Game File Scanner

[elit]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

No longer updating my programs, sorry. DS4LZ4 scans are false, almost all the time.

Thanks for the info. Yes I read about it and understand you position. Really sorry about what happened.

If I may ask you one last thing, I am using GFS together in conjunction with ztool. These 2 tools are just as cool and as important for repacks as srep/freearc by this Bulat Zigurat guy(or whatever was his name, but his tools are truly fantastic as well).

So I scan the game folder and then use ztool+srep/freearc. But I noticed that GFS have "dynamic streams" option which can find significantly more data. But is ztool also able to find and process dynamic streams? Because if not there is no point scanning for them and can save time. And if yes do I need specific option?(So far I found that I get almost always same size regardless of whether I use :pzlib:ultra or no option.)

Thank you again for these cool tools & best regards.

[Joe Forster/STA]

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[elit]

Ok so gave it some thoughts, and realized... "why not just use ztool for scan directly"?
Because, to me it seems GFS and ztool are about same speed and only difference is disk writing process on the ztool side. And ztool not only never hang, it give you 100% accurate result of what you would actually get during recompression!

So, this calls for cmd scripting, I only tried basic one if it work on single file. And it does:
calc.png

Just download dd for windows and pipe it to ztool. Make sure you /dev/null output.
Now, to make it more complex batch script for whole directory.... I guess tarring+pipelining would do(or 7z -m0 "store" + pipe), but for now you get an idea. It doesnt give you all the info, but then again what more you need than seeing size differences + this is 100% accurate to real result - no false positives and no missed streams.

[elit]

Alright so I made the script. Edit it for your game path, change ztool parameters as needed and run it. It need DD command for windows which you can get here:
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd.
Next you need 7zip, specifically 7z.exe and 7z.dll only, and ztool.

Place everything in one folder, including my attached script scan.zip and you are good to go. This script will show time at the beginning and the end of work(not shown on the pic as I added it later) and it will show original as well as pre-processed size at the end:
scrpt.png

This script is slower than GFS as I found, probably because inefficient serial piping, but still "ok" and reliable. Unlike GFS, feel free to set up as many threads on ztool as you can to speed it up without reliability cost.

I recommend this for plz4 and plzo since they hang, you can keep using pzlib on GFS(with dynamic streams on) to get more or less same accuracy while being quicker. But if you want to have exact size that you would get using ztool, you can still use this for pzlib as well.

PS: since this doesnt utilize disk fully(like GFS do), you could have say 3 different batch script versions in the folder, one for pzlib, plz4 and plzo respectively and run all 3 of them at once.