Doom3 PK4 Recompression

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|   **Disclaimer: If the related program messes up your files it was most    
|  likely a failure of WinRAR or Windows or a result of your previous Doom3  
| tinkering and even tho this is the truth of the matter, by running my util 
|  you are accepting the responsibility for any harm that may come to your   
|                  hardware, software and/or sanity.**				
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|                 | .__/|_| |_|_|\___/_/\_(_)__|_|\_\
|                 |_|Presents:                                
|                                 ''~``
|                                ( o o )
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|                      Doom3 pk4 Recompression 0.22                          |
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|                            (WinRAR Required)                               |
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|                             .oooO                                          |
|                             (   )   Oooo.                                  |
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|                               \_)    ) /
|                                     (_/
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|                Presents: Doom3 pk4 Recompression 0.22 
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|                         (WinRAR Required)
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|                          Files in archive:
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| Readme.txt  - what you are looking at
| D3ReCom.exe - recompression tool
| z.exe       - menu used by runme.exe
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| Questions & Ansuwers:
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| Q) Why do I need this program?
| A) Because no matter how many optimisations you have it still takes forever for each level to load in Doom3, even on a SATA 150.
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| Q) What does it do?
| A) Recompresses the pk4 files to different compression factors, this should take much less time to load data and levels at the expense of hard drive |space. Options are:
|    Uncompramised Speed  - footprint = 3.92GB - Uses no compression but keeps the files in a pk4 format instead of spilling them out, where speed is valued over hard drive space.
|    Fastest Compression  - footprint = 1.57GB - Uses minimal compression for faster access whilst still having a relatively small footprint. 
|    Original Compression - footprint = 1.45GB - The original compression factior of Doom3, effectively a undo function.
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| Q) How do I run it?
| A) 1) Run Defrag (optional)
|    2) Make sure you have got Winrar (www.winrar.com) and that it is |installed to the default directory (c:\program files\winrar)
|    3) Extract the file D3ReCom.bat and m.exe to the doom3\base directory and then double click D3ReCom.bat
|    4) Wait
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| Q) It didn't work, why could this be?
| A) The program should type out the error just do what it tells you.
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| Future Versions:
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| ??-08-2004 0.33 More Options.
| ??-08-2004 0.33 WinZIP support.
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| History:
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| 23-08-2004 0.22 Added insufficient disk space failsafe.
| 20-08-2004 0.10 First release.
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| Credits: p-h-l-e-x, Jedi Drake.
| Contact: flexitst@hotmail.com
| Website: http://phlex.tk
| Poject donations to: www.paypal.com - flexitst@hotmail.com
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