WinRAR 4.00 Beta 3

[Marik]

<img src="http://www.nsanedown.com/images/logos/winrarvista.png" class="logo" alt="WinRAR" title="WinRAR" />WinRAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. It offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation.

Thanks to <span style="color:red;">0woh0</span> for the update.

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[Levo]

THANKS

[Brrownie]

[Night Owl]

Thanks for the update. :)

[manu]

does this give more compression than 7z 9.20 coz winrar 3.93 certainly does not compress more than 7z

[Thugsta]

Thanks Marik and 0woh0

[Night Owl]

does this give more compression than 7z 9.20 coz winrar 3.93 certainly does not compress more than 7z

No, 7-Zip gives the highest compression.

7-Zip description

A very good file archiver with highest compression ratio

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.

Command line version of 7-Zip can be used in Linux via Wine program.

7-Zip is the free file archiver with the highest compression ratio.

Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.

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WinRAR only claims that their 4.00 Beta decompression speed has been improved by up to 30%:

Version 4.00 beta 1

1. RAR decompression speed is improved. Depending on data type,

decompression can be up to 30% faster than in previous versions.

Source

[DKT27]

What I don't like about 7-Zip is that the solid compression is enabled by default, that means better compression but if one file is broken, whole archive is gone. LZMA wont easily beat WinRAR. You'll need to use LZMA2 to do so. Otherwise, 7Zip can beat WinRAR in 80% of times. Not to forget, WinRAR only seems to use 1 core here. Whereas 7Zip uses 4 cores to compress and decompress. Means a huge decrease in the time taken. But somehow it has never become my first choice. :dunno:

[Night Owl]

Whereas 7Zip uses 4 cores to compress and decompress. Means a huge decrease in the time taken. But somehow it has never become my first choice. :dunno:

I know what you mean. I tried 7-Zip a few months ago and I really wanted to like it, but I just didn't like it. I'm sticking with WinRAR for most of my tasks, and occassionally I use WinZip. I really like WinRAR for some reason, and the absolutely best compression engine doesn't really matter to me.

[manu]

but if u have storage priblem 7z rocks. it ecame my first choice 6 months ago. i have downloaded modded cars for nfs most wanted about 2.3 gb and it was compressed to mere 230 mb. 90% compression!!!!!!!!!

[DreamHaters]

Thanks :)

[Marik]

does this give more compression than 7z 9.20 coz winrar 3.93 certainly does not compress more than 7z

no it does not. 7zip has better compression than winrar. Yet i prefer winrar over all.

No, 7-Zip gives the highest compression.

7-Zip description

A very good file archiver with highest compression ratio

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.

Command line version of 7-Zip can be used in Linux via Wine program.

7-Zip is the free file archiver with the highest compression ratio.

Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.

Source

Quite wrong. Pay no attention to what softpedia is saying, as they're being hypocritical.

The compressor with the highest compression rate is KGB Archiver, and their bs about 7zip contradicts what they've said about KGB here

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It beats UHARC and 7zip!! (oh look, we're s*itf*cks who can't even remember the almighty KGB

But how the hell could they forget about the app that compressed Microsoft Office 2007 to 1 Megabyte is beyond me :rofl: :lmao: :lol:

but if u have storage priblem 7z rocks. it ecame my first choice 6 months ago. i have downloaded modded cars for nfs most wanted about 2.3 gb and it was compressed to mere 230 mb. 90% compression!!!!!!!!!

KGB would of reduced that to a mere 30-40 MB

[DKT27]

Yup KGB offers the best compression of them all. 10GB data has been known to compressed into 10-100MB. :D

But will take hours to days to compress - decompress depending on your PC. :)

[manu]

certainly there is 6% more compression by kgb in comparison to 7z. but minimum essential requirent of cpu is 1.5 ghz which will increase on selecting good compression. my laptop has 1.73ghz (t2250) processor, i think my system will freeze on compressing large data along with some other parallel running application, though this never occured with 7z. any i am still going to try and thanks for the information

[Marik]

then why it is not frontpaged? anyway i am going to give it a try

because its last update was 3 years ago. I've spoken with Tom, the developer, and he said that the project isn't dead, but when or if it will get another update remains unknown.

[DKT27]

Even a Xeon processor wont be able to to completely compress a 2GB file in KGB inside 6 hours. ;)

It's one of the slowest and most resource taking archiver, but on the plus side, has the best compression ratio.

[manu]

man kgb have enough potential to blow my cpu, for me 7z still remains best in terms of resource using and % of compression

[Tenacious D]

Thanks

[jofre]

Still missing at least 5 beta versions for the final one... :)