Zipping problems

[Tribulex]

I was wondering what the right settings are for zipping a mod using 7z to make a sd7 that combines the ability to be recognized by the engine, fast load time, and small file size. I am having trouble achieving the first item on that list. Before you ask, yes I am zipping only the contents of the game dir, and not the containing dir as well.

Thank you.

[Neddie]

Do not make it a solid archive. I've always worked with Ultra compression, this doesn't work for everybody.

[Red XIII]

I used to have the same problem...

Try compressing your mod into a zip, but use the extension .sdz instead of .sd7 (I'm more of a WinRAR user, so please correct me if I'm wrong about that.) I haven't really noticed much of a difference between the performance of the two file types either, so... yeah.

and Ultra Compression is great. The smaller file size is good.

[TheFatController]

I use 7zip set to non-solid and "Fast" (or whatever is above normal but not the very fastest) and for BA, only about 1-2mb difference between "Fast" and "Ultra" but the time difference in compression/decompression is huge - not sure if that actually reflects in faster loadtimes but i'm sure it's worth it for the tiny size difference.

[Auswaschbar]

Solid archives should not cause problems any more (incredible long loading times) with recent version of spring.

[Forboding Angel]

Don't bother using 7z ultra compression, the difference is generally a meg at most, and ultra takes a good long while to compress.

[Tribulex]

Don't bother using 7z ultra compression, the difference is generally a meg at most, and ultra takes a good long while to compress.

Not really we have a super computer doing the compression. Does it affect load time significantly?

[Neddie]

In my experience, almost twice as long.

[lurker]

Solid archives should not cause problems any more (incredible long loading times) with recent version of spring.

It may not affect loading content ingame anymore, but won't it still make unitsync take much longer to scan? Though I suppose scanning mods isn't that much compared to the time spent on maps.

[Tribulex]

Usually as far as 7z goes, decompression is O(log n) vs. compression being something more like O(n^2 log n). Its just decompressing some of the files in the archive and reading them right?

[1v0ry_k1ng]

lol,

topic could reffer to a trouser zipper

[Tribulex]

lol,

topic could reffer to a trouser zipper

Most helpful post yet. Thank you sir pie for you.

[smoth]

shit, I WANT PIE! Is it too late to make jokes about your bits getting caught?!?