XTool 2020 (Main Project)

[Razor12911]

@Everyone

The oodle precompressor in xtool is now more aggressive (means slower), I'll add aggression parameter to control how much time it should spend finding more and more streams however this only applies to kraken, mermaid, selkie and hydra. Leviathan is still problematic and you'll have to rely on plugins for data compressed using this codec.

Here are a few benchmarks that show what I am talking about:

0.99 GB (1,066,131,456 bytes) > 1.52 GB (1,638,079,260 bytes) [took 2 minutes, 9 seconds] (xtool 0.3.9)
0.99 GB (1,066,131,456 bytes) > 1.84 GB (1,977,644,853 bytes) [took 4 minutes, 56 seconds] (xtool 0.3.12)
0.99 GB (1,066,131,456 bytes) > 1.53 GB (1,649,308,007 bytes) [took 8 minutes, 52 seconds] (oo2reck)

As you can see, version 0.3.12 is now slower but it found more streams than 0.3.9 or the oodle precompressor side project.

This is a sample from Cyberpunk 2077 and since the game does have a plugin these are the results if you had use the plugin

0.99 GB (1,066,131,456 bytes) > 2.26 GB (2,432,780,012 bytes) [took 41 seconds] (plugin)

So what do these results mean? Well the newer version of xtool traded speed for more ratio in an attempt to beat the side project while still being faster. Also if a plugin for a specific game is created, it shows that the plugins will constantly be superior to the universal precompressor as it's not only faster but produces better results.

In conclusion, try to run tests with other games to see if the new xtool produces better results than oo2rec and if a plugin for a game exists then it's best to just use it.