XTool 2020 (Plugins)

[KaktoR]

From the shipping exe file

[elit]

In Pathfinder Kingmaker, there is a folder called Bundles, containing among other unity files with *_bundle ending but without extension. These are about 16.6gb.

I can inflate them using latest xtool(with unity.dll from here) and liblz4.dll from ztool(~65kb), however I have to set solid = 0 in arc.ini for xtool. With solid ON it stop inflating at around 800mb into, giving only 17.4gb. I don't know if it's bug or unity files are supposed to work without solid. Otherwise it work fine, just wanted to mention it.
(On side note, punity will not work with that liblz4.dll, give exception loading it.)

Now I am thinking its maybe better to turn off solid for most precompressors and engines I use, such as crilayla, unreal, unity, anvil, kraken, zstd... also mp3, ogg, jpg etc.. except deflate? It seems too flaky and I don't have time to test manually every time 10+gb of data whether it inflated correctly everything or stopped at some point. I know this problem existed for long time.
Anyone with experience, for precomp tools alone solid turned off should not have much impact on final size right?

[Masquerade]

elit
The only precompressor I have seen that works better in non-solid mode is the unity one. The rest is fine to run normally.

[elit]

Thank you, I also just found that it's not even viable option after all.
When doing something like xtool:munity+srep+lzma where xtool is set to solid = 0, FA will pass that upstream. That is srep and lzma will also be applied to each file individually before joining archive.

I found out after wasting hours compressing, so now I am doing those files through batch script before packing with FA. I found using ppx2 to parallel xtool(with -t1) for each file instead of doing "tar" through FA with single xtool and -t100p give significant speed boost as well.

[Razor12911]

Plugin(s) updated

Changes

- Added support for FIFA 22 in Frostbite 3 plugin

Notes

Some streams are left behind.

Just like FIFA 21 wasn't worth it, FIFA 22 is also not worth it.

Tested 1 file, 233,182,965 => 103,625,666 bytes. Ratio 225.02%
Testing time: cpu 0.14 sec/real 179.17 sec = 0%. Speed 0.58 mB/s

They keep increasing compression, I guess as a form of differentiating FIFA 20 from FIFA 21 from FIFA 22 because it's the same game...

[Razor12911]

Deathloop

Usage
Place deathloop.ini near xtool.exe along with required libraries and use -mdeathloop

Notes

The configuration file can be discarded after encoding.

oo2core_7_win64.dll and oo2core_8_win64.dll are required

[Cesar82]

Thank you very much for the updates.
Always surprising us with good news...

I look forward to you having time again and if possible bring us some working plugin for the marvels avengers game.
If you are going to try to develop plugin for avengers and need samples let me know that I will upload them, but they (are 4 GB files each).

[Razor12911]

Plugin(s) updated

Changes

- Added support for Battlefield 2042 (based on Open-Beta files) in Frostbite 3 plugin

Notes

The final release of game might have different compression settings. (Make adjustments where necessary)

Battlefield 2042 Open Beta\Data\Win32\installation\levelsinstallpackage\ cas_01.cas:

Tested 1 file, 405,732,037 => 204,049,188 bytes. Ratio 198.84%
Testing time: cpu 0.20 sec/real 91.37 sec = 0%. Speed 2.23 mB/s

@Cesar82

The tools that are currently available are closed source so unless if there are other methods that I don't know about regarding decryption of Avengers game, perhaps you could make a plugin yourself. (Make it your first xtool plugin)

[ZAZA4EVER]

Farcry 6 plugin

Usage
Place fc6.xtl near xtool.exe along with required libraries and use -mfc6

Notes

The plugin file can be discarded after encoding.
liblz4 is required
plugin made by Dunia/Disrupt Engine Database maker from here
Thanks to Razor

Files list of plugin

common.dat
common.fat
fctber_disk.dat
fctber_disk.fat
fctber_dlc.dat
fctber_dlc.fat
fctworlds.dat
fctworlds.fat
installpkg.dat
installpkg.fat

Plugin tested

Compressed 10 files, 38,471,392,432 => 55,786,073,159 bytes. Ratio 145.01%
Compression time: cpu 72.53 sec/real 1936.74 sec = 4%. Speed 19.86 mB/s
All OK

use Xtool V_0.3.21 and liblz4

[daveyrob]

does anybody know why i cant get the bethesda plugin to work with skyrim? maybe it needs updating or something? it encodes just fine using the r3 version posted earlier with latest xtool but it fails to decode, the command line error is EThredException: error in the method 'skyrim'

i tried the bsa.dll from mega aswell but that fails to do anything, i also tryed multiple versions of xtool with no luck, would somebody kindly help me out??

[KaktoR]

Because the plugin is broken again.

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

[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