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

[K4miKaZe]

This game was an absolute pain, i was trying to get it on a single BD25 disc but without efford. I reduced it by 5 gb using reflate. Tried xtool,ztool,pzlib and even different zlib dlls (one of those worked for inflating it with xtool without any problems but crc error on installing). I will post my result i got after these 2 days but sure i will look closer to it in a week, im just tired of this game for now.

Title:           Dishonored 2
Version:         v1.77.5.0 (incl. all dlcs)

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 8GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    All foreign languages

Original Size:   53.6 GB
Compressed Size: 24.7 GB

Method:          reflate:l9:s210+srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on (see filelist)
                 binkpack on *.bk2 files
                 srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on rest of files
                
Compress Time:   14 - 15 hours
Install Time:    45 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Fileslist: On this files you can use the reflate method

/base/game1.resources
/base/game1_001.resources
/base/game1_002.resources
/base/game1_003.resources
/base/game1_004.resources
/base/game2_001.resources
/base/game2_002.resources
/base/game2_004.resources
/base/game3_001.resources
/base/game3_002.resources
/base/game3_003.resources
/base/game3_004.resources
/base/game4.resources
/base/game4_001.resources
/base/game4_002.resources
/base/game4_003.resources
/base/game4_004.resources
/base/shared_2_3.sharedrsc

This files inflates but get error on installing:

/base/game2.resources
/base/game2_003.resources
/base/game3.resources

If there is a possibility to make something with this file, the game can get
to the 20-21gb total size. I tried it but nothing worked.

As said, im too tired of this game to make more tests, maybe next week i will try some more things and come up with a better method but for now i will not see this game for some days hahaha.

[DiCaPrIo]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

This game was an absolute pain, i was trying to get it on a single BD25 disc but without efford. I reduced it by 5 gb using reflate. Tried xtool,ztool,pzlib and even different zlib dlls (one of those worked for inflating it with xtool without any problems but crc error on installing). I will post my result i got after these 2 days but sure i will look closer to it in a week, im just tired of this game for now.

Title:           Dishonored 2
Version:         v1.77.5.0 (incl. all dlcs)

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 8GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    All foreign languages

Original Size:   53.6 GB
Compressed Size: 24.7 GB

Method:          reflate:l9:s210+srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on (see filelist)
                 binkpack on *.bk2 files
                 srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 on rest of files
                
Compress Time:   14 - 15 hours
Install Time:    45 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Fileslist: On this files you can use the reflate method

/base/game1.resources
/base/game1_001.resources
/base/game1_002.resources
/base/game1_003.resources
/base/game1_004.resources
/base/game2_001.resources
/base/game2_002.resources
/base/game2_004.resources
/base/game3_001.resources
/base/game3_002.resources
/base/game3_003.resources
/base/game3_004.resources
/base/game4.resources
/base/game4_001.resources
/base/game4_002.resources
/base/game4_003.resources
/base/game4_004.resources
/base/shared_2_3.sharedrsc

This files inflates but get error on installing:

/base/game2.resources
/base/game2_003.resources
/base/game3.resources

If there is a possibility to make something with this file, the game can get
to the 20-21gb total size. I tried it but nothing worked.

As said, im too tired of this game to make more tests, maybe next week i will try some more things and come up with a better method but for now i will not see this game for some days hahaha.

why don't you use ztool or xtool

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by DiCaPrIo

why don't you use ztool or xtool

Have you read the post? It didnt work. Managed to compress it with xtool but crc problems on unpacking. Maybe finding correct .dll files would do the trick but tried with many different versions...

[DiCaPrIo]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

Have you read the post? It didnt work. Managed to compress it with xtool but crc problems on unpacking. Maybe finding correct .dll files would do the trick but tried with many different versions...

use ztool:max:c256m:t75p it should work but might take too much time as I tested long time ago

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by DiCaPrIo

use ztool:max:c256m:t75p it should work but might take too much time as I tested long time ago

Ok, i will try it later on the smallest file. Tried ztool yesterday too and yes, its slow but i waited. After trying to install i got crc problem. Lets see if it works with c256m.

Edit: And i thought that reflate was slow like a turtle, 20 minutes ago i started with a 500mb file, still on the first step. But hey, if it works, time doesnt matter (at least i hope it wouldnt take a week xDDD)

Edit 2: After 35 minutes its done, 571mb-->36mb with reflate 571--> 47mb. Tested it now without crc issues. I will try it now with one of the files that didnt worked with reflate but this looks good. Many many thanks DiCaPrIo !!! The chunksize value didnt even come to my mind while i was testing it. If this works maybe i can try out xtool with the newest zlibwapi.dll, this dll was ultra fast but got the same problem then ztool yesterday. At least its a good point to start.