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

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

Side Note : A small question i have, if i first precompress my game and then apply final compressor on the archive that was precompressed VS if i use all Precompressor + Compressor + Final Compressor at the same time. Will the results differ?

What do you mean?

If you precompress into an archive, then compress the archive, your result will be near identical but then if you want to install it will be rough and take a long time since the installer has to go through 2x archive extractions.

Also, always use srep after precompression before main compressor (lzma, lolz).

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

What do you mean?

If you precompress into an archive, then compress the archive, your result will be near identical but then if you want to install it will be rough and take a long time since the installer has to go through 2x archive extractions.

Also, always use srep after precompression before main compressor (lzma, lolz).

Yeah, i had a rough time decompressing 2x archives but the reason i asked this is because FIFA 20 is such a pain to precompress, such as XTool would use no CPU and oo2reck takes alot of time to combine with srep+lolz.

I managed a script for the 2x decompressing but still there isn't a perfect method for this FIFA 20.

Another question : Is it normal that lolz would give good ratio at the start but as the compression proceeds the ratio is again somewhere near 90%?

Here is the script if a newbie like me wants it.

Delete.bat

del /q data.arc
del /q data1.arc
del /q data2.arc

Put it in your script at the end like this.

[Run]
Filename: "{app}\Delete.bat"; Parameters: "/x"

Pack your .bat into an archive and have the installer decompress it as the last archive.