XTool 2020 (Plugins)

[daveyrob]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Because the plugin is broken again.

It worked on a specific xtool version, but I don't remember which of them.

ahh thank you , glad to know i wasnt doing something wrong, i did notice the r2 bsa.dll was tested on an early post with xtool 0.3.9 but it seems r3 does not work with it, neither did the others i tried, i dont see any links to the r2 bsa either

[Cesar82]

This attachment combination works, but you cannot use the latest versions of XTool with it.

[daveyrob]

Originally Posted by Cesar82

This attachment combination works, but you cannot use the latest versions of XTool with it.

thank you both, appreciate it

[Masquerade]

Scarlet Nexus: Updated Database for v1.04

• This database is for game version v1.04 / Steam Build 7458866.
• Created using Database Maker thanks to Razor12911.
• Follow the guidance in this post for how to use: https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=166

Test on a small sample:

Compressed 8 files, 23,979,472 => 48,613,558 bytes. Ratio 202.73%
Compression time: cpu 0.05 sec/real 11.41 sec = 0%. Speed 2.10 mB/s
All OK

[Masquerade]

Scarlet Nexus: Updated Database for v1.07

• This database is for game version v1.07 / Steam Build 7988311.
• Created using Database Maker thanks to Razor12911.
• Follow the guidance in this post for how to use: https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=166
  
  

    Compressing pakchunk47-WindowsNoEditor.ucas
  Compressed 1 file, 82,772,046 => 219,071,436 bytes. Ratio 264.67%
  Compression time: cpu 0.13 sec/real 38.91 sec = 0%. Speed 2.13 mB/s
  All OK

[mausschieber]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Scarlet Nexus: Updated Database for v1.07
[LIST][*]This database is for game version v1.07 / Steam Build 7988311.[*]Created using Database Maker thanks to Razor12911.[*]Follow the guidance in this post for how to use: https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=166

the how to use link do not work

[L0v3craft]

@Razor12911 please can you release an updated plugin for Watch Dogs Legion? I tried with this and with different xtool versions but precompression doesn't work.

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by L0v3craft

@Razor12911 please can you release an updated plugin for Watch Dogs Legion? I tried with this and with different xtool versions but precompression doesn't work.

After several tests, I've come to the conclusion that precompression on this game is not worth it and here's why:

1. Weak compression is used and a strong compression algorithm does still work on the compressed data
2. A custom lz4 variant was used for the compression of this game meaning the public lz4 decompressor does not work.
3. I did get lz4 decompressor from ProFrager once before, it works on most streams but some get left behind as decompression just straight up fails, worse at times it corrupts the memory buffer causing xtool to crash.
4. All streams that are decompressed will have xdelta diff files contributing to negative ratio worsening the compression ratio you would have gotten otherwise.

So I decided to no longer work on this game as it seems to be a pain in the ass to only gain 1gb (probably at best), not worth the trouble, sorry

[:( Sad8669]

I digged into WDL once, found out that videos.dat contains bink files both HD+4K and they can ripped using HEX. I looked quite into it and realized that it can be reduced to as low as 15~18 GB. Alot of .wem files too, for which Masquerade made a seperate thread.

It would take weeks ofcourse, just to prepare the xdelta patches for each file since BPK compressor ain't coming along very well.


All of these without using XTool.

[Snake288]

Watch Dogs Legion hi how do I do the compression process

[KaktoR]

https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=166

[Razor12911]

xmemcompress

Supported games

To be used by QuickBMS scripts...

[Razor12911]

Frostbite 3 Configuration updated

Changes

Updated to support xtool 0.4.4+

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

Frostbite 3 Configuration updated

Changes

Updated to support xtool 0.4.4+

I tested it with samples of the ME Andromeda game (cas_08.cas) using the library libzstd.dll v1.2.0 together with XTool 0.3.11 (Before changing parse parameters) and it worked fine (Ratio 171.10%).
XTool 0.4.5 (with libzstd.dll v1.2.0) no does not inflate the precompressed file (Ratio 100.0%).

Pack.bat
arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:c32mb:mfrostbite3,zstd data.arc "pack\*"

Arc.ini
[External compressor:xtool]
header    = 0
default   = -c64mb -t100p
packcmd   = "xtool.exe" precomp { -option} --dbase - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = "xtool.exe" decode -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>


Files near XTool.exe 
frostbite3.ini
libzstd.dll (v1.2.0)

[Razor12911]

Endianess can be confusing at times... try this