XTool - Successor of ZTool

[kassane]

Originally Posted by Gupta

i think pascal compiler's abi is compatible with maybe gcc(if gcc not, i think its borland(embarcadero) c++ itself which sucks at optimizations) so they used compiled objects and directly links with the pascal code see https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/...al/zlibpas.pas
Another trickery can be, represents your dll as hexadecmial literals in your code and using some library like, to directly load from memory, quickbms uses it

For what I have tested the borland compiler is based on clang(msvc edition), as far as minGW posix is not compatible, I just do not know if it is possible with minGW win32. Since you use msys2 then it's posix!

[Gupta]

2011 clang which has shitty windows support and they somehow glued it with shitty code, change its core abi to make it work , it's just not right, it can't even compile c++11 correctly even their vector and share_ptr has bugs that why i was using my own implementation in designer and these compiler bugs made me left designers

[alfredd31]

error with decompression too. Only 1 file, 1.3Gb. Included xtool+liblz4.dll. The installer is stuck at the end, and the file is different: 1,405,353,984 byte vs (1,405,386,216 bytes for the original.

[alfredd31]

I'm using this...
unpackcmd = xtool.exe drecomp:t4 - - <stdin> <stdout>
Since others have similar problems, there is probably sth wrong with xtool.

[alfredd31]

except that I can obtain a better size than doofoo: 22.5Gb. You can select some bik files, even if some are giving an error.

[ZakirAhmad]

Originally Posted by alfredd31

except that I can obtain a better size than doofoo: 22.5Gb. You can select some bik files, even if some are giving an error.

what is ur packing command?

[alfredd31]

packcmd = xtool.exe erecomp:t4,lz4 - - <stdin> <stdout>

[ZakirAhmad]

Originally Posted by alfredd31

packcmd = xtool.exe erecomp:t4,lz4 - - <stdin> <stdout>

Sometimes srep also gives crc error during decompression. Try srep 3.92 instead of 3.93.

the file which is giving u crc error. try only xtool on it and decompress it(see what u get)

[MM32]

A script that works with the existing command
I apologize for my bad language in English

[alfredd31]

I was using cls-srep (it's srep 3.93a) and xtool 0.9. This srep was working with ztool.
For decompression I'm using this, not the one above...: unpackcmd = xtool.exe drecomp:t4 - - <stdin> <stdout>

@Ahmad: the installer is not even giving a crc error. It's just stuck. I have the same problem with the whole folder compressed. srep64 and xtool are still in the working processes.
Maybe I'm going to try with smaller files. In both cases it's stuck with the biggest file (imagefile92.pak).

Tested with a smaller file (25mb)...decompression worked.


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[alfredd31]

Never mind, I was planning to delete codaw anyway. I prefer keeping smaller games. And in this one, it seems no files can be deleted.

[ZakirAhmad]

When u r debugging some bug u r supposed to check individual files. BTW, the cls srep u r using doesnt only work for srep 3.93. it works with all sreps. The reason i told u this is becase i have experianced this with afr by edison. at last i found it was the problem with srep 3.93a when i replaced it with 3.92b. From that moment onwards i never god any problem.

[alfredd31]

Well, I'll check that.
Note that I tested xtool with farcry 4 too. And it seems files are not expanded as much as they could be. 24Gb=>30Gb. As a result there is a poor compression. I used a tool made by a certain edison007, and the compression was better, but the script used to decompress all that was a bit more complex. The game is still available on nomaher.com of course.
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[LuzhinE]

alfredd31 use srep 3.93

[KaktoR]

oodle for ACO

DataPC.forge (273.088.512 Bytes)

with srep64:m3f+lzma2

xtool(:c32m,t4:oodle)
260mb => 548mb => 195mb (205.152.256 Bytes)
Compression time: 192secs
Decompression time: 62secs

AFR(:a2) with in/out patch 
260mb => 548mb => 195mb (204.939.264 Bytes)
Compression time: 144secs
Decompression time: 118secs

For decompression used all threads

Only precompress:

xtool
Precompress time: 63secs
Decompress time: 55secs

AFR
Precompress time: 18secs
Decompress time: 105secs

So xtool is at least two times faster than AFR in decompression, but ~3.5 times slower in precompression