Extreme Black Box compression - how ?

[_EZEKiEL_]

Originally Posted by hydefromt70s

Welcome my friends!

Currently working on a repack of Far Cry 4.
I noticed that the setup released his repack of this game, which is 12.4GB. My question is: how the hell is it possible?

The game normally takes about 25GB after removing unnecessary language (other than English). I spend almost a third day on this game and I was able to pack it to the size of about 18GB. Game files are not susceptible to PRECOMP, so I use compression SREP + lzma.

Can someone explain to me how they were able to get such a small size?

Look in "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp\" localize temporary files of setup to know their methode.
If you want to remove English, to keep only French example, you will have to rename like this: fcc_main_french.dat to fcc_main_english.dat after having everything rename, simply add the registry key corresponding for your language:
Root: HKC U; SubKey: Softw are \ Ubi soft \ FarCr y4 \ 420; ValueType: string; ValueName: Langu age; ValueData: fr-FR; Flags: uninsdeletevalue uninsdeletekeyifempty

Sorry for my bad English

[hydefromt70s]

Originally Posted by _EZEKiEL_

Look in "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp\" localize temporary files of BlackBox to know their methode.
If you want to remove English, to keep only French example, you will have to rename like this: fcc_main_french.dat to fcc_main_english.dat after having everything rename, simply add the registry key corresponding for your language:
Root: HKC U; SubKey: Softw are \ Ubi soft \ FarCr y4 \ 420; ValueType: string; ValueName: Langu age; ValueData: fr-FR; Flags: uninsdeletevalue uninsdeletekeyifempty

Sorry for my bad English

I removed already foregin languages and kept only english files. And know also about registry keys.

I Have installed parallel version RELOADED (I repack based on this version) and the BlackBox. I removed unnecessary files and they take exactly the same size as the version of BB, and yet repack BB is much better compressed.

During the installation of BB repack, can't see anything interesting in the temporary folder (see attachment file). By default, SREP PRECOMP and Unarc files.


So what does this mean? That their repack was compressed using PRECOMP and SREP? But I checked each file using PRECOMP and none were susceptible to its effects (.pcf file had the same size, hasn't increased).

I'm convinced that the devil is in the compression commands, but I don't know them

Any ideas? Anyone?

[_EZEKiEL_]

Originally Posted by hydefromt70s

I removed already foregin languages and kept only english files. And know also about registry keys.

I Have installed parallel version RELOADED (I repack based on this version) and the setup. I removed unnecessary files and they take exactly the same size as the version of BB, and yet repack BB is much better compressed.

During the installation of setup, can't see anything interesting in the temporary folder (see attachment file). By default, SREP PRECOMP and Unarc files.


So what does this mean? That their repack was compressed using PRECOMP and SREP? But I checked each file using PRECOMP and none were susceptible to its effects (.pcf file had the same size, hasn't increased).

I'm convinced that the devil is in the compression commands, but I don't know them

Any ideas? Anyone?

I do not have the setup version, but what I see, I can tell that it uses precomp 0.38 packjpg, after you have properly selected the files for precomp.

[Dante1995]

Black Box Repack is prohibited in this forum

[_EZEKiEL_]

Originally Posted by Dante1995

Black Box Repack is prohibited in this forum

Sorry...

[hydefromt70s]

Originally Posted by Dante1995

Black Box Repack is prohibited in this forum

Ok, let it be banned. Just trying to understand the compression method used in the repack and I don't see anything wrong with that ....

So let's focus on the problem ...

[GhostSystem]

BlackBox use RAD Studio XE7 for creating their new installer