Red Faction Armageddon (1x DVD5) *INNO+FreeArc*
 

Red Faction Armageddon (1x DVD5) *INNO+FreeArc*

1) Extract 'RFA_1xDVD5.7z' contents

2) Move from Game's installation folder :

3) Re-encode the biks videos to a ~ 45-50% bitrate of original ones and then move them to 'RFA_DVD5\Movies' folder

4) Launch FreeArc and then compress the following folders in the Game's installation folder:

5) Move 'RFA.arc' to 'RFA_DVD5' folder

6) Burn or make iso with label name of your choice

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use RAD video.

But, for anyone can help me, using RAD video and encoding at 50% of original bitrate, the time of process is about 8 hours :eek: Is normal?

most of the smaller bik files should only take few seconds to process each file.

IE M01_CS_00.bik 135mb --> 10-12 mins to process it.

not too many that are of a huge size to process, so it shouldnt take too long to process them all. There's only 64 bik files to do.

Have not done any mistake, those BIK files have four audio tracks, so after recompress you need to extract/convert all audio tracks from original BIK to WAV files (Convert a file) and then mix every track back to recompressed BIK file (Mix in sound).

After trial and error I finally managed to do the conversion. :)
I used batch in RAD video tools. These are my steps are:
1. Recompress using Rad Video Tools of each BIKs, this step could take 12-14 hours and is CPU intensive so I recommend you to leave it by night. I use data rate compression 45% of original file size
2. Make extraction of each audio tracks from original BIKs to WAV (Convert a file), except files with legal*, MB_placeholder, RF4_mainmenu* (those have no sounds in them), logo* only have 1 audio track so, these don't need to be extracted.
3. Mix each audio tracks to the recompressed BIKS (Mix in sound)
4. Click Batch to copy paste the commands for each BIK, and click START

Below is an example of batch command for step 2 and 3 for file Q08_CS_12_5.bik:
Replace L:\build\pc\cache with your original image location, and G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\ with game installation folder

I did not convert the audio bitrate and freq, and I compressed the videos to 45% of original file size.
Use good text editor such as Notepad++ for writing batch commands.
With this I got 4.24 GB size of image (1x DVD5).
Arc size = 3.00 GB
Movies folder size = 1.21 GB

Tested the audio and working flawlessly on Win 7 x64!

Thank you for the nice job Peter! :cool:

dudul

many thanks for posting the batch commands you used in the process. I'm sure many others will now choose to do the conversion, as your posted commands will speed up the process for many.

I'm just wondering IF wanting to do only 1 language that the steps for re-mixing in 4 seperate audio tracks is necessary. ( I extracted 4 tracks from 1 bik, and 3 of 4 were different language so I choose just that track & remix that back into new file.

you have to remix ALL audio tracks as the movies are multichannel audio

Thanks Peterf1999....
Win 7 64 bits Ultimate!:D

Peter could make the conversion to 2 dvd5 thank you very much!!!!

Available here:

http://www.cd-2-dvd.com/2011/10/red-...d5-inno-setup/

1.extract .wav
2.re-encode .bik encoding 45% use 10 - 14 hours :eek:
3.delete original .bik files

4.mix
5.delete {step 1 folder}


THANK peterf1999 & dudul :D

Hi, thanks for the conversion, but, how can I start the compilation? I downloaded the attached file but I think there are files missing.

Yeah, you need to download Inno Setup yourself...

I have a problem with your conversion, can You please help me? I have tried to compile it with unicode ISC 5.4.2 and when i click compile this error pops up:

http://i43.tinypic.com/qq4b6h.jpg

After that I tried it with a non unicode one, and the setup compiled without the error, and when i run the installation and get to the part where the files should start copying and then the setup crashes and pops up: Setup error and needs to close.
http://i41.tinypic.com/2639g5v.jpg
Any idea what could be the problem?
p.s. Installation was done from iso's, conversion RFA + DLC.
p.s.2 Tried again, same problem.
Log:
Warning: Line 786, Column 15: [Hint] Variable 'N' never used
*** Finished. [21:21:06, 72:04.270 elapsed]

Had the same issue with Inno ansi, uninstalled that & installed UNI version. Script ran fine no errors, as you saw from the screenshots. Log Warning is normal.

Hi, thanks, I figured that out after looking at peterf1999's the witcher 2 conversion.:)

@Pakrat2k2
Thanks for your conversion, it worked great.:D
In the inno script RFA.iss, under [Icons], I found a couple of references to rage.exe, so I changed them to rf4_launcher.exe.

thanks for pointing that out I will make sure its the updated one.

EDIT: Just checked the ISS file & that line is commented out ( ; at beginning of the line ) but thanks for noting it anyways ;)