Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition 2xDVD9 to 4xDVD5

[Smurf Stomper]

I'm playing around with this one at the moment. It looks like you can avoid having to fumble with the audio mixing during the .bik re-coding if you select the 'compress audio' option in the compression options. To keep it from sounding bad I put a value of '0' in the field, and leaving the other fields empty/unselected in the 'compress audio' section.

I just did a full compress of the gamedata (everything except the FMV folder) and it came out to 5,580 mb in the inno script with compression=lzma/ultra64, meaning if it's to go on one dvd9 the video would have to be compressed at 40% to packed into the install with no compression. At 40% compression the video looks pretty bad though, especially on my widescreen monitor.

Doing a video compression test, it looks like .bik videos compress at a 90% ratio on average.

So, this means that a video folder of 6.3 gb can be compressed using Rad Video Tools @ 50% down to 3.15gb, which is then compressed using inno's lzma/ultra64 down to 2.8 gb.

2.8gb videos + 5.6 gb gamedata = 8.4gb, fitting on a dvd9

This is all just preliminary testing I did in the last hour or so, so these are all calculations in progress. Just thought I'd share my findings with the community.

[Smurf Stomper]

Well fooey, I can't get it to quite fit on 1x dvd9, at least not without a) compressing the video down so heavily it looks degraded, and b) having an unacceptably long install.

So I've opted to simply spread it out over 2x dvd9's, leaving the .bik's in uncompressed. Using lzma/fast compression on all game files except the .biks (which I used nocompression on) will let them fit nicely on two dvd9's, with enough space leftover for the v1.1 crack and patch on dvd1.

If anyone's interersted in creating their own version of the original install with pretty graphics, etc, feel free to download the attached inno script pack. Credits of course go to perterf, who's script I modified a bit. (Peter, that's quite a lot you put in the [code] section, I'm impressed!)