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

KaktoR · #1 02-09-2023, 04:37

Should be enough

Danziel123 · #2 03-09-2023, 21:40

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Originally Posted by KaktoR

Should be enough

Why i get stuck at this?

Alredy tried with xtool:mreflate, xtool:mpreflate & xtool:mzlib still same. Maybe you know what cause it? Thank you

Fak Eid · #3 04-09-2023, 01:35

Because the codecs can't read the stream of the file. The files contains encoded lz4 that can be compressed only using a certain plugin 'mstarfield' (starfield.dll). Leave out the wwise sound files and compress using that algo.. wwise sound can only be compressed using srep+lzma (as of my knowledge right now)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danziel123

Why i get stuck at this?

Alredy tried with xtool:mreflate, xtool:mpreflate & xtool:mzlib still same. Maybe you know what cause it? Thank you

Danziel123 · #4 04-09-2023, 01:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

Because the codecs can't read the stream of the file. The files contains encoded lz4 that can be compressed only using a certain plugin 'mstarfield' (starfield.dll). Leave out the wwise sound files and compress using that algo.. wwise sound can only be compressed using srep+lzma (as of my knowledge right now)

Here is my DSG_Settings for starfiled, is this right or not?

Quote:

Data1.Name=Data1a-01.bin
Data1.InclText=*.ba2
Data1.ExclText=
Data1.Method1=xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mreflate:dd3+ LZMA-MT
Data2.Name=Data1b-01.bin
Data2.Method1=xtool:c256mb:mbk2:df20p+LZMA-MT
Data2.InclText=*.bk2
Data3.Name=Data1c-01.bin
Data3.Method1=xtool:dd3
Data3.ExclText=*.ba2|*.bk2

Masquerade · #5 04-09-2023, 02:13

Quite a lot of audio in Starfield is WWISE PCM - meaning you can use MSC on it.

Other type of WWISE audio is Vorbis, which you can read more about in WemTool topic.

Fak Eid · #6 04-09-2023, 07:48

xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mreflate+srep_new+lolz/lzma seems correct for all .ba2 files except WWise Sound files. Also as of now, DSG won't be able to extract the files. You need to do it with your installer only.

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Originally Posted by Danziel123

Here is my DSG_Settings for starfiled, is this right or not?

Danziel123 · #7 04-09-2023, 23:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mreflate+srep_new+lolz/lzma seems correct for all .ba2 files except WWise Sound files. Also as of now, DSG won't be able to extract the files. You need to do it with your installer only.

Thank you for suggestion, change it to xtool:dd now can compress till finish

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