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

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Originally Posted by Razor12911

for the streams in multi pak files, you have to make sure that freearc captures these files in sequence

it doesn't seems to work
FreeArc is correctly sorted files
Textures.pak
Textures_1.pak
Textures_2.pak
Textures_3.pak

solid .arc, bg3.xtl made of separated pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,251,958 bytes. Ratio 121.76%

per file (not solid) .arc, bg3.xtl made of separated pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,252,036 bytes. Ratio 121.76%

           Pos            Size      Compressed   Files
------------------------------------------------------
            31   4,293,937,007   7,285,063,990       1
 7,285,064,021   4,293,777,600   4,293,780,186       1
11,578,844,207   4,294,919,680   4,294,922,266       1
15,873,766,473     860,484,928     860,485,594       1

solid .arc, bg3.xtl made of joined pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,251,958 bytes. Ratio 121.76%

per file (not solid) .arc, bg3.xtl made of joined pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 13,743,127,639 bytes. Ratio 100.00%

so as you can see only first file (Textures.pak) is decompressed
and it's doesn't matter if you join all Textures*.pak to one file and made bg3.xtl from it