Report Issues with Compacted Games and Programs Here!

[Iridium-IO]

This page is for posting issues with compression. I will periodically update this main post with the submitted results, and merge related comments to keep it tidy. This is not for games that just have poor compression ratios.
Please use this format:

• Game name
• Issue (Compression Fails | Game decompresses itself at launch | Slowdowns | Game freezes up etc.)
• Resolution (Decompress to resolve | Reinstall game | No fix attempted)
• Additional Details as you deem necessary

Known Issues

• Guild Wards 2 - Game decompresses itself at launch. Causes the game to freeze while it occurs.
• Secret World Legends - Game decompresses itself at launch.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Game does not progress past main menu. Decompress to resolve.
• LOTR Onine - Patching will freeze, Game crashes. Decompress to resolve

[viveks680]

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

• Issues
  • Main menu loads but you cannot progress further. Game freezes when you try to load from the menu or run the benchmark.
• Resolution - Decompress to Resolve
   

Noted and updated ~ @ImminentFate

[Choonce]

Lord of the Rings Online

• Issues
  • Patcher will never actually patch and freezes, decompressing the game will allow me to patch the game
  • after patching, recompressing will just make the launcher hang indefinitely, and crashes.
• Resolution - Decompress to Resolve
   

Noted and updated ~ @ImminentFate

[icenode]

With Forza Horizon 3, hardly any files compact, only 3/2912. Is this because it's a Windows Store game?

[Iridium-IO]

@icenode this is not the sort of error for this section, but Windows Store games are more protected; you'll need to take ownership of the game folder and then run compact on it with the force options enabled.

[Choonce]

Found another one - Elder Scrolls online (only tested steam version) but it also seems to fail whenever there's a new patch. Uncompressing the folder fixes it and allows the game to patch. It seems that MMOs or anything that needs to "patch" has a hard time with compressed files for whatever reason. It might be trying to verify the sizes of the files and fails, but I'm not sure.

[SubSonix]

@Choonce ESO seems to be fine for me (Steam) as It updated last night without issue.

[Choonce]

Interesting, my patcher would fail and ask to repair the game when the files were compressed.

[SubSonix]

I'll let you know what happens on the next update

[RandomHypnotica]

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

• Issues
  • The main menu can be navigated but is not displayed, and when attempting to load a saved game or quit game, the game freezes and must be closed from Task Manager
• Resolution - Decompress to Resolve

[kn00tcn]

would compact /compactOS have the same issues?

[RandomHypnotica]

Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to. I used /compact /c /s it only compacted 200mb, but the game menu now works fine.

[Zaploid]

• Ark: Survival Evolved

• Issue: Game Decompresses at launch and loading is 2-3x slower

• Resolution: Decompress to resolve (Just reboot game after it decompresses itself and live with a large game)

[David-Lor]

All games

• Issue: all the compressed game folders got corrupted. Coudln't read the files (so not able to play the games), nor delete the folders.
• Resolution: use the Unlocker application to remove the folders, then download all the games again from Steam, Origin, Uplay...
  Problem also reported here: All my compressed folders got corrupted #166

[Tazriel]

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

• Issues

  • Main menu loads but you cannot progress further. Game freezes when you try to load from the menu or run the benchmark

• New Resolution - compress with compactgui. afterwards decompress only PCgr_terrainlin1.tbf
  or as i did, directly compress the file via right-click - properties - compress instead (LZNT1).

It seems to be an extension to the original terrain file, like updates in mmorpgs (patch0, patch1,...) which are also known to have issues with compact.
The former PCgr_terrainlin0.tbf doesnt have this issue and can be compacted

[Angelus2418]

whenever i add a folder to the program, it doesnt show the estimated compressed size of it even if I change the compression algorithm please help. and i tried to compress it without the estimated compressed size and nothing was compressed

[ValiantBlade]

Cry of Fear

Issue: CompactGUI crashes when selecting folder.

Resolution: None attempted. The games folder it's in works, but it takes over an hour for CompactGUI to analyze the roughly 2TB. Hoping the auto-recompress feature will fix it.

EDIT, this appears to be caused by : #401