We need a mpq extracter that could handle more than 800mb

For now, we have shadowflare's mpq, powermpq, and the others...blah

but the programs can't even load more than 800 (I believe) mb mpqs.

The runtime error '6' is the common error for this situation.

I guess we need to solve this problem. what do you guys think? ;)

Why would you need that. The greatest warcraft 3 file is only 430.494 kb(war3.mpq.) 800 mb would also be more than enough for a mod.

Weird. Shouldn't be having any problems until 2 gigs (at least if the programs were properly written).

World of warcraft.

It's patch file is over 2GB

And it has also very cool models. :)

Yeowww. Not much of a patch. That sounds like it's the whole thing?

Quantam, can you explain, why there should be a problem above 2GB? I wonder where the problem is located. Is it a storm-related problem?

Visual Basic is the only language I've used that will throw runtime errors like that, suggesting that it's where the problem lies. WinMPQ and PowerMPQ are written in VB. MPQ files use unsigned 32-bit integers, so there's a limit of 4 gig MPQs, right there. But Visual Basic doesn't support unsigned numbers, cutting that limit down by half. Of course, you could store it as a 64-bit signed integer in VB, but it doesn't sound like that's what they're doing.

I don't think we would ever see a 800 MB mpq

Not in Warcraft III, I'm quite sure (someone might make some crazy mod...). But WoW comes with several MPQs in the 1-2GB range. And MPQ Viewers/Editors should be programmed with general compatibility as target.

World of Warcraft beta install MPQ has almost 61k files, and is 1.97 gigs. I wonder if Blizzard will remove the 64k file cap, soon.