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

[KaktoR]

Horizon Zero Dawn
Database test

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:kraken data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 18,039,994 => 30,942,108 bytes. Ratio 171.52%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 3.90 sec = 0%. Speed 4.63 mB/s
All OK

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:horizonzd data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 18,039,994 => 31,041,137 bytes. Ratio 172.07%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 1.68 sec = 1%. Speed 10.74 mB/s
All OK

*Database was created from latest game version

Usage:

Place xtl and oodle library next to xtool.exe

Use -mxtool:horizonzd

xtl file can be removed for decoding

[Masquerade]

Beyond A Steel Sky [v1.5.29158]

• *.PAK
  

  xzstd+srep+lolz

• *.MP4, *.WOS
  

  srep+zstd

• Everything else
  

  srep+razor

15.2GB ---> 10.1GB

Game version v1.5.29158 requires libzstd v1.4.8 for precompression. Use -mzstd in XTool packcmd. Thanks to Razor12911 for help in finding correct version of libzstd.

WOS archives contain Opus audio so cannot be compressed with Oggre.