DiskSpan GUI

[Cesar82]

The inclusion of the XTool Far Cry 6 plugin in the DiskSpan GUI has not been tested with the full game (English + Russian Languages).
Below are the results of the "full" game compression using DiskSpan GUI 2.0.0.3 using XTool (mfc6 plugin) + SREP + LZMA-MT.

20:35:29 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c32mb:mfc6+srep_new+4x4:b64mb:lzma:ultra:64m:bt4:fb273:lc8:mc1000000
22:40:58 - Overall input size: 79,15 GB
22:40:58 - Overall output size: 57,84 GB (Ratio 73.07%)
22:40:58 - Overall conversion time: 02:05:27
22:40:58 - Overall conversion discs: 14 DVD5

Installation time from "HDD" to "SSD (sata)" 8 minutes.

EDIT:
In my previous test the DiskSpan GUI wasn't including the lz4 library along with XTool, so it wasn't inflating the file.
But without inflating the file using SREP + LZMA-MT the final results were better than using the plugin.
Below are the results, this time using the plugin (now including the lz4 library).

04:30:01 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c32mb:mfc6+srep_new+4x4:b64mb:lzma:ultra:64m:bt4:fb273:lc8:mc1000000
07:04:20 - Overall input size: 79,15 GB
07:04:20 - Overall output size: 58,49 GB (Ratio 73.90%)
07:04:20 - Overall conversion time: 02:34:16
07:04:20 - Overall conversion discs: 14 DVD5

Installation time from "HDD" to "SSD (sata)" 11 minutes.

I did a precompression test in full game folder just using: xtool:c32mb:mfc6
I found the rate of inflation of the files as a whole so low.

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 Creating Data1a-01.bin file, Please Wait...
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Creating xtool plugin database...
common.dat: 18133 stream(s)
shadersobj.dat: 56888 stream(s)
fctber_disk.dat: 65873 stream(s)
fctber_disk_english.dat: 30 stream(s)
fctber_disk_hd.dat: 1036 stream(s)
fctber_disk_russian.dat: 30 stream(s)
fctber_dlc.dat: 30756 stream(s)
fctber_dlc_english.dat: 20 stream(s)
fctber_dlc_hd.dat: 632 stream(s)
fctber_dlc_russian.dat: 20 stream(s)
fctworlds.dat: 420766 stream(s)
fctworlds_english.dat: 2509 stream(s)
fctworlds_hd.dat: 3842 stream(s)
fctworlds_russian.dat: 2509 stream(s)
installpkg.dat: 230355 stream(s)
installpkg_english.dat: 76651 stream(s)
installpkg_hd.dat: 20110 stream(s)
installpkg_russian.dat: 76651 stream(s)
Database created successfully!
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FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: Conversion_Output\Data1a-01.bin
Compressed 83 files, 84,990,661,326 => 96,315,178,638 bytes. Ratio 113.32%
Compression time: cpu 55.97 sec/real 2115.09 sec = 3%. Speed 40.18 mB/s
All OK
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16:29:37 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c32mb:mfc6
17:05:00 - Overall input size: 79,15 GB
17:05:00 - Overall output size: 89,70 GB (Ratio 113.32%)
17:05:00 - Overall conversion time: 00:35:22
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Test with only common.dat/common.fat files:
17:16:18 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c32mb:mfc6
17:16:28 - Overall input size: 652,40 MB
17:16:28 - Overall output size: 1,20 GB (Ratio 188.18%)
17:16:28 - Overall conversion time: 00:00:08

NOTES:
Informing those users who test using the DiskSpan GUI, I believe it is possible to enable XTool dedup from the command line by adding "-dedup" (without quotes) as a parameter.
In simple tests I used xtool:c32mb:mfc6:-dedup, but I had worse results than just using xtool:c32mb:mfc6

EDIT:
Precompression test frostbite3 plugin in full game "FIFA 22 Ultimate Edition" using DiskSpan GUI.

 04:21:46 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c32mb:mfrostbite3,fifa22
 08:11:37 - Overall input size: 55,89 GB
 08:11:37 - Overall output size:103,61 GB (Ratio 185.38%)
 08:11:37 - Overall conversion time: 03:49:45
 08:11:37 - Overall conversion discs: 24 DVD5