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

[KaktoR]

Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Database test

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:mermaid data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 1,103,790,080 => 1,665,355,269 bytes. Ratio 150.88%
Compression time: cpu 0.97 sec/real 149.29 sec = 1%. Speed 7.39 mB/s
All OK

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E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:acvalhalla data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 1,103,790,080 => 1,978,050,088 bytes. Ratio 179.21%
Compression time: cpu 0.83 sec/real 67.59 sec = 1%. Speed 16.33 mB/s
All OK

*Database was created from game version 1.5.0 with all DLCs

Usage:

Place xtl and oodle library next to xtool.exe

Use -mxtool:acvalhalla

xtl file can be removed for decoding

Edit: Fixed database, sorry