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

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by doofoo24

i am talking when you limit srep to 2gb
srep m2f more like 200% faster on normal hdd not ssd...

No idea, i always use SSD as you can see on all my posts. I posted HDD because it was a request made by an user of this forum so i really have no idea the impact m2f have on a HDD. The only thing i can tell you is that the difference between SSD and HDD should be around 25% for srep and the difference on SSD using 64bit or 32bit srep are something like 30% on speed (maybe because ssd is already fast enough). Thats on my case but you cant go exact with this things. CPU cores, ghz, etc... all matters. Even HDDs can have different speeds (rpm, if its a raid build or not,etc...).

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by doofoo24

you not getting the idea
if you have enough ram for decompression srep:m2f and m3f are the same speed, i am talking when you limit srep to 2gb (i need to simplefiy more haha)...
[Srep]
Memory=2048m
TempPath=app

tha one with m3f will create more temp file on hdd/ssd (mean more time to decompress), gta v with m3f need 11gb compare to m2f need 3.8gb, temp file alone for srep-zlib double

Hahaha, the funny thing is that i already answered to your question on my first reply "settings by default" and default settings are "50%-512m" in this case "it uses 2,5gb". Times are around 30 minutes with uncapped installer on SSD and it needs more then 11gb, 13,5gb on this version.

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by doofoo24

oh no how stupid of me

My english is not good at all too, so maybe my fault too, dont worry haha. But i got your point from the start, i know that its faster if you have the ram. Thats because i say to create two installers (thats what i make). But my test main installer is always the limited one and for games like hitman or gta i create later a "more ram" installer with x64 version. But its never 200% faster for me and thats maybe where the drive/disk speed seems to be important (due to the temp files).

Edit: The times are always with the 32bit version, i mean that it can go to the 30 minutes using the x64 version. (not all my pcs have 16gb of ram, and this one i just added two new sticks some days ago).

[K4miKaZe]

Title:           Portal
Version:         v1.0

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 16GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    Nothing

Original Size:   1.52 GB
Compressed Size: 532 MB

Method:          msc+srep:m3f "on audio files"
                 srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 "on rest of files"
                                                  
Compress Time:   13 minutes (759.82 sec)
Install Time:    1 minute

CRC Checked:     Yes

Title:           Portal 2
Version:         v1.5 +All DLC's

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 16GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    All foreign languages

Original Size:   13.5 GB
Ripped Size:     12.2 GB
Compressed Size: 4.92 GB

Method:          msc+srep:m3f "on audio files"
                 binkpack "on .bik files"
                 srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 "on rest of files"
                                                  
Compress Time:   2 hours 16 minutes (8170.37 sec)
Install Time:    3-4 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Note: 
The file "valve_portal2_fp.bik" cant be compressed with binkpack, you can
skip it or just use rad tools to recompress this file before using binkpack.