Fallout - New Vegas (1x DVD5) *INNO+Precomp+Srep+FreeArc*
 

Fallout - New Vegas (1x DVD5) *INNO+Precomp+Srep+FreeArc*

1) Extract 'FNV_1xDVD5.7z' contents

2) Move from Game's installation folder :

3) Re-encode the bik video to a ~ 45-50% bitrate of original one and then move it to 'FNV_DVD5\Video' folder

4) Re-encode all mp3 files in 'Music' & 'Sound' folders to a ~ 60 kbps bitrate and then move both folders to 'FNV_DVD5' folder
(you must keep the original sub folders structure)

5) Launch FreeArc and then 'compress' the following files in the Game's installation folder:

Pre-compress 'FNV.arc' file:

Compress 'FNV.pcf' file :

Compress 'FNV.srep' file:

6) and then compress the following folders/files in the Game's installation:

7) Move 'FNV_1.arc' & 'FNV_2.arc' to 'FNV_DVD5' folder

8) Burn or make iso with label name of your choice

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more info would be nice ..

steps 3,4,5 what sizes did you achieve for each step ?
( so that users can see if what they've achieved is close to your actual numbers )

Much like your RFA Conversion.. we have NOTHING to compare what we have achieved
against what you've done. ( I've tried 3x, different ways of re-encoding biks, but have as yet
to be able to have the biks + game folder archive FIT on DVD5. ---> 4.67GB is smallest size yet,
game folder without the biks is ~3.8GB )

hopefully peter reads this AND posts additional info for this conversion & RFA !!! hint-hint

Surely it's nice we can re-compress the games in a single DVD, despite we need to
- Uncompress the ARC SFX file
- Then "Un-Srep"
- Then "Un-PreComp"
- And finally Uncompress a uncompressed ARC SFX file
to install the game.

However, there are some people (like me) that don't want to do all that mess (3x Recompressing, .BIK re-encoding) just to fit the game in a single DVD, yet they'd like to have such nice installer for 2xDVD5 backups, like your "Black ops" custom installer.

Considering it uses files named "FNV_1.arc" and "FNV_2.arc", just like we have "CODBO_1.arc" and "CODBO_2.arc" for Cod-BO custom installer, can we use this custom installer for a 2xDVD5 backup?

** EDIT 1: Plus, for this conversion, it's just the normal game (Updates at most, but no DLCs), or there's any DLC included in it?

About Fallout New Vegas:

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game folder without the biks is ~3.8gb :confused:

Maybe you have a multi version, delete the foreign languages!

About RFA...
the source videos folder size is 2.67.gb, only with videos resampled at ~45-50% of original ones it will fit on dvd5:
e.g.
;)

@peterf1999 I think the same KillerOh thinks. Why don't make 1 DVD with freearced game data and another one with freearced biks? I know, that you're trying hard to get best ratio original:converted but this goes mad ;P

peter must be banging his head against a wall right now in frustration :p

When peter releases a DVD9 to '2xDVD5' conversion, its not long before people start asking for '1xDVD5'.
And when he releases a 1xDVD5 the people want a 2xDVD5 version.

Poor bloke cant win :D

Nice work again to Peter. ;)

EDIT - But this is important! =X

Peterf1999, I've downloaded and run your custom installer (without doing a single step of the conversion itself). That's how the menu looked here in my PC:
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This happened because I've changed the "text and elements size" in "Video resolution" advanced options (In Windows Seven SP1 x64 Ultimate) to 125% of original size. When restored to "Normal" 100% size, everything becomes normal with your installer again.

Of course, as I've used your custom installer without doing the conversion, I've reached the "setup error" screen. However, in this screen, the "close" button in the top of windows (Yeah, the X button) DOES NOT WORK. But only in this window, as I could test.
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And yes, this screen was taken with "Text and elements size" set to 125% of original size. That's why there's no "About" and "Finish" buttons in the screen. They reappear after maximizing the window.
There's no "button disappearance" nor "Exit button not working" in any another installer pages, only in this one. Not that it'll happen if one follows the conversion steps... :D

Unfortunately, Grumpy is damn right! XD
Maybe because his recent 1xDVD5 conversions requires too much work. This one is a very nice example:
- Resampling BIKs (Which takes a HELL of time)
- Resampling audio files
- Create an uncompressed FreeArc file (1st .ARC)
- Then "PreComp"
- then "SRep"
- Then a true compression with FreeArc
- Then pray that everything is working, otherwise... T-T

However, I asked about a 2xDVD5 conversion for this one because it uses TWO .ARC files, like the CoD Black OPS conversion he did:
Considering Peterf1999's newest custom installers, it should be no surprise if it works for 2xDVD5 conversion (and skipping file re-encoding, PreComp and Srep steps) too.

