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

[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.