Newbie Question Thread

[KaktoR]

srep should still find many duplicates. Just try it out on a single archive file

[SergeyVeter]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

srep should still find many duplicates. Just try it out on a single archive file

That's what I did. It took 26 hours, but it was worth it. I used two versions of GOG (1.63 and 2.31), one language, no bonuses and in the 2.31 version, I replaced the original videos with the ones not re-encoded from Nexus (2GB instead of 12GB). The total size was 138GB, compressed to 63GB. I'm more than happy with the result; the archive is going into my collection! 🔥🔥🔥

Overall input size: 138,78 GB
Overall output size: 63,19 GB (Ratio 45.53%)
Overall conversion time: 26:36:52

As for installation time, I'll report back later; I'm currently installing it!

UDT: Installation time: 2:52 (R7 5700X, 16Gb)

[FarhanFaudTahix]

hello can anyone provide me with the exe version of bpk

[Masquerade]

bpk

[Razer-785]

Hello i have multiple questions for Diskspan GUI 2.0.2.4

1. Is SREP-4.90G stable/reliable? -i know it says wip but still I'm still curious.

2. Whats the difference between cls-new and cls-old

3. Is there a way to make msc_tak use more then 4 threads

4. Whats the best settings for all-around use, i know that technically does not exist and that you need to use custom settings for each game.

For now i have been using:"xtool:o:mzlib+msc_tak+srep_new:490g+LOLZ_UL TRA" with descent results but i want to hear what you guys think.

Thanks.

[KaktoR]

1. It should be. The goal is to have as many options as possible.

2. Same as 1.

3. No. MSC can only use 4 threads max.

4. Depends on the algo a game is using. Nowadays most games - especially UE5 slop - using oodle kraken/mermaid.

The "" parameter is optimizing decode for oodle and zstd algos. The ratio stays the same. Honestly I didn't tested it much.

[kj911]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

3. No. MSC can only use 4 threads max.

Hexediting tricks from MSC.exe file, not solve it?? In last TAK use max. 8 threads.

[Razer-785]

Originally Posted by kj911

Hexediting tricks from MSC.exe file, not solve it?? In last TAK use max. 8 threads.

Can you explain how to do that?

[wrathma]

is there any reason to use zstdrec and oo2rec instead of xtool -mzstd and xtool -mkraken or anything.
when i was testing on a 500 mb sample file from no mans sky (zstd) and silent hill f (kraken+mermaid) i saw xtool decompressed more data than zstdrec or oo2rec and is much faster.

[KaktoR]

There are some cases where oo2rec is better then xtool but takes a bit longer.

[wrathma]

is there any way to unpack two freearc archives in parallel using a installer. im using IsArcEx with this setup script.
lets say i have 4 archive and. the first one is the big one (10gb) which takes a lot of time to unpack and cpu has a little room to unpack other archives. archive 2-4 is light on cpu takes less than 2 mins to extract. so while archive 1 is unpacking i want to unpack archive 2-4 one by one in parallel with it. my current unpack implementation is here (i have very little knowledge on pascal it was mostly copied from IsArcEx example).

if ISArcDiskAddingSuccess and ISArcExInitEx(MainForm.Handle, 1, @ProgressCallback) then
    begin
      repeat
        ISArcExReduceCalcAccuracy(1);
        ISArcExChangeLanguage('English');
        for i := 1 to ISArcExDiskCount do
        begin
          ISArcExError := not ISArcExExtract(i, ExpandConstant('{tmp}\Arc.ini'), ExpandConstant('{app}'));
          if ISArcExError then break;
        end;
      until true;
      
      ISArcExStop;
    end

in my case the bigger files always go first, so ISArcExDiscCount 1 is always the big file. i want to keep it running on one thread and on another thread i want to run extraction of archive 2-4.

[SergeyVeter]

Hi friends, please tell me how to compress the game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream on DS as much as possible?

[Dunnowho69]

Does bcm work on webm videos ?

[KaktoR]

I don't think so. Why not just test it?

Make a dataset with webm videos.

Try srep+bcm and srep+lzma

I think bcm is only suitable for Criwave USM videos if you don't want to recode anything.

[Dunnowho69]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

I don't think so. Why not just test it?

Make a dataset with webm videos.

Try srep+bcm and srep+lzma

I think bcm is only suitable for Criwave USM videos if you don't want to recode anything.

Yeah didn't work