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

[KaktoR]

For my earlier test, about unpacking PCK files, encoding wem's and such, here is a comparisson for ACOrigins audio files. Excluding processing banks.


SFX + English audio

original
input 3.795.077.936 bytes

Compressed 41 files, 3,795,077,936 => 3,041,411,552 bytes. Ratio 80.14%
Compression time: cpu 2.05 sec/real 223.01 sec = 1%. Speed 17.02 mB/s
All OK

Time 4 minutes

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diffz+ww files + nulled wem blovks inside PCK files
input 7.422.151.129 bytes)

Compressed 148,175 files, 7,422,151,129 => 2,979,433,554 bytes. Ratio 40.14%
Compression time: cpu 23.94 sec/real 763.29 sec = 3%. Speed 9.72 mB/s
All OK

Time 1 hour 20 minutes

~25%-33% +time per language