GameEX support RAR archives?

[davidj1987]

Just curious as I had some ISO's in RAR archives and they used to work but they stopped working, is RAR support broken in Gameex?

[Adultery]

If have to defer to someone who uses rar files, I prefer 7-zip myself.

The dll might need updating since the new rar super compression extension came out, I'm not sure.

[davidj1987]

Hmm. Odd, and yes the setting to use compressed archives is enabled. However is there a guide out there on how to recompress/pack rar files to .zip or .7z?

[Tom Speirs]

I did replace 7z with a newer version although RAR should still be supported. I will have to test.

[davidj1987]

I finally got back to repacking everything to .zip (no big deal, as I let it process while I was at work and sleeping) and it works now but RAR support may be broken as it was working before. :/

[Draco1962]

What version of 7zip are you using?

[Adultery]

Rar is the issue, not 7zip. :-)

If I had to guess it was that he's using a current version of winrar to compress them, and there has been a new compression standard released. :-)

The 7zip dll doesn't handle rar uncompression... or does it? If it does then maybe they removed rar support?

[Tom Speirs]

The 7-zip command line version included with GameEx should unzip rars. Like I said I replaced it with a newer version recently. Maybe something got broken, I need to check. Its 7za.exe in the GameEx install.

7-zip does uncompress rars, just not compress then.

[davidj1987]

I use 7Zip. However I used Peazip on my main computer to recompress everything to .zip and it works fine. It wasn't a huge deal. I don't have WinRAR on my spare computer and just 7zip (doubt latest version) and it opened the rar files fine.

[Tom Speirs]

It did in fact get broken in a recent release. Will be fixed for next release. In the meantime you can use the attached 7z files as a patch.

7za920.zip