XTool 2020 (Main Project)

[Razor12911]

There were undocumented changes in xtool 0.6.5, --dedup can be used as -dd so you are able to pass this via freearc provided your arc.ini looks like this

[External compressor:xtool]
header    = 0
packcmd   = xtool.exe precomp { -option} -c32mb -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = xtool.exe decode -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>

then your method will be something like -mxtool:mzlib:dd

[shazzla]

Thanks ,Z !
If there are other undocumented changes ,it would be nice to publish!

[bunti_o4u]

I am trying to compress Madel of Honor Airborne with xtool but it's not inflating the input files.

Here is the sample:

https://www62.zippyshare.com/v/3b32KZZm/file.html

Result with uelr:

Compressing 2 files, 177,974,335 bytes using uelr:uv

Compressed 2 files, 177,974,335 => 181,783,854 bytes. Ratio 102.1%         
Compression time: cpu 0.13 secs, real 2.30 secs. Speed 77,496 kB/s
All OK

[External compressor:uelr]
header = 0
packcmd = uelr {option} $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

Result with xtool:

Compressing 2 files, 177,974,335 bytes using XTool2K20:mue3:c128m:t75p

Compressed 2 files, 177,974,335 => 177,974,456 bytes. Ratio 100.0%         
Compression time: cpu 0.13 secs, real 3.12 secs. Speed 57,116 kB/s
All OK

[External compressor:XTool2K20]
header    = 0
packcmd   = XTool precomp {-option } - - <stdin> <stdout>

IDK what is wrong with xtool compression.

[dixen]

Originally Posted by bunti_o4u

IDK what is wrong with xtool compression.

XTool niot supported decompress ue3 lzo files

[Razor12911]

Update available

Changes

- fixed issues with exporting precompression database
- fixed issues with deduplication feature consuming a lot of system memory
- fixed oodle codec from auto enabling selkie method
- fixed reflate related checksum issues due to false positives

[dixen]

XTool 0.6.6

Test Psychonauts 2

Tested 1 file, 69,667,416,567 => 31,496,410,866 bytes. Ratio 221.19%
Testing time: cpu 11.56 sec/real 443.22 sec = 3%. Speed 71.06 mB/s
All OK

Before that, absolutely all versions issued CRC ERROR in zlib+reflate mode.
@Razor12911, thank you for fix

[Masquerade]

@Razor
Thanks for the update and your continued work

[shazzla]

@Razor12911 :

Xtool 066 bug.

xtool.exe precomp -mreflate -c32mb -t100p --verbose - - < %1 > %1.out

Streams: 11678/11678
Time: 00:00:25 (00:00:22)
Memory: 291 MB (291 MB)

arc.ini :

xtool066\xtool.exe precomp { -option} {options} -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>

cmd :

arc a -mxtool:mreflate:c32mb p:\output.arc "p:\input.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: p:\dd.arc
Compressed 1 file, 185,868,230 => 516,491,144 bytes. Ratio 277.88%
Compression time: cpu 0.17 sec/real 6.18 sec = 3%. Speed 30.10 mB/s
All OK

But when dedup enabled: --dedup, -dd, :dd (via arc.ini ,cmd line pararmeter ,etc. Same effect):

xtool.exe precomp -mreflate -c32mb -dd -t100p --verbose - - < %1 > %1.out

EStreamError: TBufferedStream.Seek not implemented

arc.ini :

xtool066\xtool.exe precomp { -option} {options} -dd -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>

cmd :

$ arc a -mxtool:mreflate:c32mb p:\output.arc "p:\input.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) updating archive: p:\dd.arc
Compressing 1 file, 185,868,230 bytes. Processed 100%
ERROR: general (de)compression error in xtool:mreflate:c32mb

P/Reflate,Zlib ,it doesnt matter ,same error.

[Razor12911]

Update available

Changes

- fixed oodle scanner exceptions when incorrect library is used
- fixed issues with deduplication feature

[aleison]

How can I add the new version of Xtool to ultraarc to compress using SREP+LZMA+XTOOL? and how to add the same decompression method to an inno setup script? please help I have not been able to follow, thank you very much.

[Razor12911]

Hi, I recommend that you use DiskSpan GUI as the project currently has support and UltraARC has long been abandoned.

[aleison]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

Hi, I recommend that you use DiskSpan GUI as the project currently has support and UltraARC has long been abandoned.

Thank you very much Razor what happens is that when compressing a game using the method Precomp (Ztool) + LOLZ + SREP, I get the following error when decompressing:

An error occured while unpacking: Does not match checksum!
Unarc.dll returned an error code: -12
Error: file D:\Program Files Plague Tale Requiem REPACK JPW\DATAS\SHARED.DPC failed CRC check.

Other games I compress and decompress with this method without problems, but I don't know why I get this error with this game, I have tried to compress it several times and I get the same error when decompressing it. Can you please help me if you can do something? thank you very much for your help.

[Masquerade]

^^
This is the XTool topic and you are asking about ZTool.

ZTool has been long since discontinued and is missing countless improvements added to both old XTool and XTool 2020.

[aleison]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

^^
This is the XTool topic and you are asking about ZTool.

ZTool has been long since discontinued and is missing countless improvements added to both old XTool and XTool 2020.

Thanks for answering, I have another doubt, could you tell me exactly what information I have to enter in ARC.ini to decompress a compressed file using XTOOL(xZlib)+SREP+LOLZ methods? I did everything, but I always get an error: unarc.dll -2 compression method not supported xZlib+SREP.

[Masquerade]

^^
... this is the XTool topic now you are asking about your issues with DiskSpanGUI.

DiskSpanGUI has a built in decompressor area for your archives so you can decompress them without issues.