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

[K4miKaZe]

No idea, with a crc file it should be easy to see if there is something missing. I recommend to do it on every pack because even if the game starts and is playable it can have missing files or bad files. Maybe different game versions or something (not always us and eu versions are exactly the same). But if you two say that your original size are 27.0gb then its strange like hell but it can be that the data on this 27gb is slightly different (maybe you dont have same amount of vids but have other files like dlc stuff or something). Thats why sfv files are so useful too. And game updates can make hugh differences too, for example on one of my last games, hitman, i had it previously on 22,8gb but have redone it after the 1.14.2 patch (around 300mb more in size). Doing it with same method gave me 22,6 (even with the game having bigger size).

Edit: Grumpy, thank you very much for taking your time and restoring them !!!

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

No idea, with a crc file it should be easy to see if there is something missing. I recommend to do it on every pack because even if the game starts and is playable it can have missing files or bad files. Maybe different game versions or something (not always us and eu versions are exactly the same). But if you two say that your original size are 27.0gb then its strange like hell but it can be that the data on this 27gb is slightly different (maybe you dont have same amount of vids but have other files like dlc stuff or something). Thats why sfv files are so useful too. And game updates can make hugh differences too, for example on one of my last games, hitman, i had it previously on 22,8gb but have redone it after the 1.14.2 patch (around 300mb more in size). Doing it with same method gave me 22,6 (even with the game having bigger size).

Edit: Grumpy, thank you very much for taking your time and restoring them !!!

honestly i am not at all worried i test unpack after anything i do i use 3 data files to prevent me from having to redo an entire game if only one section messes up

[Grumpy]

@K4miKaZe
I have seen you write 'your English is not good' ... I think your English is great for a Spanish speaking person but I hope you don't mind if I correct 2 words I have seen you and others either use wrong or misspelled .... this is only to help your English ....

Hugh should be 'Huge'

I have also seen the word 'spelled' used by a few people here, even though it is not actually wrong to use 'spelled' you can also use 'spelt' for past tense of 'spell'.

Another word I see here a lot is 'learned', again it is not wrong but 'learnt' is also used as the past tense of 'learn'.

I guess it depends on if you are using US English or UK English but both are technically correct. In Australia we are mostly taught UK English in schools. (for the record I finished school far to many years ago to mention but I believe they now allow both the UK and US spelling here in Australian schools, like 'colour' and 'color', 'honour' and 'honor' etc.)

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

@K4miKaZe
I have seen you write 'your English is not good' ... I think your English is great for a Spanish speaking person but I hope you don't mind if I correct 2 words I have seen you and others either use wrong or misspelled .... this is only to help your English ....

Hugh should be 'Huge'

I have also seen the word 'spelled' used by a few people here, even though it is not actually wrong to use 'spelled' you can also use 'spelt' for past tense of 'spell'.

Another word I see here a lot is 'learned', again it is not wrong but 'learnt' is also used as the past tense of 'learn'.

I guess it depends on if you are using US English or UK English but both are technically correct. In Australia we are mostly taught UK English in schools. (for the record I finished school far to many years ago to mention but I believe they now allow both the UK and US spelling here in Australian schools, like 'colour' and 'color', 'honour' and 'honor' etc.)

Thanks, i know its not bad at all. I always liked english as a language and almost "learnt" it by myself. On school only for 2 years but it was very basic and it was 20 years ago (hell, im old haha). You are right, here in Spain many people are bad in english, many dont even speak it because its not a priority on the schools. I was lucky because i was born in Germany and was there many years, did the school there and english was required. Also hanging out in english forums, chats, have friends in us and uk should help much too.

Maybe you can be my new personal english teacher ?

[oltjon]

Two Point Hospital

game size 3.46 Gb
compressed game size 1.14 Gb

NOTHING ripped
NOTHING re-encoded
ALL languages


Srep v3.92 library By Bulat Ziganshin
Lolz v2.1.a.7 library By ProFrager


compression time 3.20 hours + -
decompression time 3 - 4 min + -

all files srep + lolz data1.cab

intel core i7 4 cores 2.9Mhz
6GB ram

[dixen]

Originally Posted by oltjon

Two Point Hospital

game size 3.46 Gb
compressed game size 1.14 Gb

NOTHING ripped
NOTHING re-encoded
ALL languages


Srep v3.92 library By Bulat Ziganshin
Lolz v2.1.a.7 library By ProFrager


compression time 3.20 hours + -
decompression time 3 - 4 min + -

all files srep + lolz data1.cab

intel core i7 4 cores 2.9Mhz
6GB ram

Something for a long time. srep+lolz - 1.20 gb, Compression time - 30 min
i5-7400, 8 gm ram
srep+dlz - 1.25 gb, 20 min