Sorry KillerOh, i wasn't having a go at you, i was just stating how peter must be feeling. :)
I do know its hard to please everyone, and I can also understand people like variations and choices, they also like things to be easy and fast to do.

My comment was just a general comment, not directed at you though. ;)

No need to sorry, grumpy. I know it was a general comment. And indeed, the fact that we (Me and lots of people that asks for 1xDVD5 for Peter's 2xDVD5 conversions and vice-versa) are "Not always" happy with peterf1999's works is, unfortunately, damn right. >.<



To talk the truth, after someone who I know have tested a 1xDVD5 backup of MoH 2010 (From Peterf1999 too, and it uses FreeArc + PreComp) said that the install time was very long, I've dedided to stick myself for 2xDVD5 backups for every time I read "PreComp" in peter's conversions. Yeah, I'm lazy as hell. :D

Also, as I quoted twice, this conversion uses two .ARC files, whose names ressemble the ones in CoD Black Ops custom installer.
So it **could** be possible to use this installer for a full (non-reencoding and non-'compression-from-hell') backup for 2xDVD5. That's what I asked to peter.

Bud, it's true... my head is broken! :D

However here it is ;)
Dudes the next time get the conversions as they are, this is not my work :D;)

@peterf1999 don't cry bro. There are always a few children who want more and more candies ;) Great work, as always. Thanks.

PS: if you have enough time maybe you can do this with Hunted conversion?

I think the biggest reason is that with peter's newer conversions, its resampling biks & that takes an enormous amount of time. Ive tried one at least 3-4 times but still cannot get it quite small enough. "May" redo it using a different 2xdvd5 conversion... or just burn it to dvd9.. tired of messing with it.

I can understand why peter would get frustrated, in almost every conversion he's written someone always asks for the opposite of whats posted. I think to myself if you dont like they way its posted then burn it to dvd9.....;)

Idea! Idea!
 

What... and use the "official" UGLY installer!? NO WAY! :p

I don't believe you'll accept this suggestion, but if this is the "big" problem, why you don't send the "codes" instead of the pre-compiled installer next time, like you did with The Whitcher 2, huh? ;):D

No, seriously. By the ammount of times I've compiled your custom installers, I've learned how to compile in InnoSetup itself. :D
And by doing this, we can "tweak" (Or, at very least, TRY to tweak) the installer to fit our needs. Already did it once for your F1 2010 custom installer, and these are my results:

• Your Conversion:
  • Allows only one language (From the 5 avaliable in installer and the 7-8 from the lang files)
  • Requires re-compression of the game folder almost entirely with FreeArc
  • ... But surely unpacks faster
• My "tweaked" one (Using the main script and a "tweaked" ENG lang script):
  • Allows 5 languages (English, Italian, German, French, Spanish), but only one installed (Ex: Select "Spanish" as installer language; Only "Spanish" lang will be installed). There are 2 or 3 more (Russian, Polish and Japanese), but I've skipped these because... They don't even show in the installer!
  • Contains "movies" and "language" folders as external in Inno, so much less files to compress
  • ... But I've used the Inno compression... ¬¬

For much of my surprise, the full game (With 5 languages) + Update 1.01 + Razor NoCD (Yes, the update won't replace the cracked files) + a "tweaked" Dx9 installer I got with DirectX File collector and AddOn builder (No worries, this is safe, nice and legal) and all the DVD's "redist" files (Including that huge@$$ G4WL installer) fits in a single DVD5... with 30mbytes free! :D
Consider that my InnoSetup knowledge isn't that big, and even yet it's not that hard to know what requires changing - Even for building a custom setup for another game.




...And to finish it all! :P
... And then you talk about kiddies who want more and more candies! How childrish... :P

Hei peterf1999, can you send the Script file that you used to make this Installer, cause im studing the codes with Precomp, SRep, 7Z and Free Arc files with ISDone, but all that i found its in russian foruns :(
Please, help me.
Thank you, and sorry for my english, i'm braziliam

EDIT: I'll use this post and ask for the scripts used in this installer too, Peterf1999! XD
Of course, if possible. If not, oh well... :D

Have you tried "The Witcher 2"? :D
EDIT: Oops, my mistake! This one seems to NOT use IsDone.dll, but includes built-in support for PreComp and FreeArc. That should be enough.
Unfortunately, my "googling" by "ISdone.dll" leads me to... eh... Carribean? ¬¬


BTW, try these installer examples as reference:
http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=11
The "Xenus 2" custom installer uses ISDone.dll.

