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

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Distant Worlds 2

$deflatepack=xtool:mpreflate+srep+lolz:d64:mtt1:mt12:mc1023/

This game uses LZ4, why preflate?

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

This game uses LZ4, why preflate?

To be honest, I aplied preflate on pngs and pdfs without even checking the amount of files (it's from a preset).

Which files use lz4? Bundles? Because gfs nor xtool (old) do nothing on them.

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Which files use lz4? Bundles? Because gfs nor xtool (old) do nothing on them.

Bundles, I am working on an XTool database for this one, nearly there with lz4hc but still got a way to go.

Streams: 262/923
Time: 00:00:01 (00:00:03)
Memory: 128 MB (128 MB)

You can discover this info by searching the magic number on Aluigi's site:

Xenko . Xenko / Stride Engine BUNDLE . lz4 . XKB1 [xenko.bms]

http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms_list.php

[Masquerade]

The WAVE audio from Distant Worlds 2 does not compress with MSC:

Compressed 7 files, 143,350,258 => 143,350,271 bytes. Ratio 100.00%
Compression time: cpu 0.17 sec/real 16.29 sec = 1%. Speed 8.80 mB/s
All OK

Instead, use TAK which I posted here.

Compressed 7 files, 143,350,258 => 97,043,321 bytes. Ratio 67.70%
Compression time: cpu 0.14 sec/real 15.06 sec = 1%. Speed 9.52 mB/s
All OK

[dixen]

Metro Exodus

*.Vfs## - vfsrec+srep+lolz
73 gb > 103 gb > 74 gb > 46 gb

audio .vfs## & video - srep+lzma2
2,7 gb > 2.4 gb

rest files
580 mb > 31 mb

Repack size - 48.5 gb

NOTE.
For decompession *.vfs## you need this tool
Thanks to Razor12911.

[pslove]

Hello everyone, What's the best method for State of Decay 2? Thank you!

[:( Sad8669]

Method : xtool:ue4,key+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:normal
Compression Time: 5.96 Hours
Decompression Time : 6.5 Minutes
Initial Size : 19.1 GB
Final Size: 7.38 GB
Info : Use "-c512mb" for XTool, XTool 0.4.4 used

• Ripped Files :

Engine/Binaries/Win64/CrashReportClient.pdb
Sifu/Binaries/Win64/Sifu-Win64-Shipping.pdb	
Engine/Content/SlateDebug/Fonts/LastResort.tps	
Engine/Content/SlateDebug/Fonts/LastResort.ttf

Thanks to Razor for unreal library, attached it below.

[dixen]

Age of Empires III (3): Definitive Edition (100.12.54545.0)

*.bar - Xtool(v0.46)+SREP+LOLZ
44.4 gb > 75.1 gb > 52 gb > 23.5 gb

.bk2 - srep+lzma2

rest files - srep+lolz

Ripped all non-english voice files

Install size = 45.6 gb
RePack size = 24.3 gb

NOTE. Repack used a-lz4-plugin by Edison007. Thanks him for this.

[Masquerade]

GhostWire Tokyo

Paks Folder:

For xtool, use -mgwtokyo -d1 for UCAS decryption. Oo2reck used for oodle kraken precompression since the older version of xtool (needed for gwtokyo database compatibility) is missing Razor's improvements to kraken precompression. Use a big chunk size for XTool because the encrypted streams are large.

xtool+oo2reck+srep+lolz

Everything else:

srep+razor

16.8GB ----> 13.4GB

[KaktoR]

Tiny Tinas Wonderlands
pak = zlib

[L33THAK0R]

Could anybody send me the decomp executable for ProFragers's "Media Stream Compressor (MSC)? Got a few thousand ".wav" files to sort through, as a handful are failing to decomp, would make troubleshooting heaps easier, cheers in advance.

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Could anybody send me the decomp executable for ProFragers's "Media Stream Compressor (MSC)? Got a few thousand ".wav" files to sort through, as a handful are failing to decomp, would make troubleshooting heaps easier, cheers in advance.

Dude, I already told you about the Krinkels rules before in a different topic. You cannot ask for Krinkels content!!

Внимание! Если вы получили статус "Пользователи" и будете предоставлять материал тем, кто его ещё не получил (по их просьбам через ЛС), то тут же будете лишены данного статуса навсегда.

Attention! If you received the status of "Users" and will provide material to those who have not yet received it (at their request via PM), then you will immediately lose this status forever.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

You cannot ask for Krinkels content!!

Cheers for the repeated heads up, but thankfully in prior cases I've had users reach out to me with the relevant resources, allowing me to be a tad cheeky and grab a given tool.

[Razor12911]

You can try to use the method -mtta in Freearc if sorting becomes a tedious job, most people don't know that Freearc does have wav file compressor but it only works if the audio files are not archived or in another container. Plus handing over files from that forum is against the rules.

Edit: I remember once having problems using msc on Left 4 Dead 2 which forced me to used Freearc's built in wav compressor.

left4dead2_dlc3\sound:
-mtta

Compressed 4,778 files, 1,315,603,487 => 649,582,676 bytes. Ratio 49.38%
Compression time: cpu 69.56 sec/real 142.00 sec = 49%. Speed 9.26 mB/s

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

You can try to use the method -mtta in Freearc if sorting becomes a tedious job, most people don't know that Freearc does have wav file compressor but it only works if the audio files are not archived or in another container. Plus handing over files from that forum is against the rules.

Edit: I remember once having problems using msc on Left 4 Dead 2 which forced me to used Freearc's built in wav compressor.

left4dead2_dlc3\sound:
-mtta

Compressed 4,778 files, 1,315,603,487 => 649,582,676 bytes. Ratio 49.38%
Compression time: cpu 69.56 sec/real 142.00 sec = 49%. Speed 9.26 mB/s

Ah cheers I'll give that a go, thankfully the archives are unpacked (as is required due to modding and fixing the titles numerous issues only being possible with unpacked archives) so this method should be viable, fingers crossed!