Question about upcoming 1.08 & file compression

[john_mcclane 0]

Any chance of seeing a RAR version of the patch instead, or as an alternative to ZIP?

I realize I'm not amongst the majority, but I'm still stuck with dial-up, and RAR files can be quite a bit more compact. In the case of a 300MB patch, possibly as much as 40 - 50MB smaller, which is very substantial with such a slow connection.

Thanks for reading this.

[Maddmatt 1]

Or even better, a self extracting 7-zip archive. It's even better compression than *.rar. Guru3d.com use it for their downloads and it works great.

[Dwarden 1125]

i vote for 7-zip too as OSS and better compression ...

[Marines 0]

i vote for 7-zip too as OSS and better compression ...

7-Zip is a far better compression utility than most of the others. I also would like to see said utility used.

[john_mcclane 0]

Thanks for the input, guys. 7-zip does sound like a very good alternative.

[Snake Man 407]

Any chance of seeing a RAR version of the patch instead, or as an alternative to ZIP?

I realize I'm not amongst the majority, but I'm still stuck with dial-up, and RAR files can be quite a bit more compact. In the case of a 300MB patch, possibly as much as 40 - 50MB smaller, which is very substantial with such a slow connection.

Thanks for reading this.

Watch out what you're saying or moderators in BIS forum label you as "whiner". Been there and done that...

[bravo 6 0]

i vote for 7-zip too as OSS and better compression ...

me too! i always use 7.zip program

[Lester 0]

Uha is in the most cases better than 7zip

[bonko the sane 2]

and on top of the .7z compression BIS and related sites could make a .torrent mirror, thats the way to do it, in the 1.04\ 1.05 patch i had lots of corrupted dloads from regular mirrors