Whats the best file compressor

[imasoldier]

Whats the best file compressor. Is there one better then zip, rar, ace? I need the best compressor cause im making a back up of all my stuff and right now I just need a program free or not that can do the highest compression.

[iMartin]

You could try UPX (http://upx.sourceforge.net/).

[zapjb]

7zip

[Aaron_T]

Winrar

[Bebi]

winrar

[Afronaut]

Winrar is pretty popular but as I know of, the 7zip is a bit tighter,
and 7zip is free, opensource.


:cool2:

[maskawaih]

Altho not opensource you still can use the program (winzip, winrar) even you have passed the evaluation time.

[imasoldier]

i used winrar and compressed this file all it did was go 7 mbs down and the program was 100 mbs so it sucks!!

[Bebi]

what do you want, 1Kb compression

[imasoldier]

Well ive seen some programs that come with games compressed so far like it was origionally 5 gbs compressed to like less then 1 gb and they didn't use the common compressors it would open up in like dos or something.

[[Spam]]

Well ive seen some programs that come with games compressed so far like it was origionally 5 gbs compressed to like less then 1 gb and they didn't use the common compressors it would open up in like dos or something.

That's UHARC. It's a bit hard to use though.

I like to use WinRar. Make sure the compression method is set to best, create solid archive is checked and the dictionary size is 4096KB.

[Peerzy]

What does create solid archiv do?

[h121589]

WinRAR

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WinRAR

winrar doesnt have the best file compression, try 7Zip

[imasoldier]

i did use that 7zip it sucks

[imasoldier]

i did use that 7zip it sucks and i did set winrar to high and all the above it still doesnt compress good enough how do u use uharc?

[sebastian_insua]

i used winrar and compressed this file all it did was go 7 mbs down and the program was 100 mbs so it sucks!!
Well you haven't supposed to compress a file which has already been compressed....

[zapjb]

I use the 7zip compression extension in IZArc (freeware). It can compress in 11 different formats & decompress over 30 different extensions.:01:

[[Spam]]

What does create solid archiv do?

Solid is an archive packed using a special compression method which sees all files as one continuous data stream. Particularly advantageous when packing a large number of small files.

[tesco]

I like to use WinACE as it decompresses a lot of different formats and compresses to a few of them as well.

But it's not as good as what you're looking for, it will only take off a couple percent of the file's size.