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

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

i used uelr+srep+lzma2
but you gotta seperate the unreal engine files from the other files or it will corrupt
bpk for videos and srep +lzma for the remaining files
wich left me with 3 data files

below is a list i posted long ago regarding arkham games series

https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=265

Was able to get it down to 3.85gb using another method (just takes about an hour to install unfortunately), turns out I wasn't specifying uelr to unpack/decode the archives with LZO streams

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Was able to get it down to 3.85gb using another method (just takes about an hour to install unfortunately), turns out I wasn't specifying uelr to unpack/decode the archives with LZO streams

thats odd it only takes me like 7 minutes to unpack it....

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

thats odd it only takes me like 7 minutes to unpack it....

Yeah working on messing around with CLS.ini to try and get ASIS to utilise more system resources

[L33THAK0R]

Has anyone tried repacking the "Five Nights at Freddys" games? All games (bar the VR title) are packed into individual .exe's, I heard using the "Delta" compressor is good for binary stuff but with combinations of it, srep & lolz I'm only getting at best a 2% reduction in the final size.

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Yeah working on messing around with CLS.ini to try and get ASIS to utilise more system resources

the version of uelr i use does not have a CLS ini just a CLS dll

in the arc command line i have this

[External compressor:uelr]
header = 0
packcmd = uelr.exe uv $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Has anyone tried repacking the "Five Nights at Freddys" games?

XTool

[darkwolves]

first off removed the japanese videos
no recoding whatsoever


for . pak files xtool was used..

preflate+srep+lolz

everything else

srep+pexp:b64:t4:lzma64:ultra:a1:mfbt4:d200m:fb273 :mc1000000000:lc8

initial size 63 gb

repack size 38 gb

[:( Sad8669]

FIFA 20 Precompression results.


oo2reck ( .dll from game folder )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 11,511,436 bytes. Ratio 122.49%
Compression time: cpu 0.00 sec/real 26.37 sec = 0%. Speed 0.36 mB/s
All OK

oo2reck ( Using .dll from fifa19_cdt_R1 )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 12,016,292 bytes. Ratio 127.86%
Compression time: cpu 0.03 sec/real 24.95 sec = 0%. Speed 0.38 mB/s
All OK

fifa19_oo2reck ( From FIFA 19 Cas Decryption Tool By Razor12911 ) ( Using .dll from the game folder )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 13,134,318 bytes. Ratio 139.76%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 7.25 sec = 0%. Speed 1.30 mB/s
All OK

fifa19_oo2reck ( From FIFA 19 Cas Decryption Tool By Razor12911 ) ( Using .dll from fifa19_cdt_R1 )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 19,663,220 bytes. Ratio 209.23%
Compression time: cpu 0.00 sec/real 7.51 sec = 0%. Speed 1.25 mB/s
All OK

XTool ( Frostbite engine plugin by Razor12911 ) ( Using .dll from fifa19_cdt_R1 )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 12,189,929 bytes. Ratio 129.71%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 1.59 sec = 1%. Speed 5.91 mB/s
All OK

XTool ( Frostbite engine plugin by Razor12911 ) ( Using .dll from game folder )

Compressed 1 file, 9,397,889 => 11,815,147 bytes. Ratio 125.72%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 1.65 sec = 1%. Speed 5.71 mB/s
All OK

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

Side Note : A small question i have, if i first precompress my game and then apply final compressor on the archive that was precompressed VS if i use all Precompressor + Compressor + Final Compressor at the same time. Will the results differ?

What do you mean?

If you precompress into an archive, then compress the archive, your result will be near identical but then if you want to install it will be rough and take a long time since the installer has to go through 2x archive extractions.

Also, always use srep after precompression before main compressor (lzma, lolz).

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

What do you mean?

If you precompress into an archive, then compress the archive, your result will be near identical but then if you want to install it will be rough and take a long time since the installer has to go through 2x archive extractions.

