[elmedin]

I made a batch script to convert all your server files in a bz2 format since some FastDL's require that, hopefully this will be useful. (this should be in a .bat file, ex: script.bat)

**Don't forget to download 7-zip for this to work**

PHP Code:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

REM Set the path to 7-Zip executable
set "zipPath=C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"

REM Set the path to the folder containing files to be converted
set "sourceFolder=C:\your\folder\with\files\cstrike"

REM Set the path to the folder where you want to save the compressed files
set "destinationFolder=C:\your\folder\saving\compressed\files"

REM Ensure the destination folder exists
if not exist "%destinationFolder%" mkdir "%destinationFolder%"

REM Define the list of file extensions to be ignored
set "ignoreExtensions=.cfg .bat .ico .txt .scr .log .css"

REM Compress files in the source folder and its subfolders into .bz2 format
for /r "%sourceFolder%" %%i in (*) do (
    set "relativePath=%%i"
    set "relativePath=!relativePath:%sourceFolder%=!"

    REM Get the file extension of the current file
    set "fileExtension=%%~xi"

    REM Check if the file extension is in the list of ignored extensions
    echo "!ignoreExtensions!" | find "!fileExtension!" > nul && (
        echo Ignoring: "%%i"
    ) || (
        "%zipPath%" a -tbzip2 "%destinationFolder%!relativePath!.bz2" "%%i"
        echo Compressed: "%%i"
    )
)

echo Compression completed.
pause 


[fysiks]

IIRC, fast download uses only uncompressed files for Half-Life-based (HLDS) games. I read that most Source-based games support this though but in that case this would only be applicable in the Source Servers (SRCDS) forum.

[elmedin]

Originally Posted by fysiks IIRC, fast download uses only uncompressed files for Half-Life-based (HLDS) games. I read that most Source-based games support this though but in that case this would only be applicable in the Source Servers (SRCDS) forum.

Actually a hosting service i am currently using requires bz2 compressed format for CS 1.6 files. I'm not sure if they're the only one.

[DeteCT0R]

Originally Posted by fysiks IIRC, fast download uses only uncompressed files for Half-Life-based (HLDS) games. I read that most Source-based games support this though but in that case this would only be applicable in the Source Servers (SRCDS) forum.

Actually Half-Life-based games support gzip but no bz2. (I never tested gzip on any HL Based game because model and map size is not that big like in Source engine)

[elmedin]

Originally Posted by DeteCT0R Actually Half-Life-based games support gzip but no bz2. (I never tested gzip on any HL Based game because model and map size is not that big like in Source engine)

Hmm probably you're right, the host admin just told me to bz2 compress them which was very weird because i never had to compress any cs 1.6 files ever. Gonna recheck this and if its true gonna delete this thread and put it for source if anyone wants to use this batch.

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by DeteCT0R Actually Half-Life-based games support gzip but no bz2. (I never tested gzip on any HL Based game because model and map size is not that big like in Source engine)

Do you have any documentation that you can point me to that mentions gzip support with HLDS games? This is the first time I've seen this stated. I know that HLDS does its own compression for direct/trickle download for some files (these are the .ztmp files and they reside right next to the original files are not not used at all if the files are available on fast download).

[DeteCT0R]

There is no documentation anywhere not even on wiki. Probably people didnt know because mapsize small and dont really need.
But i saw somewhere on github Alfred said this.

[pokezao]

Here you have more information about that: https://github.com/R4to0/scstuff/wik...oad-in-GoldSrc

[fysiks]

Nice, thanks for this info.

[amirwolf]

Does it work?