How do I combine UltraArc and CIUv2?

[Chrushev]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

The first. Xtool will (pre)compress all files.

Note that xtool is not a final compressor. It just unpack game archives for better compression afterwards (in very most cases), so you will see that xtool in some cases double the output size.

I don't have the game but if xtool does nothing, means output size (data.arc) is the same as input size (pack folder).

I think something else is wrong. It literally finishesin less than 1 second. So it doesnt try to do anything. and there is no output after attempt, meaning it crashed.

I dont really want to spend a lot of time trying to squeeze out as much compression out of a game as I can, I just need something sensible. From what I saw UltraArc did an excellent job. It was very fast (maybe 10 min for the game, and it accomplished compression close to what fitgirl got on that game). That works for me.

Can you help me with making the setup.exe work with unpacking the .arc files created via UltraArc?

Or I am fine with using xtool if there is some automated easy way to use it (aka, not going through game folders trying to figure files out). Just point at the folder and click GO is the type of solution I am looking for.