I don't know how these scrips can help you, but try these too!
http://rghost.net/users/shegorat/
As it contains the codes of the NFS Undercover custom installer:
http://www.freearc.org/screenshots/f...-innosetup.jpg
Maybe it can help you somehow...




For now, that's the best help I can give to you.
Good luck, and greetings from Brazil too! o/

... But before I forget, all the links I posted here came from "russian forums" as well, so there's no excuse. =P~
Some of the "source codes", as I said before, comes with a very basic DOCumentation file (I forgot if it's PDF, PPT or DOC... but it may be in russian too ¬¬) and... to talk the truth, unless you want to TRULLY LEARN the codes and//or modify the unpacking scripts, it shouldn't be that hard to just "modify" the right parameters (You'll search a lot, yet there are just a few parameters to be changed, as I could notice in peterf1999's F1 2010 script) and BANG! New custom installer on the HDD! And I know nothing about pascal. :P

While trying to uninstall 2xDVD5 version the setup returned error and there is no possibility to reinstall game. Any sugestions?

Delete the registry key and then reinstall ;)

This is more about bug reporting and fixing installer than manual fixing registry, but thanx :p

this is an error that you got, for me all works fine (install-uninstall) no need to fix anything.
if you don't like it, simple... don't use it

Actually... This "bug" (Rather a feature) is somewhat REQUIRED.
If I remember well, these InnoSetup custom installers use the game's registry keys to detect if it's installed or not. It's a surprise that autorun haven't enabled UNINSTALL instead of INSTALL this time...

Anyway, in all (or nearly all) times it happens with Peterf's conversion, it's because people FORGET to uninstall the game after test the installer. But sometimes even the original installer left some "leftovers" to be manually deleted. So it's recommended you:
- Use Revo Uninstaller or similat tool to uninstall the game, instead of the original uninstaller;
- Use cCleaner's registry cleaner to temove these "registry" leftovers;
- And, for games with .MSI (Or .MSI-based) installers, The Windows Installer Clean Up is what you need.



Alternatively, buy a DVD9 Media and do the backup. Lot less hassle, much more easier. ¬¬

Hang loose guyz. I've reported some issue to help you make the installer more reliable on particular case but you clamored and accused me of bad intention. Over and out.

I dont see how you think they are accusing you of bad intention?

You asked a question "how to reinstall" and Peter told you how "by deleting the registry key".

and you didnt say in your original post that you were 'bug reporting'.

And Killer's post was very helpful in my opinion.

Killer told you what the 'bug' is, why it can happen and how to fix it.

The possibility was, that maybe it is not actually a 'bug', but a feature of the installer, and the reason that feature did not work as expected for you is because 'maybe' you had not un-installed the game correctly?

Because this is a public forum the info Peter and Killer have provided may not only help you, it may also help other users who may experience the same problem as you. ;)

In my case it seems to be another reason of this error. I've uninstalled the game by original setup before installing the conversion, moreover i cleaned the leftovers with soft from KillerOh's post, and after reinstalling the game this problem comes back.

Although KillerOh's post clarifid the reason of occuring this error, at last he sad: "Alternatively, buy a DVD9 Media and do the backup"... Yeah, right... If i'm here it means i _DON'T_ want to archive on DVD9. The same peterf1999's advice: "if you don't like it, simple... don't use it". The problem is i like your job and want it to be perfect throughout.

Moreover i used to wander the forums so long to say half of people isn't astute enough to modify registry or, what is worse, to use cCleaner or another similar soft. Another ones will get an idea to clean registry without such "revealing" advice. So i've thought more about fixing some scripts than improvise one-time solution ("if you have a horrible splotch on your tablecloth then try to... set there a vase with flowers" ;P). Furthermore the KillerOh's post proves, this is a wider problem and pobably will return in next conversions.

I thank Grumpy to show that actually neither me nor peter are pointing BAMsE for bad intentioning. However, as I said before, all the times that happened, it was because the game wasn't fully uninstaled, or due to some random error during uninstall. It was... "never" a kind of fail from peterf's installes.

