Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[dixen]

Serious Sam 3 BFE (MiltiLang)


Xtool (zLib codec)+msc+srep+lolz - 6 gb > 3.3 gb
Install time - 6 min on SSD

Decompression *.gro needed 14 gb Free Space

[ZakirAhmad]

Compressed Assassins Creed orgins from 52Gb to 31.1Gb using srep + lzma and bpk for bink files.

the repack is based on FGs 52Gb single language version.

it took 6hours to install on my pc thanks to hellish compression used by Ubisoft.

Now it takes on 1hour to install.

for 8gb gain i have to wait for 5 more hours thads is not a good tradeoff.

BTW she mentioned that on 16 thread CPU, it takes only 35minutes to install can someone please confirm.

[geekpower]

Guns Gore and Cannoli 2 v1.0.4 [2.66GB -> 1.16GB]
2,867,328,269 => 1,246,655,483 bytes. Ratio 43.48% using msc+srep+lzma2
~2 min install on HDD

Transports v1.7 [557MB -> 142MB]
584,293,810 => 145,535,871 bytes. Ratio 24.91% using msc+srep+lolz

Atom RPG v0.7.5 [3.06GB -> 1.28GB]
3,341,588,644 => 1,382,259,581 bytes. Ratio 41.37% using srep+lolz (with lzma2 i got only 45%)

Farmers Dynasty v0.98 [7.36GB -> 2.03GB]
7,904,873,746 => 2,182,473,071 bytes. Ratio 27.61% using msc(.wav)+dlz(.dds)+srep+lzma2 (lolz compressed worse as i have a low mc/tt setting for speed)
~7 min install on HDD