WinRAR slow to open // Alternatives ?

Subliminal Aura · 14 Mar 2013 at 09:40

This is really doing my head in :mad:

Has anyone else experienced this ?

Subliminal Aura · 14 Mar 2013 at 09:49

Yep 7zip is good but isn't winrar faster ?....

Other alternatives http://alternativeto.net/software/winrar/

Anyway I downgraded winrar to 3.9 or something and that seems to have solved the problem. Strange.... I'm sure I've had this problem with 4.2 before

Subliminal Aura · 14 Mar 2013 at 10:52

InertProtocol said:
Out of curiousity, do you mean that it takes a while to load or is slow at Un-Rar'ing.

To load.... it's very strange. I turned off AV and it's still the same. Slow to load but extracts files perfectly fine

Subliminal Aura · 14 Mar 2013 at 11:02

bledd. said:
Opens up instantly for me..

Well it's version 4.2 that's causing me grief

3.9 works perfect

Subliminal Aura · 19 Mar 2013 at 15:04

Django x2 said:
Jeez WinRAR!! More like Win1998RAR. Get 7zip and eliminate all these issues, forever

Anyone point to exact precise and decent benchmarks that are not skewed by compression levels ?

Why can't they compare both with the exact same compression levels ?

Subliminal Aura · 19 Mar 2013 at 15:44

ubersonic said:
Here it is:

And you think that I've not seen it? :rolleyes:

Does this look right to you?

http://m.tomshardware.com/reviews/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436-6.html

Subliminal Aura · 19 Mar 2013 at 17:18

ubersonic said:
If you check out pages 9/10 they test all four programs using a .zip file instead of their proprietary formats.

If what you mean is that they are compressing .zip using different methods, that's because the "standard" .zip algorithm form the 1980's is a proprietary format and Winzip have licensed its use from PKware, 7zip uses its own more efficient algorithm, I'm not sure which method the Rar programs are going with, but it doesn't really matter as the eventual zip file can be opened by any zip software so as long as 7zip is doing it fastest and managing to make the smallest file at the same time I would say its doing the best job.

Christ. If you don't know what you're looking at then it's pointless continuing this line of conversation. The point is that review is hogwash....

Anyway.... I've found what I've been looking for here