Compressing files

[robo989]

I dunno mate,

I do know that a few years back the groups used to encode the audio in mp3 for games. You would then run a program that would decompress all the tracks into PCM as what the game would use...

A game called Anno 1602 did this, it was about 50MB and then nearer 400mb when decompressed.

But I don't download that sort of thing anymore ...few years older and richer so....

I wouldn't bother trying any of that anyway since its a lossy format + its only for pcm audio, all stuff these days is already compressed...

You could try a program called "7-Zip" it attains the highest compression ratios (better than ACE\RAR\ZIP\etc). Its CPU heavy but you won't find a better program, + its free

[leo_s_smith]

im currently using kgb archiever which is the best.achieved almost 45% ratio in applications and even better in documents but i need more =(

[wildwing]

uharc

[DABhand]

I can see this thread being closed.

[Joe Forster/STA]

No idea what "really big files" means, I don't think I've ever seen files larger than 4 gigabytes (file size limit for usual 32-bit applications). However, RAR can process (uncompressed) files and (compressed) archives up to 8 exabytes (64-bit file sizes). That should be enough for a few decades or centuries!

[leo_s_smith]

i already tryied uharc but with no success any tutorials?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Unm, like reading the UHArc documentation first? uharc a <archive name> <file name pattern> [<options>] or similar syntax for adding files into an archive. Beware, it will take a lot of time; if I'm not mistaken, even much more than with RAR, which is also very slow at maximum compression mode!