XTool 2020 (Main Project)

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by ozolt

Razor12911, can you please add , (or some other sign) as alternate option to specify combining codecs? I'm actually trying to use arc.exe by specifying codecs from command line rather than modifying arc.ini, so I'm trying to use packcmd in arc.ini like this:
...
[External compressor:xtool]
header = 0
packcmd = xtool precomp -m{option} -c32mb -t100p-1 - - <stdin> <stdout>
..so I can use, for example, arc.exe a -mxtool:zlib+reflate ...
But since you choose to use + sign to combine codecs this will not work....or if somebody have another idea how to specify different codecs that requires + sign from command line and not by editing arc.ini everytime, I would much appreciate advice...

Thanks in advance,
regards

I'll add "+" as a resource string and if you want to change it as a user, you'd have to do it yourself. in the next update, that is

Update available

Changes

- added database search
- updated zlib scanner
- fixed reflate bug
- fixed 2GB memory limit

Notes
Database search is a feature similar to configuration support, a demonstration on Far Cry 5 and Watch Dogs Legion will be posted to show how it works.

Updated zlib scanner to eliminate some pesky false positives that cause reflate bugs, verification of reflate removed and should work faster now.

2010_R2 update broke reflate, not sure if you noticed but it's now fixed.

Report made by Kaktor on some file that gave outrageous ratios.
https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=559
Turns out the issue was caused by this
https://community.idera.com/develope...ream-2gb-limit

So I created a custom TMemoryStream that can handle more than 2GB data in x64

Compressed 1 file, 26,336,816 => 3,013,659,460 bytes. Ratio 11442.76%
Compression time: cpu 0.19 sec/real 11.60 sec = 2%. Speed 2.27 mB/s

Tested 1 file, 3,013,659,460 => 26,336,816 bytes. Ratio 11442.76%
Testing time: cpu 0.09 sec/real 3.05 sec = 3%. Speed 8.62 mB/s

[ozolt]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

I'll add "+" as a resource string and if you want to change it as a user, you'd have to do it yourself. in the next update, that is

Thank you very much If I can make a small comment, isn't resource string editing "overkill"? I mean, simple "-mzlib,reflate" syntax is all that is needed...(currently, only possible is, for example, -mzlib+reflate)

Anyway, thanks again,
regards

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by Gupta

> Turns out the issue was caused by this
https://community.idera.com/develope...ream-2gb-limit

because of these obscure bugs, I didn't continue with Delphi, especially ide is shit compared with other. You're still holding grounds nice work

Well I mostly evade the bugs by just sticking to WinAPI functions and a few times by using System functions but then with these I usually have to write custom code that do the same thing just that the one Delphi has is crap.

Originally Posted by ozolt

Thank you very much If I can make a small comment, isn't resource string editing "overkill"? I mean, simple "-mzlib,reflate" syntax is all that is needed...(currently, only possible is, for example, -mzlib+reflate)

Anyway, thanks again,
regards

the problem is commas are used for something else

example -mzlib:l98,w15+kraken:l9:t128...

if we replace + with , then syntax will look like this -mzlib:l98,w15,kraken:l9,t128..
zlib will start considering everything as one of its parameters.

Edit:

This is what you need to change via Resource Hacker in xtool.exe

[ozolt]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

if we replace + with , then syntax will look like this -mzlib:l98,w15,kraken:l9,t128..
zlib will start considering everything as one of its parameters.

I understand now and I agree comma is not a good choice, but how about & or # sign?...I never asked for , specifically, it does not matter as long as it is not +

Anyway, it is just a suggestion, ResourceHacker editing is not a problem, changed to & and it is working great (it's even more logical to me with & sign) ...
Thank you very much for your work,regards

[Masquerade]

Greetings Razor

Does the Dunia codec support for Far Cry Primal?

I haven't seen any mention of it here or on the DELZOREC thread on krinkels.org.

I tried using DELZOREC on the HD Texture file, but it certainly didn't work (3GB file somehow unpacked to 1GB).

If anything needs testing, I can upload some small samples. If there's a way you could show me to see what kind of compression is already on the files, that would also be appreciated.

[dixen]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Greetings Razor

Does the Dunia codec support for Far Cry Primal?

I haven't seen any mention of it here or on the DELZOREC thread on krinkels.org.

I tried using DELZOREC on the HD Texture file, but it certainly didn't work (3GB file somehow unpacked to 1GB).

If anything needs testing, I can upload some small samples. If there's a way you could show me to see what kind of compression is already on the files, that would also be appreciated.

Just Srep+LOLZ

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by dixen

Just Srep+LOLZ

Yes, but being properly precompressed wil get an even smaller packed version, which is what I'm going for here.

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Greetings Razor

Does the Dunia codec support for Far Cry Primal?

I haven't seen any mention of it here or on the DELZOREC thread on krinkels.org.

I tried using DELZOREC on the HD Texture file, but it certainly didn't work (3GB file somehow unpacked to 1GB).

If anything needs testing, I can upload some small samples. If there's a way you could show me to see what kind of compression is already on the files, that would also be appreciated.

I had totally forgotten about Primal, I'm only guessing when I say that I think it uses the same stuff that Watch Dogs 2 and Legion uses, so I think after I'm done with these, I'll check it out.

Update available

Changes

- fixed search/config support bug (thanks dixen)