Masked Compression (Ultimate compression in one go)

[panker1992]

razaman i didnt provide the above files, i have uploaded a blackbox Inno in page 1 for you to download

i cannot rewrite this sorry :/ no time

[Amsal]

I am stuck from 1 day in MSC, Panker1992 can you tell the solution for this? I am repacking SIMS 4 game!

[panker1992]

my first impression is that you have -f switch inside arc.ini

-f switch is no limit on input size
then msc tries to compress something very big and fails

try to disable the command

here is the correct one
[External compressor:msc]
header = 0
packcmd = MSC c -v -wav=1 -raw=1 -bmp=1 -ddsraw=1 -ddsdxt=1 -mp3=1 -bmf=9s -tak=9 -dxt=1 -lzma=hc4,lc8,lp2,pb2,fb273,mc1000 $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

if this doent solve the case then disable msc and leave everything else alone to do the job

i havent tested sims myself, and i am not the author of msc
Though i hope Shegorat will make a new msc sometime in the future

[Amsal]

Originally Posted by panker1992

my first impression is that you have -f switch inside arc.ini

-f switch is no limit on input size
then msc tries to compress something very big and fails

try to disable the command

here is the correct one
[External compressor:msc]
header = 0
packcmd = MSC c -v -wav=1 -raw=1 -bmp=1 -ddsraw=1 -ddsdxt=1 -mp3=1 -bmf=9s -tak=9 -dxt=1 -lzma=hc4,lc8,lp2,pb2,fb273,mc1000 $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

if this doent solve the case then disable msc and leave everything else alone to do the job

i havent tested sims myself, and i am not the author of msc
Though i hope Shegorat will make a new msc sometime in the future

It is still stuck there after doing this modification

[panker1992]

I am constantly asked about MSC problems, so i decided to give some kind of guide ( troubleshooting) !!!!


First things first i am not the author of msc , nor i can make it magically work
many of these programs arent easy to use on Windows 10 especially !!

I myself have tested windows 10 and i had many errors/warnings etc so i had to roll back to win 8.1 !!!

From here on I will not help/troubleshoot anything that i havent provided,
there are people here that ask for help with tools and methods that someone else has provided,

Here is a troubleshooting guide, Do those before you decide to post an error!!

1) disable all kinds of antivirus
2) disable the -f switch in msc if you have it on
3) windows defender reported to be delivering many errors on precomp, xz , and msc disable it for good and forget that it ever excisted
4)when a method gives an error, try a different approach

5) Do not by any means mix tools together, from different methods the only sure is that it will break
every author has different approach if you mix them all together it will never work

[truerepacks]

latest version of msc can't use bmf compression, even cls-msc.dll can't extract it
for more information visit http://krinkels.org/threads/msc-medi...mpressor.1587/

[panker1992]

truerepacks thanks for this info ....

unfortunately i dont speak russian nor i can read or understand them,

krinkels.org is a treasure forum in which i cannot participate

please if you have info regarding msc or any other tool that is used inform us like you did just now

[panker1992]

lolaya this sovles your problem ....


remove msc until we get an update on this , i hope in 2016 Shegorat will give us a new one

about your other problem i have found a nice alternative

use lzma:max:512m

this will give you about the same compress ratio as my method xz and lz77 but its gonna be so slow.

xz method uses 4 cores as i have provided making it super fast (lzma2)


post some feedback to let me know if lzma:max:512m worked !!!

[hans314]

Dear Panker,

are you going to update your Masked Data Compression tool with the new Precomp 0.44 version (decomp as well)? I am wondering if there is a better performance + ratio

[panker1992]

Hello Hans,

I will update it in time, i properly havent tested it myself yet.

Christian the author of precomp is working on Multithreaded bruteforce to make this process faster,

Now to make this clear, precomp 0.44 doesnt support stdin to stdout support
until a proper stdin and stdout are implemented, or a cls-precomp.dll is written
i will stay with 0.38 because its faster.

Up untill now i havent seen any improvements on precomp, my tests took the same time with 0.38 and 0.44.

if you want to update your tools you will have to
1) download my alpha precomp i posted it.
2) delete old precomp.exe and packjpg_dll.dll and copy-paste new
3) change the line in arc.ini from -slow -t-j ~~~> -intense0 -cn

Inno changes are
1) delete precomp.exe both packjpg_dll.dll and packjpg_dll1.dll and cls-precomp.dll
2) copy paste new precomp and leave arc.ini as it is it will work

NOTE:Due to the lack of proper stdin - stdout and cls-precomp.dll it will never show progress in Inno, and will take x2 time to unpack

Good luck

[Amsal]

And panker, give a new arc.ini for 4gb ram,6gb ram, 8gb ram, because you added update 1, which will change the arc.ini, so upload the arc.ini for 4gb ram, 6gb ram, 8gb ram AGAIN!

Do it fast as possible

[panker1992]

Originally Posted by Amsal

And panker, give a new arc.ini for 4gb ram,6gb ram, 8gb ram, because you added update 1, which will change the arc.ini, so upload the arc.ini for 4gb ram, 6gb ram, 8gb ram AGAIN!

Do it fast as possible

Just like lightning, i strike again :P .. . . . . . just kidding


New arc.ini for 8G of ram, 12G and 16G

Best optimizations for those ram

i decided to drop 4G ram support because it doesnt worth it,
i dont think that anyone has 4G of ram !!!

you will not find a 12G.7z because i have 12G of ram so it comes optimized for it.

enjoy

[Amsal]

Originally Posted by panker1992

Just like lightning, i strike again :P .. . . . . . just kidding


New arc.ini for 8G of ram, 12G and 16G

Best optimizations for those ram

i decided to drop 4G ram support because it doesnt worth it,
i dont think that anyone has 4G of ram !!!

you will not find a 12G.7z because i have 12G of ram so it comes optimized for it.

enjoy

Bro, I has 4gb ram, and in other pc 6gb ram, so please please upload that!

[panker1992]

i will write you for 6G ram

your 4G pc will most likely crash

lzt(lzturbo) uses minimum 5G

it's up and running

6G ram added per requested

anything less than that will freeze, and probably crash your pc to death

[Amsal]

VirtualAlloc failed!

Please tell me a solution for it