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

[Masquerade]

@HunterEmrah

I tested with this bat file after unpacking the pak file and it appears that the decimal values are all 1 too large.

E.g.

7464214027 7575275053

Should be

7464214027 7575275052

This matches with the start and end of the file in question (1.mov).

The values in the bat are one too large meaning that when you 00 fill the main pak in the specified locations, you will accidentally fill an extra offset for each file, meaning that 11 times a value will be made 00 when it shouldn't.

So if 1.mov ends with: 00 9E 00 4D 00 00 00 3F

And the file pattern goes: 00 9E 00 4D 00 00 00 3F F6

If you use the bat file provided for your values, that F6 value at the end will be filled as 00, leading to a corrupt file.

You don't even need to patch the videos and audio out, you can compress it to about 13.6GB with xtool+srep+lolz anyway.

[pratikpatel8982]

best compression method for DBC 14?? anyone??

[HunterEmrah]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

If you use the bat file provided for your values, that F6 value at the end will be filled as 00, leading to a corrupt file.

thank you for the explanation. also pzlib+srep+lolz gives crc error at %97 when installing.

Originally Posted by Masquerade

You don't even need to patch the videos and audio out, you can compress it to about 13.6GB with xtool+srep+lolz anyway.

I don't think so, I have tried to compress with this method but the output size is about 15 GB. Can you share the compression method in more detail, please?

[Balaji007]

Originally Posted by HunterEmrah

thank you for the explanation. also pzlib+srep+lolz gives crc error at %97 when installing.

I don't think so, I have tried to compress with this method but the output size is about 15 GB. Can you share the compression method in more detail, please?

Will you use the xzlib? Also what is your lolz command line?