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

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by dixen

All Bundles-UWP-##.pak doesn't work with QBMS

Try this

From Razor12911

[dixen]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Try this

From Razor12911

It works.

Compressing Bundles-UWP-0.pak
Compressed 1 file, 9,145,864,744 => 11,639,426,600 bytes. Ratio 127.26%
Compression time: cpu 13.64 sec/real 170.47 sec = 8%. Speed 53.65 mB/s
All OK

However, QBMS identified nearly 22,000 files with a size of zero.

GearGame\ 14,0 Гб 16.10.2026 19:03 ----
Engine\ 4,3 Мб 16.10.2026 19:03 ----
0000000000006cb5.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb4.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb3.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb2.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cb1.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cad.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cab.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006cac.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006caa.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca8.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca7.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca6.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca5.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca4.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca3.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca2.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca1.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--
0000000000006ca0.dat 0 байт 16.10.2026 19:07 -a--

Testing 1 file, 9,145,864,744 bytes. Processed 0.0%
ERROR: write error (disk full?) in compression algorithm xtool

[KaktoR]

Planet Zoo 2

 19:50:27 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: wwise+xtool:mkraken:core_2.9.0:lib_2+xtool:c128m:mzlib:dd3:l10,d128mb
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 20:52:54 - Overall game size: 42,35 GB
 20:52:54 - Overall input size: 42,35 GB
 20:52:54 - Overall output size: 16,90 GB (Processed ratio 39.90%) (Ratio 39.90%)
 20:52:54 - Overall conversion time: 01:02:25

Install time 15min