XTool - Successor of ZTool

[doofoo24]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

Cool, keep going. compare both precompressed and compressed size between ztool and xtool because if all is good, I no longer touch the codec but will move to the next.

ok it will take while to compress both game...

test xtool v3
battlefield hardline 36.8gb to 49gb to size 22.8 GB (24,436,696,587 bytes)
mirror edge catalyst 23gb to 29gb to 16.5 GB (17,814,184,692 bytes)

test ztool 0.19.8
battlefield hardline 36.8gb to 51.3gb with srep:m3f:a2+lolz:d64m size 22.7 GB (24,436,517,587 bytes)
mirror edge catalyst 23gb to 29.5gb with srep:m3f:a2+lolz:d64m size 16.5 GB (17,796,182,115 bytes)

*i used the same liblz4 from xtool v3 with ztool...
seems that the ratio with ztool better with about couple of mb...
decompression no crc error...

the arc.ini setting

[External compressor:xprecomp]
header = 0
packcmd = XTool e:precomp:c32mb,t100p:lz4 - - <stdin> <stdout>

[External compressor:plz4]
header = 0
packcmd = ztool e:plz4:t100p - <stdin> $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

[ZakirAhmad]

Tried it on a file from Mass effect andromida.

ztools pzstd expanded it to 174.85%
xtools expanded it to 177.14%
ztool with v parameter 177.27%(since this produces result without varification, hence can b used for comparison. jusk like we use DS4Zlib before precompression.)

extraction is also successifully

After treating the output with srep + lzma

ztool 20.38%
xtool 20.21%

is it possible to provide v parameter with xtool, it might come handy for comparison.

[darkwolves]

@Razor12911
i will repack need for speed payback with it the lz4 on ztool froze on a certain file i am hoping this does not if it does i will give you the sample

[darkwolves]

apon using the x86 version it had an error that
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
was missing
so i found it and put it in the same folder no problem since
file included below for anyone who has had the same problem