Current compressing techniques guidance

[Spexxos]

Originally Posted by 78372

May be xtool didn't work good on that, it's a beta tool after all.
Try pZlib v3 instead

what settings do you suggest for pzlib?


EDIT: pzlibv3, christmas edition, gives the same result as precomp v046 (pZLib3a.exe e -c128m -t75p). It is also noticeably faster. Is there any sense in checking out older versions of pzlib? I have seen older versions have more switches/options. Is that because the needed more manual input from the user to give the best result, and pzlib3 does that automatically or is there an other reason for that?


EDIT2: After Precomp/pzlib what defines the order in which you apply further tools like DELTA and Srep, msc etc? Which one comes first, and why? Or does the order not matter at all?