At the risk of thread necro, it wouldn't be extraordinarily difficult. The files you see are only visible because there's another invisible bit of data that says "File XXX is located at locations XXX-XXXX on the disc. Other file XXX is located at locations XXXX-XXXX. This is usually called a Master ...

Good to hear

Seeing as I'm going on a language learning spree I may as well try and get the fundamentals of C# down this weekend, if this endeavor is successful I'll have a hack at bug-checking the rest of the posted code with the suggested modifications.

Well if it's 32 bit you'd need something that can hold eight bytes-- maybe typecast a long double or something? Forgive me as my C# is limited, i don't know how many bytes are assigned to the variable types offhand. It sounds like you're having overflow issues. I remember I have a decent article on ...

That's more nVidia than M$ for you. Despite all the green fanboys whining about how "bad" ATi's drivers are, at least they don't BSOD every 20 mins. on the dot in Planetside, BSOD on update sometimes and generally act funny/CTD when under texture load. (in XP too, btw!) Hating my GF 7900GTX atm. Eno...

Odd, I never regretted my Vista update

The second idea is pretty random, I just threw it out there. When all's said and done, however, I think the anti-tampering thing is pretty viable, especially when you factor in compression to the final filesize.

I'd be willing to bet the contiguity check is to verify that files haven't been tampered with-- i.e. you can't modify a file by replacing all the data in the original chunk with whatever you intended: if the file's too small, the ends won't line up; if it's too large you can't fill up the space and ...

Afraid I can't help you there. I haven't heard of this happening much, but in theory it should be possible.

I have to hand it to these guys, the programmers over at NCSoft are clever b*stards :P But on the other hand it's been stated that most of the architecture is to baffle any potential hacker into submission. From what I have been able to fathom out from various research is the hardcore info is serve...

Just out of curiosity did you delete any other files/folders? While storing client data on their physical computer is far from unheard of in an MMO, I've never seen an instance where it's located in an archive. I have to hand it to these guys, the programmers over at NCSoft are clever b*stards :P Bu...

yes, lovely. We've already been able to do that. Please read the entirety of the thread before posting, it makes this sort of thing unnecessary.

That would actually make a lot of sense, considering the gibberish filenames of the few successfully extracted files.

I can imagine that would improve performance a bit as well, with GW being the uber-demanding game it is, every little bit helps

This would probably scrap most of the progress on extraction so far, too. How is it in terms of size comparison?

Once I finalize my learning of the anatomy of a Windows app (I just have experience with D3D) I'd be more than happy to write a framework. I already know about the window classes, event handler/message loop, etc. I guess I may even be able to take a good chunk out of it now/in the near future, my on...

Yes, this is true, however being able to combine the really wide range of file formats found in the forums would be of real benefit. Combine this with the wiki and new formats could be added on-the-fly.