'mostly' little known tip that will help with reducing the size of conversions

[Kitsune1982]

Hello all, Kitsune1982 here again.
I just wanted to share a little tip on reducing the size of your conversions when compressing a game with ultraarc. most of you already are familiar with the crunch texture/bink it and compression methods within ultraarc.
I recently discovered a simple secret to decreasing the conversion output size even further: resampling the audio!

this is how i do it. - note this only works with compatible audio tracks, ultraarc will still compress the game regardless but you wont gain any additional compression if the audio files arent supported!

note #2 - the compression algorithim that i use and get the best results in UA
are msc, srep, exe, exe2, lzma, and tor.

anyway, here goes.

1.Find one of your games that has a supported audio file set. msc will resample the following: mp3, wav, bmf textures and bmp textures.

2.copy your installed game to the temp folder of your choice.

3.load up ultraarc.

4.go about the usual methods of setting the compression methods to your liking.

5. heres the important step!! under the ultraarc freearc compression tab, along with your other compression methods click the 'msc' checkbox. media streams compressor aka msc will scan your installed game folder for supporting audio and will appropriately compress them.

6.let your game compress.

7.when ultraarc finishes compressing, check your output folder, and compare it to the same game compressed without using msc. you will be stunned at how much disk space you save and how much it slices off the final output size of the bin/cab/arc file.

cheers! happy compressing you all! Ja ne!

-Kitsune

[chum]

When game files are high compressible you dont need to tune compression settings too much.

23%: 3,397,386,240 -> 29,672,154: 0.87%. Cpu 334 mb/s (9.703 sec), real 102 mb/s (31.889 sec) = 30%. Remains 01:47
23%: 3,430,940,672 -> 29,672,522: 0.86%. Cpu 335 mb/s (9.766 sec), real 102 mb/s (32.137 sec) = 30%. Remains 01:46
23%: 3,464,495,104 -> 30,746,744: 0.89%. Cpu 336 mb/s (9.844 sec), real 102 mb/s (32.355 sec) = 30%. Remains 01:45

100%: 14,756,547,979 -> 2,258,332,287: 15.30%. Cpu 136 mb/s (103.234 sec), real 30 mb/s (476.564 sec) = 22%. Remains 00:00
Decompression memory is 1639 mb. 1,267,133 matches = 20,274,128 bytes = 0.90% of file
10.0%
Errorlevel=0
Compressed 152 files, 14,756,547,979 => 645,869,480 bytes. Ratio 4.38%
Compression time: cpu 17.30 sec/real 1836.64 sec = 1%. Speed 8.03 mB/s
All OK

[kj911]

chum: What the game name?? Very rare case in last days from found/find extremely compressibble game data.

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by kj911

chum: What the game name?? Very rare case in last days from found/find extremely compressibble game data.

Dude this topic is over 5 years old! Check post dates before digging up dead threads