Greetings everyone, TLDR look lower in the post for the '--------------------------------------------' where I get to the meat of the post, but if you have seen my other posting's I am long winded.
I just wanted to make a few comments about game compression's related to some post in this thread.
As general statements go about what happens during a compression. and the tools to create them. Generally many use either the BAS compressor, and the YAC cruncher. I use YAC.
To those who inquired about how lossy the compressions are, I will explain below in the 1,2,3's.
When deciding which to use I reviewed both the scripts coding and here is what I found. YAC has 3 quality settings, High, Medium, and Low. BAS has to the best of my recollection just has the run and go. And If I recall correctly BOTH also have a custom setting where I can set the quality and lossieness, but I have seen a need for it.
1: YAC High quality setting, the underlying tool uses a switch 'if "%image_quality%"=="100" (set "lossless=-lossless -exact")' which claims to be 'Lossless' but lets be honest here, any compression will lose a little image quality, but it is damn good for people running the game at 1440, 2160, true 4k, and the elite few with 8K displays. with this setting I have been able to decrease the size of games between 30% and as much as 60%, but that depends from game to game. So the high image quality setting is the best representation of the developers hard work and still does a great job of shrinking the download size which is why I choose it as my default, and its great for all the display resolutions below.
2: YAC Medium quality, this is close to BAS compression's in both size and image quality, and can compress a game from 50%-75% and is ideal for 720P and 1080P displays, and you would barely see any loss of image quality on those resolutions.
3: YAC's Low quality, as you can imagine this can be quite lossy, at the display resolutions listed above, but is more targeted for mobile devices with smaller screens and is hardly noticeable on tablets/phones and IOS devices.
Its all about pixels per display inch my friends, which if you want to learn more you can find in
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write up by someone at Vanderbuilt University, or simply google 'Ideal Pixels per inch' and you can find other write ups.
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1: There is no, none, ZERO competition between game compressor's. We do this for the love of the games on this site, and for our fellow F95Zone users. This is not a race, for example in this thread there are some who pointed out to
JokerLeader that I already had a compression the game. Its OK don't worry about it, I have a great deal of respect for
JokerLeader and all the compressors here. And
JokerLeader is a hero for the MAC users and they love them because not all compressors do the MAC stuff, such as me. And
JokerLeader 's release is basically the same size and quality as my Medium compression's, and they always do their best to provide you the fastest links as possible. Not to mention they have so many fabulous game MOD's, They know what they're doing, there is no need to drag on them. Enough of my admiration for
JokerLeader much love and respect, keep up the great work you do.
2: As for file hosting sites, I personally only choose free ANONYMOUS host. I always use a VPN and Private browsing mode also known as 'incognito' mode. These modes delete all browsing cookies and trackers when you close the windows that are Private or Incognito. I highly suggest you all use a VPN to keep your ISP's eyes off your traffic, but at VERY least use Private or Incognito to keep those in your households from seeing your browsing activities on sites such as this. But again I only use free and anonymous to limit the number of 'fingerprints' on the internet as a whole.
3: I have the greatest of respect for the game developers for the tireless effort bringing their games to life so I use my game compression's as an opportunity to advertise their links in my posting's trying to encourage people to donate to them when possible. I also have a great deal of respect for my fellow modders, walkthrough creators, Andriod porters and of course compressor's. Please be kind to them, they are here for US ALL as a community. And lets not forget the moderation teams that do a fabulous job keeping this site fun, clean of drama and virus', and most importantly safe from getting pulled down from the internet making us all lose. Please don't argue with them about rules you don't like(mainly rule 7 which seems to cause the most grief) they have these rules for us all, to keep this site from getting dropped from by web host, and out of any legal jeopardy. Please show them love and respect, they do so much for us in the background, and still they are quite quick with tickets and reports.
I know, I know me being long winded again, but if you did read the whole post, you have gained some understanding about display resolutions and game compression's. Kudo's to you, you made it to the end.
And the @'s, these are not calling anyone out, but I wanted to address everything in 1 post, I love all my fellow F95Zone users, especially those who may not like me. Only love can make this world a better place.
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Have a great day/evening/night everyone, peace and love baby, peace and love
Nicestgamer
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