Cost vs return - aka worthiness debate

[Razor12911]

Project CARS 2 is a bad example because the game is encrypted, what do you think all compression methods will do to high entropy data? Absolutely nothing, which is why there isn't much difference between weak and strong compression method but all in all you do have a point.

Edit:
Best thing you can run comparison is on data that's uncompressed because also Ghost Recon Wildlands, from what I can read, you compressed already compressed data, try precompressing game first then run test once more.

[felice2011]

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[Chayan Manna]

Originally Posted by felice2011

For those who want something magical there is always this http://www.fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=99080, for sure they will be satisfied.

Hehe, It's really a magical tool

[elit]

Originally Posted by ChronoCross

Finally the difference between m5 or mx on my PC results vary from 500mb to 800mb in games eg: 8gb> m5 = compressed in 2500mb ---- and ---- mx = compressed in 1800mb I have a big difference

Thanks a lot, but was that with srep combined?

Originally Posted by Razor12911

Project CARS 2 is a bad example because the game is encrypted... Best thing you can run comparison is on data that's uncompressed...

Yes that is good advice, but remember original size was over 40+gb so even without that you can still compress it to almost half size - without decrypting. In that regards shouldnt -mx vs -m5 still show a visible difference? Its still a lot of gigs that were compressed after all.

Originally Posted by Chayan Manna

Hehe, It's really a magical tool

Yeah, he have me for stupid