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

[L33THAK0R]

Quick question for anyone who's given "Days Gone" a go, has anyone been able to process both the oodle and zlib streams present in the title's "*.pak" archives? I've been using oo2reck (since xtool seems to only be able to use one oodle library and both a "oo2core_7*" & "oo2core_8*" are required to grab all (or at least the majority) of oodle streams. I've tried using both "oo2reck + xtool_0.3.21 (zlib+reflate) + srep + lolz" as well as "xtool_0.3.21 (zlib+reflate) + oo2reck + srep + lolz" but to no avail, interestingly the latter combination results in ~15mins of memory usage with srep and disk write operations, but unfortunately also results in a -11 (corrupt archive) FreeArc decompression error code.

If anyone has had any luck or knows how to get xtool to use both libraries I'd be very much interested in any tips anyone would be willing to offer. Attached are the libraries I've found to be the most effective.

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

Quick question for anyone who's given "Days Gone" a go, has anyone been able to process both the oodle and zlib streams present in the title's "*.pak" archives? I've been using oo2reck (since xtool seems to only be able to use one oodle library and both a "oo2core_7*" & "oo2core_8*" are required to grab all (or at least the majority) of oodle streams. I've tried using both "oo2reck + xtool_0.3.21 (zlib+reflate) + srep + lolz" as well as "xtool_0.3.21 (zlib+reflate) + oo2reck + srep + lolz" but to no avail, interestingly the latter combination results in ~15mins of memory usage with srep and disk write operations, but unfortunately also results in a -11 (corrupt archive) FreeArc decompression error code.

If anyone has had any luck or knows how to get xtool to use both libraries I'd be very much interested in any tips anyone would be willing to offer. Attached are the libraries I've found to be the most effective.

Use two xtool instances with --oodle option in arc.ini like this:

[External compressor:xtool1]
header = 0
packcmd   = xtool.exe precomp -mkraken -c64mb -t100p --oodle=oo2core_7_win64.dll - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = xtool.exe decode -t75p - - <stdin> <stdout>

[External compressor:xtool2]
header = 0
packcmd   = xtool.exe precomp -mkraken -c64mb -t100p --oodle=oo2core_8_win64.dll - - <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = xtool.exe decode -t75p - - <stdin> <stdout>

Then use xtool1+xtool2+xtool:zlib