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

[KaktoR]

Hitman 3 test using rpkg tool (because no plugin is available atm)

chunk0.rpkg (13.5GB)

 srep+lolz_fast
Overall input size: 14.03 GB
Overall output size: 12.10 GB (Ratio 86.29%)
Overall conversion time: 00:53:55
 
 
 srep+lolz_fast with rpkg tool
Overall input size: 15.50 GB
Overall output size: 11.41 GB (Ratio 73.61%)
Overall conversion time: 02:01:43

Input is bigger because chunk0.rpkg was extracted (lz4 variant is used). However output is smaller. But that time to process is insane and I recommend not to do this at all.

The time above was achived on a m2 ssd for a single test. Here again it is not recommended to do this kind of stuff on a ssd, even it is much faster.

Extracting all rpkg's on a HDD took barely 4 hours.
Next step is to make TAR files out of extracted files (this will take another bunch of hours), because somehow freearc seems to have problems with nearly 2 million extracted files.

*.WWEM
*.WWES

Rename them to *.WEM so you can use WemTool on them. After decoding rename them back to *.WWEM and *.WWES.
You can save approximately 10% of original size.


*.WWEV
They have "RIFF8-��WAVEfmt" but cannot do anything with them.
More info: https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p=501212&postcount=3495

This is just a info test out of curiosity and I wanted to share some infos here.