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

[Masquerade]

I'm having a small issue when trying to compress Imperator Rome. The assets aren't packed, and most are .dds or .bmp images.

Because of this, I'm using the following method:

srep+lolz/$jpg=packjpg+srep/$mscimg=msc:dxt=1:ddsraw=1:bmp=1:bmf=9+srep+lolz/$binaries=srep+exe2+delta+lolz

With the following "masks" (Is that what you call them - in arc.groups):

$jpg
*.jpg

$mscimg
*.dds
*.bmp

$binaries
*.exe
*.dll

However I always seem to get this error when using MSC:



This happens every time I use MSC and BMF, I can always use TAK without error. I tried dropping lolz and using just msc+srep but still I can't manage to fix this. MSC does report that there was an error creating a .bmf file (temporary file) but I don't know if these two problems are linked. If anyone knows a little bit more about MSC, I'd greatly appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!