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

[Masquerade]

Peter72
A nice place to start is, if you like the steps order:

1. take a look at freearc's command line and see what all your various switches do. Using a custom temp folder is hugely useful if your OS is on an SSD (-w switch). -m switch is for the compression method.

2. Look into using arc.ini to add external compressors. Start with something like XTool or srep. There's plenty of premade compressors in this forum which already have packcmds in the arc.ini, and you can use these to learn the correct structure.

3. Learn about using multiple compressors chained together using the + sign in -m switch, e.g. -msrep+lolz

4. Learn to use multiple methods on 1 archive by using arc.groups to make a mask ( I won't type all this in 1 message, but I will happily explain masks you are interested - just this way I save you some time by looking at building blocks first)