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

[KaktoR]

Here is another test. You can use xtool without any precompression too.

xtool+4x4:lzma
Compressed 7,383 files, 31,661,584,708 => 8,601,282,118 bytes. Ratio 27.17%
Compression time: cpu 16.39 sec/real 1506.53 sec = 1%. Speed 21.02 mB/s
All OK

28min

srep+4x4:lzma
Compressed 7,383 files, 31,661,584,708 => 8,601,527,510 bytes. Ratio 27.17%
Compression time: cpu 24.27 sec/real 2312.41 sec = 1%. Speed 13.69 mB/s
All OK

38min

[External compressor:xtool]
header    = 0
default   = -c64mb -t100p
packcmd   = "{compressor}.exe" precomp { -moption} --dbase --dedup=3 - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = "{compressor}.exe" decode -t100p - - <stdin> <stdout>

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Gehrman

Is there a way to control memory usage during decompression in SREP.exe?

LAST MINUTE EDIT: Just realized you're talking about using xtool's srep functionality, so not sure if this is useful at all

I use the following settings in my "CLS.ini" file, I do use the CLS version of Srep for decompression so not sure if that would have any impact if you're using a non-CLS package.

[Srep]
Bufsize=24m
transfer_ReadBufSize=512k
transfer_WriteBufSize=512k
Memory=60%-2048m
TempPath={app}

[Srep_new]
Bufsize=24m
transfer_ReadBufSize=512k
transfer_WriteBufSize=512k
Memory=60%-2048m
TempPath={app}