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

[shazzla]

No. I mean compression speed. In my experiences LOLZ pack many same bytes much faster than different bytes.

[Titeuf]

Good morning all,
For the drug dealer simulator game, what compression method can you advise me, please?
Thank you in advance,
cordially

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by Titeuf

Good morning all,
For the drug dealer simulator game, what compression method can you advise me, please?
Thank you in advance,
cordially

It's built in unreal engine, so for the Pak file use xtool with zlib codec+srep+lolz then for everything else use srep+lolz.

So:

*.pak =

xtool:e:precomp:zlib+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba4096

Everything else:

srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba4096

Enjoy the conversion!

[Masquerade]

Total unpacked size: 814mb

Compression as follows:

srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba4096

Total packed size using above methods: 65mb

[BobRogers21]

Hello there, I am currently looking to compress the game "Astroneer". I just wish to see how small I can compress the game.

It is an Unreal Engine game, so I used Masquerade's guidance from the last page for Drug Dealer Simulator however I am wondering if there's any better compression method for mp4 video files? It seems that srep+lolz do not compress these files very well.

This forum has helped me a lot since my first post. Thank you in advance.

[devil777]

It's better to Let alone those.... mp4 file.... just put em with whatever files your compressing with srep+lolz

Also you can reduce them in size by degrading their quality.... Like degrading to 720p from 1080p or higher .And you don't want that right?...

till now I have found no other tool to integrate with mp4 files without degrading their quality

[ShiyaVivala]

Originally Posted by BobRogers21

Hello there, I am currently looking to compress the game "Astroneer". I just wish to see how small I can compress the game.

It is an Unreal Engine game, so I used Masquerade's guidance from the last page for Drug Dealer Simulator however I am wondering if there's any better compression method for mp4 video files? It seems that srep+lolz do not compress these files very well.

This forum has helped me a lot since my first post. Thank you in advance.

You can use "uelr" to tfc files for precompressing.

arc.ini file:

[External compressor:uelr]
header     = 0
default    = -uv
packcmd    = "uelr_x86" {option} $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
unpackcmd  = "uelr_x86" r <stdin> <stdout>

Then srep+lolz.

For mp4 files you can create a batch script and re-encode them with FFmpeg.
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg