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

[KaktoR]

Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition
Database test

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -moo2reck data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 4,404,209,185 => 9,066,844,033 bytes. Ratio 205.87%
Compression time: cpu 5.72 sec/real 1138.63 sec = 1%. Speed 3.87 mB/s
All OK


E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:kraken data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) updating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 4,404,209,185 => 8,974,413,342 bytes. Ratio 203.77%
Compression time: cpu 4.89 sec/real 421.68 sec = 1%. Speed 10.44 mB/s
All OK


E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:gta3r data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) updating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 4,404,209,185 => 9,160,117,615 bytes. Ratio 207.99%
Compression time: cpu 4.56 sec/real 400.89 sec = 1%. Speed 10.99 mB/s
All OK

*Database was created from game version 1.04
**Tested only GTA 3 Definitive Edition, but the two others should work aswell

Usage:

Place xtl and oodle library next to xtool.exe

Use -mxtool:gta3r/gtavcr/gtasar

xtl file can be removed for decoding