MTX - The Universal Accelerator

[Masquerade]

@Blackfire69

I've hbeen having issues with both MTX.exe and RazorX trying to compress a few files, leading to an FreeArc error at 99.1% in both tools (bad file descriptor error).

I use srep before running. Will this cause issues during decompression? I've never encountered that before. I'm currently testing that myself. Arc says decompression error in razorx/mtx though, and not srep

[BLACKFIRE69]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

@Blackfire69

I've hbeen having issues with both MTX.exe and RazorX trying to compress a few files, leading to an FreeArc error at 99.1% in both tools (bad file descriptor error).

I use srep before running. Will this cause issues during decompression? I've never encountered that before. I'm currently testing that myself. Arc says decompression error in razorx/mtx though, and not srep

ok, more info please.

how many threads did you use? (for the compression and the decompression)
did you run this test on the same cpu?


in general, MTX returns errors because the number of threads doesn't match.
I mean for example, MTX can't control this situation if you use 8 threads for compression and 16 threads for decompression. this's because the number of threads for decompression should always be less than or equal to the number of threads you used in compression.

[BLACKFIRE69]

how do I fix this? (MSVCP140.dll)

solution: Install VC++ 2015-2017-2019 package (both x86 and x64)

latest Visual C++ downloads

[Masquerade]

I'd argue this is a better solution
https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases

Anyways, I solved my issues, it appears the files being extracted were simply too small (1-2kb) and something just went wrong.

I played around a bit and managed to reach a correct extraction:

FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) extracting archive: MASQUERADE-Data_01.MSQ
Extracting 41 files, 5,071,054,255 bytes. Processed   2.6%
Extracted 41 files, 1,955,615,101 => 5,071,054,255 bytes. Ratio 38.56%
Extraction time: cpu 28.59 sec/real 158.83 sec = 18%. Speed 31.93 mB/s
All OK

[BLACKFIRE69]

MTX v5.0.0.2 New Update

What's new:

1. Fixed config file parsing bug. (Thanks to @Cesar82)
 
2. Added support of MTX.ini.
    -- When you use MTX.ini next to the EXE file, 
       the settings "--basePath", "--cfgfile" and "--tmpPath" are overridden. 
       This simply means that if you use MTX.ini, you no longer need the  "--basePath",
       "--cfgfile" and "--tmpPath" setting in the commandline.
    
    -- If you use both MTX.ini and the commandline settings, the MTX will ignore
       the commandline settings ("--basePath", "--cfgfile" and "--tmpPath").
 
3. Compatible with the previous version (v5.0.0.1).

MTX.ini

[MTX64]
MainPath=".\"
Config="$basePath$\arc.ini"
TmpPath="$basePath$\temp64"

Section name
	Filename>> MTX32.exe      then [MTX32]
	Filename>> MTX64.exe      then [MTX64]
	Filename>> MTX.exe        then [MTX]
	Filename>> FileName.exe   then [FileName]

MainPath
	MainPath="$exePath$"  or
	MainPath=".\..\..\"   or
	MainPath="C:\test"

Config
	Config="$basePath$\arc.ini"  or
	Config="$exePath$\arc.ini"   or
	Config=".\..\..\arc.ini"     or
	Config="C:\test\arc.ini"

TmpPath
	TmpPath="$basePath$\temp"  or
	TmpPath="$exePath$\temp"   or
	TmpPath=".\..\..\temp"     or
	TmpPath="C:\test\temp"

[luxuse]

can you repost a link for the new versions of MTX ?