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

[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

[darkwolves]

pzlib+srep64+delta+lzma:ultra:a1:mfbt4:d158m:fb273 :mc1000000000:lc8

original game size 15.8 gb

repack size 5.73 gb

----note
yes the game is frostbite engine but it is frostbite 2 pzlib, precomp etc
work on it..

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
One language, without HD/4K Packs

*.arch06 => oodle(ZTool)+srep+lzma
*.vib => m0
all other files => srep+lzma

Note: *.vib files are bk2 files, but some files give unpack error if you use BPK on them (I wasn't in the mood to test file by file and sort out the faulty ones). If you do this you could save about ~2GB for sure.

92.8GB => 53.8GB

Time:

16:15:53 - Starting Data1.bin.001 creation
 3:13:01 - Finished Data1.bin.001 creation
 3:13:03 - Starting Data2.bin.001 creation
 3:20:28 - Finished Data2.bin.001 creation
 3:20:32 - Starting Data3.bin.001 creation
 3:25:44 - Finished Data3.bin.001 creation

Edit: You will get 52.3GB with BPK on *.vib files (rename them to *.bk2). Just make sure to exclude the 1kb files, they give unpack error.