UltraARC for Inno Setup (Conversion Tool)

[Razor12911]

Nah, not really. I haven't released anything new because it's the same v2.4, I just used reshacker to edit my program, very easy, replaced msc with reflate.

[pakrat2k2]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

Nah, not really. I haven't released anything new because it's the same v2.4, I just used reshacker to edit my program, very easy, replaced msc with reflate.

Tested using MSC on new conversion working on, & compresses ok, but every time I go to start the install process it caused the program has stopped responding. Redoing compression without msc & see if it was the issue.

[Droppo]

Originally Posted by pakrat2k2

Tested using MSC on new conversion working on, & compresses ok, but every time I go to start the install process it caused the program has stopped responding. Redoing compression without msc & see if it was the issue.

same problem here... tested without msc and works... looks like there is an issue when using msc (reflate)

[pakrat2k2]

Originally Posted by Droppo

same problem here... tested without msc and works... looks like there is an issue when using msc (reflate)

tested on 2 separate conversions & definitely issue when using MSC-reflate.
works fine as usual when not choosing msc.

[elbubi]

Hi Razor, and thanks for new reflate addition.

One tiny and probably silly question: How can I prevent sleep from triggering when UltraARC is running? May be I'm missing something, but I can't make pc stay awake when ultraarc is running and sleep time has been reached.

BTW: I'm using Win10x64, and now that I think of, not in compatibility mode.

Kind Regards and thanks in advance!

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by elbubi

Hi Razor, and thanks for new reflate addition.

One tiny and probably silly question: How can I prevent sleep from triggering when UltraARC is running? May be I'm missing something, but I can't make pc stay awake when ultraarc is running and sleep time has been reached.

BTW: I'm using Win10x64, and now that I think of, not in compatibility mode.

Kind Regards and thanks in advance!

click on start button, search for 'power options', change preferred plan to high performance to prevent pc from sleeping.

[elbubi]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

click on start button, search for 'power options', change preferred plan to high performance to prevent pc from sleeping.

Thanks for your fast and kind reply.

I misexplained myself. What I intended to ask is not how to prevent pc form sleeping at all, but how to configure UltraARC to tell the system that it is working and it must not go onto sleep mode until it finishes and inactivity time has passed.

What I usually do is leave other app which does prevent sleeping (i.e: uTorrent) running in background ir order to let UltraArc working all night long (my sleep schedule is 1 hour), but sometimes I forget to leave another app running just to find in the morning that pc worked only 1 hour and compression job still must be done.

Cheers and thanks once again for your support!

[Razor12911]

guys, did you add files in include folder and script? Those must be included.

[Droppo]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

guys, did you add files in include folder and script? Those must be included.

Well looks like I missed one file, added to UltraArc.iss and seems to be working now (I'm using "Rina_Installer_FreeArc" on tests)

[Droppo]

Well I did some tests...
Game: Age of Empires II HD The African Kingdoms
Size: 4.45GB
Reflate+SREP+DELTA+LMZA size: 1.66GB (My bad here, i forgot to leave reflate+lmza only)

everything looks promising till there... when i test the installation, starts installing without problems and suddenly it gets stuck and it's been like 8 hours since it started the program is still running (no crashes) but still doesn't finish the installation...

[pakrat2k2]

I as well did some further tests & it creates an error, used reflate+lzma
Tested twice more on other conversions & same unpacking error.

[Gupta]

Replace reflate in UA with reflate_std.exe from here
http://nishi.dreamhosters.com/u/rawfilt_v1l1.rar
also rename it to reflate

Note : This one is Compiled with GCC so amd users can use it.

Also Razor if u have some time can u make dll for inno which can show progress with this
http://nishi.dreamhosters.com/u/7zdll_vE5.rar
this one has inbuilt shelwein's rep, reflate, zstd ,zstd_mt and much more and also split** function for multi-tasking and also it is regularly updating
i can use ISDONE's ISEXEC2, but it not looks promising and also ISDONE's Unpack 7 zip feature only support 7z format and this one has its own format "PaFiLe"
Thanks in advance

[pakrat2k2]

^^ What good would that do to use reflate NOT in the package update Razor' supplied, everyone would have to add it as well to be able to prevent the errors above mentioned.

[pakrat2k2]

UA 2.5 still has errors, compresses fine, but refuses to extract. 1 of 2 errors:

1- Setup.exe has encountered an error & stops installation.
2- Starts extraction process but stalls at X%, & sits there forever.

Ive checked 3x that the files from the update are in the correct folders, but the mentioned issues are still the result.

Wouldn't the ISS script need to be updated as well ?? as that seems to be an issue with the resulting Setup.exe
cannot extract the files if MSC,lzma is chosen compression method, works fine otherwise ( anything else without msc )

[KaktoR]

Same here. I don't know much about such things, but Setup.exe really knows how to unpack "reflated" archives, when no function for reflate is in InstallerScript.iss? I can't believe that only add two files in "Include" folder and script make wonders