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Simple Tutorial of Compressing GTAV
My PM box is flooded by member asking questions as to how some people managed to repacked Grand Theft Auto V to the 30-40GB region. Well this is how.
I saw the idea of reflate back in 2014, I left it because I didn't know how to make it work, but thanks to GOZARCK by making it a common compressor here on fileforums, it now has a purpose. Ok, all you need is a deflate decompressor (reflate), there are couple of threads and examples in this forum as to how to use reflate created by GOZARCK, after reflate, use srep on the result and then LZMA (LZMA can be swapped with something better, your choice). You can also try adding precomp to the party but your funeral. My GTAV is 60.5GB (Steam) (1.0.350.1), I say steam because on different version of GTA, I noticed a file like x64b.rpf is different, don't remember the size but all I know is that the one in steam is bigger than the one in that version. Grand Theft Auto V has about 43.7GB of data (game files + dlcs) excluding the audio and other files. Reflate can make that 43.7GB become 87.6GB (about 160 000 streams will be found), don't have srep information but the final size after both srep and LZMA is around 18-19GB, can be less with LZTurbo or something better from that point. Then you can just use copy/store compression for the audio files and executable files which are equal to 16.7GB. Do the math 18GB + 16.7GB ~ 34.7GB, else if you hard headed, you can use compression on the audio files, just use 7-Zip this time with its LZMA2 compression or use LZTurbo (I don't think msc works on GTAV Audio files). You can have final result of 34GB more or less without modifying or deleting anything. Warning: When using reflate on the whole game or at least that 43.7GB of data, you will have problems using srep because it will fail because it won't be able to allocate compression memory to process a huge file like that, you must use srep64 so that it can be allocated and have about 8GB or more RAM installed to proceed with compression, Srep64 will need about 5.5GB memory, if you don't have enough RAM then tough luck, but you can still try compressing with fingers crossed hoping that srep won't fail. Um, it is also possible to make conversion of this, already calculated and put solid compression into the equation, the result is 9xDVD5s or 5xDVD9s (can be pushed to 4xDVD9s). All that you should know is that compressing this game takes less than half a day, about 4 hours if your CPU has 8 threads, have 16GB RAM Installed and using SSD (At your own risk). With reflate, at least processing speed can be adjusted, if you set very high values, it slows down PC, but don't set low values though your PC can handle them under pressure, ran a couple of tests, reflate beats precomp with compression and decompression speed, the ratio differs though, sometimes precomp wins and sometime reflate wins. Before using reflate, just disable Windows Offender. Downclock CPU or leave it on Stock, reflate does have a tendency of producing Bluescreens (Well at least on my PC). My Grand Theft Auto V compression history (by file): Code:
x64a.rpf (46.4MB) x64a.ref (147MB) x64a.srep (94.5MB) x64a.arc (35.2MB)Code:
============================================================================//These Srep and LZMA results are false can be improved by compressing everything at once. And here are other reflate results: Code:
Compressor comparision: Code:
File : UI.sb from Need For Speed The RunSpeed and Size comparison: Code:
Precomp version used was: 0.43 (intense)But with all this information, lets not turn our heads away from what we had in the first place, either way, reflate is still in development. |
Well written article :D you really are a maestro of complexity :P
with that said regarding your CPU because you said that you take BSODs share model frequency and if overclocked :D |
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Downclock CPU or leave it on Stock, reflate does have a tendency of producing Bluescreens (Well at least on my PC)I think reflate all ago, except create blue screens...logically on standard PC, or at least when it is to overclocking in rock solid. |
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your overclock isnt stable enough unless you play with voltage !!!
i was running a 200.000 reflate batch yesterday :P when i BSODed so i went from 4.7 to ~ 4.3 ghertz now i know it was reflate :P here it is while i play some games, this was good to now that reflate can become very very aggresive on CPU; precomp on the other hand is only taking 1 core and is kinda old |
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can you post reflate program there are too many post which reflate i should use
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Blue screen is not about cpu, win tell you he can´t fill again the RAM because is fragmented or the first RAM slot is full or fragmented with high temperature. Win always try to use the first slot of RAM. Blue screen is Ram if cpu cant access to ram you get the blue screen. If cpu fail the pc shutdown.
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How the new guys dont see this beautiful info. Thanx Razor12911.
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that's still under development, development is very slow. I'll be uploading a test very soon though.
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if Razor keeps popping tools with this rate, i will be testing with saint Peter in the afterlife :P
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Razor12911 could you please post the files that you used to compress srep64, arc.ini and pack.bat
I am not able to compress files up to 2GB x64l.rpf x64q.rpf x64g.rpf I am using Reflate_1400.7z pc 8g thanks |
Razor, is your new reflate compatible with is done is good and effective for this GTA v conversion??
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@Razor i am using your reflate (which have 2GB limit).but everytime it gives greater size than your test.could you post the reflate that you used to compress
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