchfire

Repack Size: 16.3 GB
Final Size: 23.5 Gb

Cyberpunk 2077

I did a bit of digging in last few days. Here are some observations. Maybe you might find it usefull.

• Contains WEM's, BNK's and BIN's.
• For the majority of WEM's and BIN's you can use WEMTool from Masquerade (rename *.bin to *.wem first).
• For some of the files you have to use MSC, look out for this. Honestly I did not have checked how much files are affected by this, and I don't even know if there are tools out there which can check for specific blocks or decoded text to separate the files to be used by WEMTool or MSC.

These two files contains bink2 files, for which you can use the xtool bink plugin. However the file "ep1_2_gamedata.archive" also contains other files alongside with bink2's, so I guess it should be wise to process the file together with all the other archive files if you don't want to extract the file entirely. However the binks are stored as plain text, so you can patch them out of the file and compress the extracted binks together with the "basegame_5_video.archive" file. Patch them back afterwards (not tested). Bink2 files have *.bin extension.

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You can unpack the archives with WolvenKit.
I used the console version and used command like this

Use VGMStream to check audio info.

Cyberpunk 2077
v2.0, incl DLC, 2 languages, incl bonus content

Same as above but packed all archive files together

hi, any info for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 ?


it seem not work, may be anyone have other aes KEY, i try Fmodel, pak file still encrypt

Try QuickBMS if possible?

Tony Hawk uses a non-standard encryption scheme such that decryption is possible using the attached script, but encryption is not.

https://files.catbox.moe/08vsy7.bms

Forza Motorsport best method !
 

I tried xtool but can't precompress it, and lolz only does nothing
What i miss here :confused:

^^
Please may you share a small sample?
Edit: https://www.fileforums.com/showpost....&postcount=383