[NexusIV]

Original Size 18.5GB > 15.3GB

*.Cpk = Xtool+Srep+Lolz

all the other files = Lolz

where:

[Xtool 32bit v0.9]
XTool.exe e:precomp:c256mb,t4:crilayla

[Srep v3.93]
Srep -m5f -d1g -c64 -a1 

[Lolz v21a7]
Lolz -dt1 -dtp1 -dtb1 -dto1 -dtm1 -dtw1 -dtd1 -mtt1 -mt8 -d128m -oh14 -fba4096 -mc1023 -bc8 -blr8 -bm8 -pc4

Compression Time: 5-6 hr
Decompression TIme: 10-15 min

** Forgive me. I forgot to report that if you have problems while compressing the * cpk files, try to compact them separately. In my case I used Srep v3.93 because with Srep v3.92 I've had CRC errors


Regards
NexusIV

[felice2011]

Originally Posted by NexusIV

Original Size 18.5GB > 15.3GB

*.Cpk = Xtool+Srep+Lolz

all the other files = Lolz

where:

[Xtool 32bit v0.9]
XTool.exe e:precomp:c256mb,t4:crilayla

[Srep v3.93]
Srep -m5f -d1g -c64 -a1 

[Lolz v21a7]
Lolz -dt1 -dtp1 -dtb1 -dto1 -dtm1 -dtw1 -dtd1 -mtt1 -mt8 -d128m -oh14 -fba4096 -mc1023 -bc8 -blr8 -bm8 -pc4

Compression Time: 5-6 hr
Decompression TIme: 10-15 min

** Forgive me. I forgot to report that if you have problems while compressing the * cpk files, try to compact them separately.


Regards
NexusIV

Boh .. I do not understand use a method or a masked method, what means "all the other files = Lolz" if the first method already uses as a last lolz compressor.

[st0rm]

Installed Game Size (Multi-6) : 3,95 GB

Compressed Size : 2,12 GB

Install Time : ~15 Minutes

Nothing Ripped or Re-encoded

Method : precomp046:intense+srep:m3f+lzma

[K4miKaZe]

Title:           Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition
Version:         v1.4.1 (incl. all dlcs)
PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 8GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    All foreign languages

Original Size:   16.8 GB
Compressed Size: 5.04 GB

Mask Method:     uelr:uv+srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on *.tfc/*.upk files
                 binkpack on *.bik files
                 srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on rest of files
                
Compress Time:   2 hours 30 minutes (9143.93 sec)
Install Time:    4 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Dishonored 2 in some hours !!!

[darkwolves]

update on post
https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=262


WWE 2K15 with all extra content

[oltjon]

Space Hulk: Tactics

game size 3.97 Gb
compressed game size 2.61 Gb

NOTHING ripped
NOTHING re-encoded
ALL languages

xtool 0.9 library By Razor12911
Srep v3.92 library By Bulat Ziganshin
Lolz v2.1.a.7 library By ProFrager


compression time 8 hours + -
decompression time 6 min + -

file.pak xtool zlib+ srep + lolz data1.cab
all the rest srep + lolz data2.cab

intel core i7 4 cores 2.9Mhz
6GB ram

[K4miKaZe]

Bufff, Dishonored 2 is the only game i had so many issues, its a real pain. Tried xtool,ztool,pzlibv3 and nothing works. Tried some old dlls that razor published and it inflates well with them but on installation i got every time crc missmatch (unpacking didnt work as well). Now im trying it with reflate, already done around 10gb on test files and checked crc. Seems to work for that game but its slow, slow like a turtle (or even slower haha). For 500mb test (got that file into 50mb) it tooks over 10 minutes. So total time should be around 14-15 hours. If it works i will publish it later, probably this night or tomorrow.

[KaktoR]

I had a simmilar issue with FF Type-0 HD back in the days. Whenever I used xtool/ztool on all the *.pac files, unpacking gave me crc error on "pack4.pac". I had to exclude this file from all others and compress the file alone with zlib, then it worked well. Really strange.

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

I had a simmilar issue with FF Type-0 HD back in the days. Whenever I used xtool/ztool on all the *.pac files, unpacking gave me crc error on "pack4.pac". I had to exclude this file from all others and compress the file alone with zlib, then it worked well. Really strange.

Yeah, had some of these problems too. But solved it by trying different xtool/ztool versions but with this game its impossible. What is strange is that an old tool like reflate can handle it without problem, or at least at the 10gb test files i used, wish it would be at least 50% faster. The ratio looks very good and thats the main reason i continue with this or the game goes directly to Recycle (that will have a better ratio ).

As for Type-0 HD you can use xtool 0.9 without any problems on all files (x64)