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EA Sports V8 Challenge .pdo extract

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Subaru555
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EA Sports V8 Challenge .pdo extract

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Hey all,
Having issues extracting models from EA Sports V8 Challenge, also known by Swedish Touring Car Championship, produced by DICE.
the pdo model doesnt open with various pdo scripts ive found here.
i am unable to attach one as xentax doesnt like the pdo extension
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Re: EA Sports V8 Challenge .pdo extract

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In MS-Windows explorer right click the pdo file then choose "Send to", "Compressed folder".
Tuts: a) Bigchillghost, viewtopic.php?f=29&t=17889
b) Extracting simple models: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10894
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Re: EA Sports V8 Challenge .pdo extract

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If you're the same person who posted the .pdo file in the Xentax Discord - I've had a look at it and it seems to use some unknown compression method. The QuickBMS compression scanner didn't seem to give anything useful.

So it might be a case of someone reverse engineering the compression method from the executable and writing a tool to decompress the data.
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