Helping thread :)

[romulus_ut3]

How about a thread dedicated to "secrets of the trade" where people will share their methods to achieve the best possible compression/de-compression methods for specific titles that can be understood even by a dummy? I know Razor12911 shared his methods for GTA V and Mad Max IIRC. Lets start with "The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Game Of The Year Edition" perhaps? I'm trying to compress this title into archives that'll fit into DVD5. I don't really require a fancy installer or anything, just a simple executable that'll let me extract the game's archives where I want (I believe Razor12911 has an archiver like this which I've used with great success in the past) I know that finding the best compression method for a certain set of files requires trial and error but we're all here to learn, right?

[Vapor028]

Hello everyone.
I'm new to this Forum and have one or two Questions.

Is it possible to use xz compressed files with IC 3.0? if yes how? (btw thx razor for this awesome program)

next one is how to use 4x4:lzma... i have a bat that runs but its no difference to lzma

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by romulus_ut3

How about a thread dedicated to "secrets of the trade" where people will share their methods to achieve the best possible compression/de-compression methods for specific titles that can be understood even by a dummy? I know Razor12911 shared his methods for GTA V and Mad Max IIRC. Lets start with "The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Game Of The Year Edition" perhaps? I'm trying to compress this title into archives that'll fit into DVD5. I don't really require a fancy installer or anything, just a simple executable that'll let me extract the game's archives where I want (I believe Razor12911 has an archiver like this which I've used with great success in the past) I know that finding the best compression method for a certain set of files requires trial and error but we're all here to learn, right?

Get a deflate precompressor, you can use this one.
http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=98317
srep then lzma, I think that's the method that needs to be used to get an output of something like 25-30GB.

Originally Posted by Vapor028

Hello everyone.
I'm new to this Forum and have one or two Questions.

Is it possible to use xz compressed files with IC 3.0? if yes how? (btw thx razor for this awesome program)

next one is how to use 4x4:lzma... i have a bat that runs but its no difference to lzma

-Is it possible to use xz compressed files with IC 3.0? if yes how? (btw thx razor for this awesome program)
Unfortunately no.

-next one is how to use 4x4:lzma... i have a bat that runs but its no difference to lzma
it sometimes all depends on what you're compressing. 4x4 allows a compressor to run in parallel mode, meaning more speed at a cost of ratio. 4x4 splits data into blocks then runs a chosen compressor, this block splitting loses you ratio, but like I said it all depends on what you're compressing, if its something that can be compressed properly by lzma and is long, you'll see ratio difference.

[Vapor028]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

-Is it possible to use xz compressed files with IC 3.0? if yes how? (btw thx razor for this awesome program)
Unfortunately no.

-next one is how to use 4x4:lzma... i have a bat that runs but its no difference to lzma
it sometimes all depends on what you're compressing. 4x4 allows a compressor to run in parallel mode, meaning more speed at a cost of ratio. 4x4 splits data into blocks then runs a chosen compressor, this block splitting loses you ratio, but like I said it all depends on what you're compressing, if its something that can be compressed properly by lzma and is long, you'll see ratio difference.

Thx for the fast answer.
For the XZ files... is there an IC like program to use?
and for the 4x4 problem i wrote a little wrong... with no difference i mean in terms of speed. its like 4x4 isnt there at all.... it will be subjetive but i think its even slower then lzma alone. maybe something wrong in the bat?

-msrep64+delta+4x4:lzma:a1:mfbt4:d1024m:fb128:mc100 0:lc8

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by Vapor028

Thx for the fast answer.
For the XZ files... is there an IC like program to use?
and for the 4x4 problem i wrote a little wrong... with no difference i mean in terms of speed. its like 4x4 isnt there at all.... it will be subjetive but i think its even slower then lzma alone. maybe something wrong in the bat?

On second thought, I think it's actually possible for IC update, I wonder why didn't I think of this before.
Making update for XZ support.

Originally Posted by PrinceGupta2000

specifying correct size probably more good while decompressing
srep will fail if u specify less and use more ram if u specify more, is little bit slow too

probably the reason why it is failing to restore things data correctly is becoz of the fact that i don't even store checksums while processing with srep(-hash-)

Actually, srep is suppose to fail during compression, removing -hash- will not fix this, to be on the safe side, don't pipe srep when compressing, only do that when decompressing.