BTW... not "his" installers after all...
Considering the "ammount" of code changing required to turn a "custom installer for (The intended game here)" to a "custom installer for (Your game here)"... as long as Peterf haven't messed with "uninstall" settings (As I suppose these are handled by Inno Setup itself, with no need to do "special codes", other than changing the uninstall window), there should be no problem with the uninstaller itself.

However, one have to admit: The "don't like then don't use" answer, plus the fact "his" installers are "closed-source" don't help us not even a little. Plus, if the uninstall issue isn't TRULLY related to the registry keys (As BAMsE said), then:
I **SUPPOSE** this is the reason of the problem. Even because original game installers uses the info from windows registry to "know" if a game is installed or not. That's how an autorun menu "knows" how to enable//disable the "install", "play" and "uninstall" buttons when the game is installed or not, or how an original installer asks to UNINSTALL a game if it's already installed in your system - Something that Inno installers doesn't seem to do.

And going back to the time where I did some custom menus, plus the code Skeraxe sent to me in that times and the fact that these peterf's installers always were "Registry-sensitive", that should be no surprise if peter's installer uses the regkeys for "uninstall" features, like it uses to the "autorun" features ("Uninstall" is disabled in my PC, as I don't have the game).




Don't get me wrong, people, it's just an opinion.
And yes, I'd like to see these peter's codes, and even that he stop sending pre-compiled installers, but the codes to be compiled instead (Like he did sometime ago). So people can do the needed tweaks by their own, or wait for someone with more free time to do these... with no need to asking to peter to do everything everytime and all... Whatever.

OK, OK... At the first sorry for this mess, at the "second first" i know where the problem is. Nobody's noticed the error window isn't black like the rest of Inno Setup? I've realized that todey, checked the "unins000.exe" file and bingo! It comes from original setup, not Inno. During the instalation of conversion Inno creates its own "unins000.exe" and "unins000.dat", but the first one is created at the beginning, the last one at the end of process. Meanwhile Inno moves files from DVD which contains:
so also the original "unins000.exe" (which overwrites this made by Inno at the beginning) and "unins000.dat" (which is overwriten by this made by Inno at the end). As a result in installation dir there is original .exe and Inno's .dat

BTW: i'd like to compile peterf1999's installers myself and don't need to ask him for doing e.g. 2xDVD instead 1xDVD (as here i did).

...

Lemme see if I understand...
You mean that your uninstaller haven't worked properly because the "unins000.exe" comes from... A-HEM... your game folder... and was included along the game files when you did the conversion?

...


And then you talk THIS about us!





Allright, people... some TRUE words of advise...
Everytime you do these "peterf" conversions:

1. Install the game.
   For STEAM releases, it's interesting to apply patches and the like.
   
2. Make a BACKUP of the game folder. It'll help you a lot!
3. Read the conversion
   
4. READ the conversion
   
5. READ THE CONVERSION
   
6. Do the conversion just after understand all the steps, but this time, ignore all and every "uninstall"-related files.
   Mainly "unins000.exe" and "unins000.dat", as the new setup will create them for you.
   
7. Uninstall the game before testing your all new installer.
   Try these software if "uninstall" becomes your enemy (Or just use them):
   • Revo Uninstaller or similar tool will uninstall the game with original installer AND remove all leftovers - Even if uninstaller fails;
   • cCleaner's registry cleaner to remove any "registry" leftovers;
   • for games with .MSI (Or .MSI-based) installers, The Windows Installer Clean Up is what you need.
8. test BOTH install and uninstall features from your the new installer.
   But just to be safe, install it in ANY ANOTHER FOLDER.
   DO NOT use neither the "default" one provided by the setup, nor the "previous" folder where it was installed.
   
9. • Conversion is working? Good! BURN TO HELL!
   • Conversion is NOT working? Now you know why you did a "BACKUP". ;)

Now we'll live in Peace of (Insert your god here. If none, well... live in peace. ;))... Amen.

Yes KillerOh, you understand quite well. But only deads don't make mistakes. I've made tens of conversions and never failed, until now. So yes, it's my blame, but when I've said the uninstaller returned an error, nobody took pains to read what this error means. Nobody realized such error even don't exist in Inno. Instead, you said I should take the conversion what it is, although error clearly sad there is a problem with generated uninstall script. However, one conclusion could be drawn: "take the conversion as is, because peterf1999 can't be wrong". And now one love fella :o

Quite true. ;)

Actually... NOT QUITE...

