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

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by IRAQIGHOST

for try to get more size

Wtf. Why not use the correct codecs with appropriate chunk size instead?

And do not use the skip option if you don't know what you do.

[Fak Eid]

You tried compressing on just a single file. When you compress all the files it will be stuck forever. Do not try this as this is wrong.

Originally Posted by IRAQIGHOST

Starfield

DiskSpan
xt_zlib+xtool:s:mzlib+srep_new:3+LOLZ_ULTRA

Test File (Starfield - Animations.ba2)
Size: 319 MB >> 711 MB
Final Size: 170.56 MB

[IRAQIGHOST]

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

You tried compressing on just a single file. When you compress all the files it will be stuck forever. Do not try this as this is wrong.

Yes, I notice that in some files.

[KaktoR]

Should be enough

[Danziel123]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Should be enough

Why i get stuck at this?

Alredy tried with xtool:mreflate, xtool:mpreflate & xtool:mzlib still same. Maybe you know what cause it? Thank you

[Fak Eid]

Because the codecs can't read the stream of the file. The files contains encoded lz4 that can be compressed only using a certain plugin 'mstarfield' (starfield.dll). Leave out the wwise sound files and compress using that algo.. wwise sound can only be compressed using srep+lzma (as of my knowledge right now)

Originally Posted by Danziel123

Why i get stuck at this?

Alredy tried with xtool:mreflate, xtool:mpreflate & xtool:mzlib still same. Maybe you know what cause it? Thank you

[Danziel123]

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

Because the codecs can't read the stream of the file. The files contains encoded lz4 that can be compressed only using a certain plugin 'mstarfield' (starfield.dll). Leave out the wwise sound files and compress using that algo.. wwise sound can only be compressed using srep+lzma (as of my knowledge right now)

Here is my DSG_Settings for starfiled, is this right or not?

Data1.Name=Data1a-01.bin
Data1.InclText=*.ba2
Data1.ExclText=
Data1.Method1=xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mreflate:dd3+ LZMA-MT
Data2.Name=Data1b-01.bin
Data2.Method1=xtool:c256mb:mbk2:df20p+LZMA-MT
Data2.InclText=*.bk2
Data3.Name=Data1c-01.bin
Data3.Method1=xtool:dd3
Data3.ExclText=*.ba2|*.bk2

[Masquerade]

Quite a lot of audio in Starfield is WWISE PCM - meaning you can use MSC on it.

Other type of WWISE audio is Vorbis, which you can read more about in WemTool topic.

[Fak Eid]

xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mreflate+srep_new+lolz/lzma seems correct for all .ba2 files except WWise Sound files. Also as of now, DSG won't be able to extract the files. You need to do it with your installer only.

Originally Posted by Danziel123

Here is my DSG_Settings for starfiled, is this right or not?

[KaktoR]

^Yes, all of the *WwiseSounds* are PCM. The Language files are Vorbis it seems.

Streams: 18613 / 18613
Time: 00:03:05 (CPU 00:16:04)
Duplicates: 109 (100 MB) [113 MB >> 35.3 MB]

Size: 19.3 GB >> 6.94 GB >> 6.90 GB

Additional decoding memory is 79.7 MB
Decoding speed improved by up to 1.01x

Done!!!

I used flac plugin with l8 option here. I guess msc is better in terms of ratio but alot slower.

PS: And compression for the other files, files which have "02 00 00 00" in the beginning are compressed with zlib, "03 00 00 00" are compressed with lz4.

[KaktoR]

As for the WEM files in Starfield, seems like it does not make sense to process them.

xtool:dd3:l4

Compressed 125,234 files, 1,993,236,804 => 1,878,585,133 bytes. Ratio 94.25%
Compression time: cpu 6.13 sec/real 44.43 sec = 14%. Speed 44.87 mB/s
All OK

Compressed 1 file, 1,870,743,269 => 1,839,107,129 bytes. Ratio 98.31%
Compression time: cpu 0.52 sec/real 63.26 sec = 1%. Speed 29.57 mB/s
All OK

[KaktoR]

BioShock Infinite
v31.08.2022

 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c320mb:mbik
 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1b-01.bin was: uelr+xtool:c128mb:mzlib+xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma
 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1c-01.bin was: xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 19:08:31 - Overall input size: 43.20 GB
 19:08:31 - Overall output size: 15.32 GB (Ratio 35.47%)
 19:08:31 - Overall conversion time: 02:14:23

[Fak Eid]

Why did everyone started using xtool:dd3 instead of srep_new:3. It it better?

Originally Posted by KaktoR

BioShock Infinite
v31.08.2022

 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c320mb:mbik
 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1b-01.bin was: uelr+xtool:c128mb:mzlib+xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma
 16:54:07 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1c-01.bin was: xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 19:08:31 - Overall input size: 43.20 GB
 19:08:31 - Overall output size: 15.32 GB (Ratio 35.47%)
 19:08:31 - Overall conversion time: 02:14:23

[KaktoR]

Because it's faster.

Edit: "3" in dd# just represents the srep m#f setting m[1..5]. You can even use dd5 to get a bit better results in costs of speed.

Edit2: A bit old, but my test in the past when this feature was introduced: https://fileforums.com/showthread.ph...129#post499129

[Masquerade]

@KaktoR did you try using xtool unreal 3 for the lzo? I'm interesred in the performance vs uelr.