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

[KaktoR]

Middle-Earth Shadow of War
Database test

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:kraken data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 477,373,800 => 671,976,339 bytes. Ratio 140.77%
Compression time: cpu 0.34 sec/real 64.02 sec = 1%. Speed 7.46 mB/s
All OK

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E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:mesow data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 477,373,800 => 677,463,660 bytes. Ratio 141.91%
Compression time: cpu 0.45 sec/real 21.50 sec = 2%. Speed 22.20 mB/s
All OK

*Database was created from latest game version

Usage:

Place xtl and oodle library next to xtool.exe

Use -mxtool:mesow

xtl file can be removed for decoding