Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[Spinneret94]

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The game is massive, can you provide a small sample file from the game?
ps: 300-400 mb should be more than enough.

[KaktoR]

1.4.4 or 1.4.5

There's xtool library checker you know

[wareck]

for Clive Barker's Hellraiser - Revival
I used this:

08:23:46 - Selected ARC method for Data1.bin was: xtool:mkraken:mmermaid:core_2.9.10:lib_2:dd3+lolz: d72:mtt1:mt16:mc1023
08:23:46 - Selected ARC method for Data2.bin was: xtool:lm:c1536mb:mbk2:df20p:dd3
08:23:46 - Selected ARC method for Data3.bin was: xtool:mzlib:mpreflate:mpng:d1:dd3+lolz:d72:mtt1:mt 16:mc1023
20:40:52 - » Installation folder size: 72,44 GB
20:40:52 - » Data1.bin file size: 47,37 GB
20:40:52 - » Data2.bin file size: 4,80 GB
20:40:52 - » Data3.wrk file size: 229,98 MB
20:40:52 - » Compressed game size: 52,40 GB (Ratio 72.32%)

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

for gears of war 4 I believe
unreal plugin does not work because that game uses a format that's in between ue3 and ue4
so you gotta use the unreal bms script
Bundles-UWP-30.pak is a problematic file that be annoying to xtool as such, you have to first edit the first 65536 bytes to some random shit, remove the zeroes

or that Bundles-UWP-30.pak should be processed separately
that's the solution before anybody asks...
oh and the method is lz4hc:l9

I will leave this here

[dixen]

Bundles-UWP-30.pak

All Bundles-UWP-##.pak doesn't work with QBMS

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by dixen

All Bundles-UWP-##.pak doesn't work with QBMS

Try this

From Razor12911

[dixen]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Try this

From Razor12911

It works.

Compressing Bundles-UWP-0.pak
Compressed 1 file, 9,145,864,744 => 11,639,426,600 bytes. Ratio 127.26%
Compression time: cpu 13.64 sec/real 170.47 sec = 8%. Speed 53.65 mB/s
All OK

However, QBMS identified nearly 22,000 files with a size of zero.

GearGame\ 14,0 Гб 16.10.2026 19:03 ----
Engine\ 4,3 Мб 16.10.2026 19:03 ----
0000000000006cb5.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb4.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb3.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb2.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb1.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cad.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cab.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cac.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006caa.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca8.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca7.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca6.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca5.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca4.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca3.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca2.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca1.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca0.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--

Testing 1 file, 9,145,864,744 bytes. Processed 0.0%
ERROR: write error (disk full?) in compression algorithm xtool

[hwang4]

best method ? thx!

[KaktoR]

Planet Zoo 2

 19:50:27 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: wwise+xtool:mkraken:core_2.9.0:lib_2+xtool:c128m:mzlib:dd3:l10,d128mb
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 20:52:54 - Overall game size: 42,35 GB
 20:52:54 - Overall input size: 42,35 GB
 20:52:54 - Overall output size: 16,90 GB (Processed ratio 39.90%) (Ratio 39.90%)
 20:52:54 - Overall conversion time: 01:02:25

Install time 15min

[hwang4]

XTool is created by Razor12911

Version 0.9.9

Processing input: E:\_GamesPC\Valor Mortis

Streams: 6529
- zlib = 1063 (0,01%)
- png = 269 (0,00%)
- kraken = 5164 (0,28%)
- mermaid = 1 (0,00%)
- flac = 3 (0,00%)
- brunsli = 1 (0,00%)
- zstd = 28 (0,00%)

Time: 00:07:54 (CPU 00:25:52)

Done!!!


what should i use ?

[KaktoR]

Try this key

0x2FA73CDEB02CDDB158A395F170D1D09F2D2084435B95EB8C2F06B974F95195C5

[ZakirAhmad]

Originally Posted by Simorq

Gears Of War 4 / 74.7 GB

GOW 4 uses unreal engine 4, does uelr work on this.

[Sergey3695]

Originally Posted by ZakirAhmad

GOW 4 uses unreal engine 4, does uelr work on this.

where did you find this? (Simorq's msg)

[ZakirAhmad]

Originally Posted by Sergey3695

where did you find this? (Simorq's msg)

what???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_of_War_4

[Sergey3695]

Originally Posted by ZakirAhmad

what???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_of_War_4

Sorry. I'm a stupid morning