**MAYBE** the "utCompiledCode record" don't register as an error in normal Inno setup installers (Like the ones we can do with the Inno's Wizard assistent and no much "cosmetics", just simple and plain code), and in fact, there's no "utcompiledcode" word avaliable in Inno Setup manual.

HOWEVER, in several Inno Setup installers, it seems to happen when there's an OLD unins000.exe/dat. Examples for "known" software are WinVista//Seven codecs (Despite I always thought they were MSI-installers ONLY), Spyware Doctor and Any Flv Player 2.2.1, to quote some. Here's a google search. =3

It looks like "peterf" installers aren't the only ones with this error, and unfortunately, the "avaliable" solution for these above was to:
- Delete the "unins000" files
- And re-install in the same folder

Yet, it's "no good" for his custom installers: Unless you know which regkey the autorun reads to his "enable//disable buttons" feature for a manual remotion or try a "Brute-force uninstall" (Like Revo Uninstaller in extensive mode or manual deletion + CCleaner or any another reg cleaner), you'll be UNABLE to re-install it. After all, for these custom installers, the autorun menu IS the setup!

As you noticed in your PREVIOUS post, this is NOT an error with the generated script itself, but with how you did the conversion. Even because the way Inno Setup installers generates their uninstall files are "by design" (The way it works with "peterf" installer is the very same with all and every another Inno Setup installer).

Plus, despite the thanks I gave to peterf for... "his" installers, he never ever explained a bit of the codes, and after he said that "it's not his work", it just make me mad as hell with him and his "closed-source setups".
Everything nice he did for "Several-DVD9-2-Several-DVD5", like these setups, are ONLY with him. So ONLY him can fix the mess, yet he doesn't seem to be fully interested to neither share his knowledge nor that much interested to fix the mess. Yener90, for the other hand... And his scripts are also top-quality!

Due to this, we're all "doomed" to "take the conversion as is, because peterf1999(...)" stands correct. Yes, we're pretty dommed... ¬¬

NEVER include the unins*.exe or unins*.dat files from a previuosly installed game, when doing ANY DVD9 to DVD5 conversion. Move those files out of game dir, do the conversion with the rest of the games files, then move them back & uninstall normally. Then test the DVD5 Conversion ISO's for install / Uninstall. Never had an issue yet, but havent done this conversion as yet. Still working on another project.

Yes, I know peter has been very reluctant lately to post the full details of his latest conversions & hasnt responded much to questions regarding his conversions. He may be away, will just have to wait & see if he responds.

I've never seen steam games with those files :confused:

It depends. Have you ever installed from SKIDROW before?
Sorry, BAMsE, but there are a few ways to someone find these files among the game files for STEAM titles - Even from physical media:

• You installed the games with custom installers (Like the ones "created" by Peterf1999)
• Your "version" comes from SKIDROW (Almost all SKIDROW "scene releazes" of games in STEAM are repacked in very basic Inno Setup scripts)
• Your "version" comes from a repack, like Black Box (These re-packs uses advanced scripts that looks like the ones done by Peterf. Well... we can find such installers in FreeArc russian forums anyway. Here for "not much" info =3)

Hy i dont know how to Re-encode, steps 3 & 4, can somebody explain pls. Thx

read post #10 to make the conversion for 2xdvd5, just using freearc & NOT having to re-encode the biks. ( takes forever to re-encode bik files )

read the whole thread for red faction, Includes instructions for re-encoding biks. Not easily done either!

http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=91683

sry bro but the post u refer to #10, does not explain much .... ?!?!?
i did make FNV_1 and FNV_2 like it said in #10 but further ?

Finally got around to trying this out, adding all the DLC for it.

you need the FNV_1xDVD5.7z from first post, overwrite the setup.exe from file in post #10 ( FNV_2xDVD5.7z ). Then follow the move instructions, without re-encode, for music, sound, video folders. ( look at post #4 ) to show how it looks.

The FNV_2.arc ends up being 2.79GB with ALL the DLC content added to the archive & final ISO is around 3GB ( i added strategy guide as well )

You did that without "Precomp" & "Srep" or with?

without precomp / srep

Thank you very much pakrat2k2! That really works! Tested on Windows 7 x64.

works great i have been meaning to try it myself for awhile but i also added all the dlcs and a few little mods and all fits on 2dvds without problem thanx for the info pakrat2k2 and to peterf1999 for the hard work he did

Can somebody make a conversion (2xdvd5) for the multilanguage Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition?