DexX Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) I've also just modified the handling.dat, and deleted the Banshees handling, but when I went into game, the banshee was still outside of my property, I got into it and it still drove the same... Vehicle data is saved with the vehicle in your save files. To see differences for *handling and carcols, you'll need to find a new copy of the car in traffic (or for carcols, go to the pay n spray). Changes to vehicle.ide were not tested yet. *Mistake about handling. I have even tried deleting all content from files, including the CJ_GTA.dat file and the game runs as though I hadn't even messed with that file... (the level still loads like it supposed to do...) Every file in the data folder (among others), has a second copy in filelist.pak (that the game WILL use!), make sure you copy the new filelist.pak that this mod uses. Edited December 8, 2008 by DexX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerzworld Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Just a note, you must launch the bat file from the command prompt in Vista. If you just double click on the bat file, it will think that your System32 folder is the game folder. Vehicle data is saved with the vehicle in your save files. To see differences for handling and carcols, you'll need to find a new copy of the car in traffic (or for carcols, go to the pay n spray). Changes to vehicle.ide were not tested yet. Really? I edited the Coquette and loaded up a save with the car outside my house and the edits worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAGuy Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Incase anyone happens to use motion blur, you might want to try out these settings (visualsettings.dat) # cam.followvehicle.blur.speed 0.5 200 0.00 0.2 cam.followvehicle.blur.speed.x 0.5 cam.followvehicle.blur.speed.y 200 cam.followvehicle.blur.speed.z 0.00 cam.followvehicle.blur.speed.w 0.2 I've been trying to keep the motion blur while removing the depth of field blur, but I can't seem to find the right settings to modify. Have you gotten anywhere with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KickyMcAssington Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I've also just modified the handling.dat, and deleted the Banshees handling, but when I went into game, the banshee was still outside of my property, I got into it and it still drove the same... Vehicle data is saved with the vehicle in your save files. To see differences for handling and carcols, you'll need to find a new copy of the car in traffic (or for carcols, go to the pay n spray). Changes to vehicle.ide were not tested yet. I have even tried deleting all content from files, including the CJ_GTA.dat file and the game runs as though I hadn't even messed with that file... (the level still loads like it supposed to do...) Every file in the data folder (among others), has a second copy in filelist.pak (that the game WILL use!), make sure you copy the new filelist.pak that this mod uses. Hmm, I just thought I'd chime in here with my own experience. I'm using version 3 of Opium_addicts mod loader that uses the filelist.pak patch from here. The only files I've tested so far are weaponsinfo.xml and handling.dat. I used to need to modify filelist.pak directly but the filelist patcher in v3 fixed that. Anyway, Modification to cars saved at my house definitely take effect when modding handling.dat without having to find a new car. I find it much easier to park 2 cars I want to mod, then save and quit, that way they're right there to test when I reload.. Anyway since the changes are definitely taking effect right away It may be a difference between the two mod loading workarounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 does mp still work with this? i may just have to do a second install for sp modding Yeah it works online. Was being stealthy and trying not to get busted with some sublime mods, or maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilrex Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) Still can't get this to work, and even when I give up and restore my filelist.pak, the game just doesn't start up. I'm following the instructions directly. I've tried this around 3 times, every time I've tried I've ended up needing to reinstall the game. Edited December 7, 2008 by evilrex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippieCommunist Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 can any bother make a skip-loading-screens-at-the-begining-and-lunch-the-menu mod? would make all the resets easier... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunGt Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 can any bother make a skip-loading-screens-at-the-begining-and-lunch-the-menu mod? would make all the resets easier... Already made: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=380533 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glumok Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 can any bother make a skip-loading-screens-at-the-begining-and-lunch-the-menu mod? would make all the resets easier... Lol, that the first thing I edited. Each screens (legal, ect) appears for 0.010 seconds. Fastest loading ! Too bad there is no way (?) to remove the Live thing. It crashes my game 1 time on 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 WHY isnt this working for me!? Retail sh*t? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babarian225 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 (edited) nICE NICE nice Edited December 8, 2008 by babarian225 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighttree Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Great, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Seriously, am I the only one that has problems with this? 1. Replace (after making a backup) filelist.pak to the one I've downloaded 2. Run Magic.bat 3. Replace files.txt with files.txt.magic 4. Edit whatever file you want to edit, I've edited handling.dat 5. Run Hook.exe v3 (got vista) 6. Run the game 7. Watch the game crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 And why did you replace files.txt with files.txt.magic? files.txt.magic is the original files.txt file that the game is supposed to verify files.txt is the newly hacked file that the batch file generates that points to the original files.txt.magic. There was nothing about replacing files.txt with files.txt.magic in the instructions. And s0beit/opium's hook is unnessesary for this method, but if you botch this up, that should work. And if the game crashes before you get the intro screens --> its because of the file checking. If it crashes after, its something else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 And why did you replace files.txt with files.txt.magic? files.txt.magic is the original files.txt file that the game is supposed to verify files.txt is the newly hacked file that the batch file generates that points to the original files.txt.magic. There was nothing about replacing files.txt with files.txt.magic in the instructions. And s0beit/opium's hook is unnessesary for this method, but if you botch this up, that should work. And if the game crashes before you get the intro screens --> its because of the file checking. If it crashes after, its something else! 2 Edit files.txt... replace "files.txt" with "files.txt.original" Thats what i meant! I've tried both ways. First time around I simply ran magic.bat, edited the handling.dat.magic and replaced/patched the filelist.dat. That didnt work. The real problem began when I patched, and started, the game with Hook version 3. Before that I could restore the files and play the game. After the v3 I couldnt start the game at all. Even with the original files. And I use v3 because someone wrote that it the version that works with vista. Its one of two ways. Either is just will not work on my computer or Im stupid enough to miss some simple step... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stigern Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Doesn't work here. Got the steam version, run the .bat file in my GTA IV dir, and then started up gta iv. Only shows the launcher cmd window, and nothing else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n1k Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I've been trying to keep the motion blur while removing the depth of field blur, but I can't seem to find the right settings to modify. Have you gotten anywhere with this? I dunno I changed these misc.DOFBlurMultiplier.HD 0 misc.DOFBlurMultiplier.SD 0 misc.HiDof.nearBlur 0 misc.HiDof.midBlur 0 misc.HiDof.farBlur 0 misc.cutscene.nearBlurMin 0.2 misc.HiDof.nearBlur 0 misc.HiDof.midBlur 0 misc.HiDof.farBlur 0 There now seems to be no extra added blur just the blurry rendering that is used, it may still not be as sharp as when the rendering technique is turned off but it definitely works for me. Defualt blur settings I couldn't stand BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 2 Edit files.txt... replace "files.txt" with "files.txt.original" Thats what i meant! I've tried both ways. First time around I simply ran magic.bat, edited the handling.dat.magic and replaced/patched the filelist.dat. That didnt work. Oh dear... the first set of instructions were just an explanation of how to do it manually.... the second set of instructions just automate the first set.... you should do either one, not both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 2 Edit files.txt... replace "files.txt" with "files.txt.original" Thats what i meant! I've tried both ways. First time around I simply ran magic.bat, edited the handling.dat.magic and replaced/patched the filelist.dat. That didnt work. Oh dear... the first set of instructions were just an explanation of how to do it manually.... the second set of instructions just automate the first set.... you should do either one, not both. Thats what I mean. I did it without the text-editing and with it. Just to be sure I tried once again. Downloaded http://irc.thisgamesux.net/gta4mod/bin_v4.rar Downloaded http://aru.nd4spdworld.com/pic/gtaiv-magic.zip Made a backup of the "common"-dir Made a backup of filelist.dat Ran magic.bat in the correct dir Overwrote the original filelist.dat with yours Opened hook.exe Started the game The game started. I then tried to edit handling.dat. When I did THAT the game wouldt start. Even the smallest change, as a decimal, makes the game crash. The DOS just disappears before anything else happens. I tried to patch the original file with hook. Didn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 2 Edit files.txt... replace "files.txt" with "files.txt.original" Thats what i meant! I've tried both ways. First time around I simply ran magic.bat, edited the handling.dat.magic and replaced/patched the filelist.dat. That didnt work. Oh dear... the first set of instructions were just an explanation of how to do it manually.... the second set of instructions just automate the first set.... you should do either one, not both. Thats what I mean. I did it without the text-editing and with it. Just to be sure I tried once again. Downloaded http://irc.thisgamesux.net/gta4mod/bin_v4.rar Downloaded http://aru.nd4spdworld.com/pic/gtaiv-magic.zip Made a backup of the "common"-dir Made a backup of filelist.dat Ran magic.bat in the correct dir Overwrote the original filelist.dat with yours Opened hook.exe Started the game The game started. I then tried to edit handling.dat. When I did THAT the game wouldt start. Even the smallest change, as a decimal, makes the game crash. The DOS just disappears before anything else happens. I tried to patch the original file with hook. Didn't work either. So it works just fine if you don't edit anything? Try running without the hook... the hook does not need to be used with this patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BliND123 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Hey aru, I tried your patch and the hook (not at the same time) and neither one is working for me...i've also tried the asi loader one to disable the file check but the game doesn't launch if i even have 1 number changed in my handling file. I'm using the DVD version, any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle016 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Hey aru, I tried your patch and the hook (not at the same time) and neither one is working for me...i've also tried the asi loader one to disable the file check but the game doesn't launch if i even have 1 number changed in my handling file. I'm using the DVD version, any ideas? I had to run the magic.bat file from the command prompt app. Just open it up (in Vista I did 'run as admin') and change the location to your GTA folder (using cd c:\........ with the dots being your location of the folder) and then once you've got that hit enter, then type in magic.bat, hit enter and it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BliND123 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 No, its not that the .bat isn't working. It creates all the files with the .magic extension but my game just won't launch if I've modded anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Open up the files.txt after running the .bat file. Make sure all the filenames in the file end with ".magic". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 2 Edit files.txt... replace "files.txt" with "files.txt.original" Thats what i meant! I've tried both ways. First time around I simply ran magic.bat, edited the handling.dat.magic and replaced/patched the filelist.dat. That didnt work. Oh dear... the first set of instructions were just an explanation of how to do it manually.... the second set of instructions just automate the first set.... you should do either one, not both. Thats what I mean. I did it without the text-editing and with it. Just to be sure I tried once again. Downloaded http://irc.thisgamesux.net/gta4mod/bin_v4.rar Downloaded http://aru.nd4spdworld.com/pic/gtaiv-magic.zip Made a backup of the "common"-dir Made a backup of filelist.dat Ran magic.bat in the correct dir Overwrote the original filelist.dat with yours Opened hook.exe Started the game The game started. I then tried to edit handling.dat. When I did THAT the game wouldt start. Even the smallest change, as a decimal, makes the game crash. The DOS just disappears before anything else happens. I tried to patch the original file with hook. Didn't work either. So it works just fine if you don't edit anything? Try running without the hook... the hook does not need to be used with this patch. I'll try that the first thing in the morning. Or evening. And yes the game started fine, even with hook, if I didn't edit anything. Last try is without hook. Thanks for your effort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benq Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 (edited) If I modify any file the game didn't run.. I did this: 1-. Run magic.bat 2-. Patch filelist.pak 3-. Modify a file... If I try to run the game on step 2, i can... If i try to run the game on step 3 without step 2, i can't... If I try to run the game on step 3 with step2, i can't.. Of Modifications: I modified the file common\data\weaponinfo.xml .I can't [weaponinfo.xml.magic as original] I modified the file common\data\weaponinfo.xml.magic .I can't [weaponinfo.xml as original] Edited December 8, 2008 by benq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BliND123 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 yeah all of them had .magic on the end of the files in files.txt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipshotgbg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 If I modify any file the game didn't run.. I did this: 1-. Run magic.bat 2-. Patch filelist.pak 3-. Modify a file... If I try to run the game on step 2, i can... If i try to run the game on step 3 without step 2, i can't... If I try to run the game on step 3 with step2, i can't.. Seems like my problem. Thank god I'm not the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KickyMcAssington Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I just want to make this absolutely crystal clear. Do NOT use both the magic.bat mod fix and opium_addicts hook loader mod fix at the same time.. These are 2 different fix's that work in different ways, they will NOT work together, one or the other only Otherwise I have no experience with this fix as opium_addicts works perfectly for me (on XP), sorry I can't help you guys more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0uNGeR Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I think you missed this file in your Batch. \common\data\fonts_r.dat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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