[Dev]XTool

[Razor12911]

Here's an early working version of xtool. I'm still busy adding preflate, reflate and other things so currently only the zlib function works which means this will not work on Dishonored 2 or DOOM but it will work on most titles.

Drag and drop game files that are zlib compressed on the bat file

Things to test:

* Stability
* Can you cancel installation when xtool was used in setup
* If you have 16 threads or more, make xtool use 100% of your cpu to see if it can handle it
* if you have 32GB+ ram, set high chunk size, something like -c1gb and see if xtool was able to allocate the necessary memory
* If you have potato pc, don't worry I got a job for you check if there are no problems if you are using 1 thread both in encoding and decoding

Whatever you do, don't place preflate_dll.dll near the exe, not yet. else it will fail, the preflate code hasn't been added yet

Notes:

The file check must report
FC: no differences encountered
if the test went successfully, if it failed kindly upload the file it failed on.

This xtool uses slightly more memory than the 2019 version, I opted for stability than less memory usage

xtool now accepts maths expressions in command line, if you wanted it to use all cores minus 1, you can just write -t100p-1 or -t100-2, totally up to you

Next release/test focuses on:

+ preflate
+ reflate (reflate actually isn't replaced by preflate, it sometimes gives better output than preflate so I'll keep it just in case you are after best results)
+ depth setting

[Masquerade]

Hello Razor, here is my test (I did make a post before but I had to delete it since I used a reflate files by mistake):

My spec: Ryzen 7 2700 (8c/16t) + 16GB RAM.

Bat file editied for 128mb chunk size.

Here's is XTool using all 16 of my threads:



Testing on pak file from Astroneer:

Start size: 2.13GB

End Size: 3.75GB

No differences encountered

Not entirely sure how I'd go about testing it in a setup...

[doofoo24]

tested on just cause2 arc files...
default setting nothing change "ProcProfile64.exe xtool.exe precomp -mzlib -c16mb -t100p-1 %1 %1.out"
system ryzen 3900x with 32gb
*is there arc.ini setting ?