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

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Precompress the game using the Oodle core dll that the game comes with.

Ah right, thank you, that makes it much clearer.

[:( Sad8669]

Another 50 hours compression coming your way. You would call me a madman for that one.

[shazzla]

Madman?! I dont think so...
I did compression marathons since LOLZ released..MONTHS of compressions.
Now what do you call me?!
Loool

Sorry for the off.

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by shazzla

Madman?! I dont think so...
I did compression marathons since LOLZ released..MONTHS of compressions.
Now what do you call me?!
Loool

Sorry for the off.

For the culture xD.

BTW that thing failed after taking 50 hours.

[dixen]

Originally Posted by shazzla

I did compression marathons since LOLZ released..MONTHS of compressions.

-mtt1 -tt2 -mc16 -mt<cpu_cores> - faster lzma:ultra

[shazzla]

Thanks,but i used d1023m. (16gb ram)

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by dixen

-mtt1 -tt2 -mc16 -mt<cpu_cores> - faster lzma:ultra

What about ratio? Is it any good?

[:( Sad8669]

@Masquerade
Do you remember the lolz setting from when you compressed CB4?

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

xreflate+srep+lolz

Beware on using high chunk sizes due to huge streams being decompressed in XTool.

Reflate used since it gives best ratio.

6.6GB ----> 3.8GB

Sorry to always be asking questions here, but what does the pack/unpackcmd look like for xreflate? I had a look at the included usage/operations help section in the xtool .exe, however I don't see reflate as an option there.

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Sorry to always be asking questions here, but what does the pack/unpackcmd look like for xreflate? I had a look at the included usage/operations help section in the xtool .exe, however I don't see reflate as an option there.

Hey, its not like there is a special parameter for unpackcmd.

[External compressor:xtool]
header    = 0
packcmd   = xtool.exe precomp -mreflate -c32mb -t100p --dbase - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = xtool.exe decode -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>

This is version 0.3.9 of XTool, as long as reflate libraries are there it will decompress.

Sorry for any lack of knowledge.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

packcmd   = xtool.exe precomp -mreflate -c32mb -t100p --dbase - - <stdin>

Unfortunately it would seem that this input isn't working for me, thank you for your input though! It's very much appreciated.

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Unfortunately it would seem that this input isn't working for me, thank you for your input though! It's very much appreciated.

You are using the wrong version of xtool mate. If you are online rn dm me i would love to sort out the problem, as it will increase my knowledge too.

Edit: Use this one.

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

@Masquerade
Do you remember the lolz setting from when you compressed CB4?

Same lolz packcmd I always use, detection on ofc

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Same lolz packcmd I always use, detection on ofc

Please send an example with parameters i haven't seen your older posts so i don't know which one you always use.

[kj911]

Any times recompress again the MSTS game Data1.arc package. (46 724 *.ACE files) use Tiny Compressor v1.4

First compression:
Use original settings.
SREP v3.93b, m3f
LOLZ: dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba4096: f1023
Results: 2 743 249kB

Second compression:
SREP replaced to v3.92b versions
One LOLZ switch changed to via d64m to d128m
Results: 2 719 422kB

Third compression:
SREP default switch replaced to: m5f:a0
LOLZ switches changed to via d64m to d128m and added tt8 switch
Results: 2 715 396kB

Note: Don't use tt256 switch! Compression speed hell slowly (and probably minimally better ratio), average ~2 to few kB/s!! tt8 doubled to tt16 or any higher ones, min. 100-200+ percentage extra compression times.

4nd compression, its final:
SREP default switch replaced to: m3f:a0
LOLZ switches changed to via d64m to d128m and added tt8 switch
Results: 2 711 752kB

C:\TinyGamePack>arc lt "I:\Data1.arc"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) listing archive: I:\Data1.arc

Archive type: FreeArc
Total bytes: 10,109,289,936
Compressed bytes: 2,776,518,258
Ratio: 27.47%

Directory blocks: 1
Directory, bytes: 1,389,514
Directory, compressed: 315,314
Solid blocks: 1
Avg. blocksize: 9 gb

Compression memory: 4096 mb
Decompression memory: 4096 mb
Dictionary: -
....

              Pos            Size      Compressed   Files Method
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
               31  10,109,289,936   2,776,518,258  46,724 xZLib+srep:m3f:a0+lolz
:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d128m:fba4096:tt8:mc1023
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
46,724 files, 10,109,289,936 bytes, 2,776,518,258 compressed
All OK

This Data2.arc set its recompressed again.
SREP its default settings.
LOLZ: Use d128m switches.
3nd recompress test in coming soon in last night.
2nd results: 625 893kB (First: 628 021kB)

3nd results: 624 127kB (with Data1.arc 4nd compression settings and remove unneccessary one *.lnk and *.log files before compression.) Finalized.
Next step for optimize Binaries data set. (few MB's) and write NSIS based installer.
Sounds packages its finished. Results: 634 861kB (MSC+SREP)
Note: Replaced TAK 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 its minimally better results: 634 836kB. Decompression its works.