Tutorial using CI 8.0.0

[BAMsE]

Born_inSANE you probably messed up with archives. Make some small archive for testing and try to do it correct way.
Remember 1: compress srep file directly to cab not arc (and changing its extension to cab)
Remember 2: cab containing game files (also srep) is freearc archive, cab containing setup files (backgrounds, music) is winrar/7-zip/winzip archive (zip compressed with deflate algorithm and renamed to cab)

[Born_inSANE]

Here is the link for .iss and .ini files I used.
Link:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4a26a3ddd7sz6ht.
Please check it.

Now I have got the difference,but can you help me out in compressing srep directly to cab.Because I got error while directly compressing srep to cab.

[BAMsE]

Damn Born_inSANE! Sorry man, but you're not nØØb, you're NØØB.

First. Use built-in attachement systen instead of mediafire.

Second. In your setup.ini

FreeArcFile1={src}\Data1.cab;C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:1

should be

FreeArcFile1={src}\Data1.cab;DestDir:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:1

What the hell for you changed DestDir to C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft? DestDir is a variable and {app} is its value! Moreover, {app} means the path defined during installation.
So if someone want to install your Far Cry 2 to E:\Any_folder\Another_folder and type it during installation, then {app} means E:\Any_folder\Another_folder and Data1.cab will be extracted to E:\Any_folder\Another_folder
If Data1.cab should be extracted to any subfolder of installation path, i.e. Movies, then

FreeArcFile1={src}\Data1.cab;DestDir:{app}\Movies;Disk:1;PrecSrep:1

will extract content of Data1.cab to E:\Any_folder\Another_folder\Movies

Third.

Originally Posted by Born_inSANE

I got error while directly compressing srep to cab.

<facepalm>

Here is solution for your... ekhem... error
Untitled - 1.jpg

I give up. Over and out.

[Born_inSANE]

Sorry for all the trouble BAMsE.

[REV0]

Is anyone have stable version of precomp ?

They got stuck after 48 percent..

[mikey26]

Hi revo this is the version i am using and its working perfect so far for me i included the version of srep also hope this helps u out.

[REV0]

Thanks for upload, however it's also stucked on 45 percent and 13..

We're just dragging data.arc file over precomp.exe right ?

No additional steps

[mikey26]

yeah i made a bat file for both srep and precomp thx to Bamse for the help on that.i just used that version of precomp and srep that i uploaded on mafia 2 to get it down to single dvd5 worked like a dream.the bat files are for max compression.drag the data.arc on the precomp.bat should work perfectly.

[REV0]

Just dragged 5.5GB of arc to PCF then SREP, in the end i have 49MB..

Can it compress that much or it's an error

[mikey26]

wat u trying to precomp anf srep i will give it a go and see what happens if i have the game that is.but that does not sound right.

[REV0]

I tried to compress Inversion. It was 4.40GB aprox, made arc from it, then pcf then srep

[mikey26]

okay let me have a go at it.will report back.and by the way ur inversion CI the main exe in in the bin folder so u need to edit "MyExecutablePath=bin"

[mikey26]

hi revo.i remeber what cause that to crash its certain files in the structure that cause precomp to stop responding.Bamse did fill me in on this.if u look in the precomp bat file there -v aka verbose mode and pause when this crashes instead of the app closing down it will pause and at that point in cmd windows u will see where it crashed.
it should read some like this " found position at #########(whole bunch of numbers)

make a note of those numbers and add it to the precomp.bat
eg: precomp042 -intense -v -c- -i#######(the numbers u made a note off) %1
pause


if it crashes again u have to add those numbers also into the bat f file just like i mentioned above bit painfull but thats the way around it.

[KaktoR]

Hi

I have a little problem with my setup.

Everytime when the install sequence is finished (or Data3.pcf is unpacked, im not sure), i got this error

[ExtractSettings]
FreeArcFile1={src}\Data1.cab;DestDir:{app};Disk:1
FreeArcFile2={src}\Data2.cab;DestDir:{app}\Data;Di sk:1
FreeArcFile3={src}\Data3.cab;DestDir:{app}\Data;Di sk:1;PrecSrep:1

For Data3.cab i made the following steps

-4 Files archived in Data3.arc with no compression (just save with freearc)
-Used precomp 038 to pre-compress Data3.arc to Data3.pcf
-Then srep to compress the pcf file to srep file
-After this i used freearc to compress the srep file (-mx -ld800m)

I have also used the newest versions of precomp/srep but the same problem.

Any solutions ?

[pakrat2k2]

in the setup.ini you need to specify which version of precomp you used.

[InstallOptions]
ApplicationName=Gmename
Publisher=publisher name
MyExecutableName=game.exe
MyExecutablePath=
SaveGameFolder=
GameSize=9646
Lang=de,en,es,fr,it,pl,pr,ru
LangUI=0
PrecompVer=038