Also, always use srep after precompression before main compressor (lzma, lolz).

Yeah, i had a rough time decompressing 2x archives but the reason i asked this is because FIFA 20 is such a pain to precompress, such as XTool would use no CPU and oo2reck takes alot of time to combine with srep+lolz.

I managed a script for the 2x decompressing but still there isn't a perfect method for this FIFA 20.

Another question : Is it normal that lolz would give good ratio at the start but as the compression proceeds the ratio is again somewhere near 90%?

Here is the script if a newbie like me wants it.

Delete.bat

del /q data.arc
del /q data1.arc
del /q data2.arc

Put it in your script at the end like this.

[Run]
Filename: "{app}\Delete.bat"; Parameters: "/x"

Pack your .bat into an archive and have the installer decompress it as the last archive.

[sajmon83]

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare v1.5
Original size 43,98 GB One language >>> 28,9 GB nothing ripped

Rest of the files - xtool_zlib+xtool_reflate+srep_new+exe2+lolz:dtb1:d 512m:mtt1:mc1023
(Remember to include the excluded files *.bik)

Compressed 61 files, 201,831,994 => 177,030,256 bytes. Ratio 87.71%
Compression time: cpu 0.66 sec/real 286.18 sec = 0%. Speed 0.71 mB/s

*.ff - xt_lz4+srep_new+lolz:dtb1:d512m:mtt1:mc1023

Compressed 160 files, 8,719,655,516 => 2,827,032,378 bytes. Ratio 32.42%
Compression time: cpu 84.20 sec/real 14567.64 sec = 1%. Speed 0.60 mB/s

*imagefile*.pak - xt_lz4+srep_new+lolz:dtb1:d512m:mtt1:mc1023

Compressed 55 files, 25,549,011,556 => 16,964,022,922 bytes. Ratio 66.40%
Compression time: cpu 2032.28 sec/real 120887.58 sec = 2%. Speed 0.21 mB/s

*soundfile*.pak - xt_zlib+srep_new+exe2+razor_mtx

Compressed 75 files, 9,662,131,138 => 8,617,389,016 bytes. Ratio 89.19%
Compression time: cpu 22.06 sec/real 1954.92 sec = 1%. Speed 4.94 mB/s

*.bik - bpk
You have to exclude these files give the error MotionData_warn

ar_hud_demo.bik
*videolog*.bik
captured_elevator_controls.bik
flydrone_UI.bik
intel_screen_*.bik
jammer_UI_loop.bik
lab_uploadscreen.bik
playermech_bootup.bik
playermech_outro.bik
recovery_training_transition.bik
sanfran_dronefeed.bik

Compressed 150 files, 3,089,276,880 => 2,550,444,513 bytes. Ratio 82.56%
Compression time: cpu 1.75 sec/real 231.89 sec = 1%. Speed 13.32 mB/s

Test results in the excel attached file.
An example of an excel file:

[darkwolves]

ripped 352/2 days recoded and theatre movies


on .pkg used xtool

preflate+srep+pexp:b64:t4:lzma64:ultra:a1:mfbt4:d2 00m:fb273:mc1000000000:lc8

for video and all other files

srep+pexp:b64:t4:lzma64:ultra:a1:mfbt4:d200m:fb273 :mc1000000000:lc8

original size 52 gb

repacked size 24 gb

[L33THAK0R]

Hi all,

Could someone please show me what their header for "xprecomp" looks like in their arc.ini? I'm interested in repacking "Mad Max" (2015) and according to the "best compression index" xprecomp yields the best results, however I've never used xprecomp before and can't seem to find it as an argument when viewing the help section of xtool.exe in the windows command line. Thank you for any help anyone can offer.

[Masquerade]

L33THAK0R

Mad Max needs xtool zlib precompressor.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

L33THAK0R

Mad Max needs xtool zlib precompressor.

Ah cheers, I'll see how xzlib + srep + lolz works out