critical_error Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 i ve had enough of handling .dat. For the past few weeks i ve tried every known file check patch/hack etc and still havent been able to edit this goddamned file!!! I have 3 to 4 modded cars that just wont handle... They roll over while turning even at 5 KM/h. So i read that the Center of Mass Z was to be lowered. Did that, still no luck . I installed The GTA IV Real Car Handling RC7 & RC7SC which doesnt seem to change anything. So i m guessing its the file check thingy not letting me modify any values. Anybody have any suggestions ? GTA version is 1.0.4 . Alexander Blade 's script wont even let me play SP with a modified handling.dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutOfTimer Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) I understand you perfectly. I'm also annoyed by bad handling - especially during ranked races. You try hard to win but suddenly your car doesn't make the turn. F*ck! So yeah, the best way to deal with it is to change values in the handling.dat. You join a race, choose a Banshee... and you have such a control over it that people ask you in astonishment - "how the f*ck did you manage that?" Well, baby, it's called superior modding skills... UPDATE: As mentioned by Gangsta Killa in a post below, neither GTA Forums, nor R* allows modding on-line. Contrary to what some people might think, I do realise that aggressive modding with intent to disrupt gameplay is a particularly immoral thing to do. For that reason, I'd like to ask everyone not to use mods in bad faith. They are meant to be a fun enhancement of your gameplay and not cause harm to others. However, everyone has to realise that because of R*'s and Mocrosoft's inability to solve the problem of cheating on-line, everyone will sooner or later encounter a mean modder. Edited November 3, 2009 by OutOfTimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critical_error Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Uh thanks mate... but i dont need the crack to cheat on MP. Alexander Blade says it only file checks in MP. But in my case it isnt even allowing me to run in SP. Any one ? Log File says : // --- GTA IV FILE CHECK FIX --- ////-- © Alexander Blade 2008-9 --// http://Alexander.SannyBuilder.com http://OpenIV.com Started ... Game version is 1.0.4 Files check started Incorrect file I:\GTA4\Grand Theft Auto IV\common\data\handling.dat - 0x3F19C08A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutOfTimer Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) You don't need FileCheckFix to play Single Player at all. The check is performed only for joining multiplayer so that people don't cheat on-line (yes, they really believed it makes sense... LOL stupid R*). The game lets you mod whatever you want as long as you play by yourself. Are you getting an error on startup or simply can't edit the file? If it's the former, then simply remove Alexander's mod and exchange handling.dat for the original one to join multiplayer. If it's the latter, then it may be Vista preventing you from overwriting the file. In that case the fastest way is to save to desktop and then manually overwrite the file. Your problem seems so ridiculous that I'm not sure if I understand it correctly. From what I see in the log file, you obviously have the original FileCheckFix. That means you can't join MP, but the strange thing is... you don't even want to do this. Why do you use it at all then ? Edited November 3, 2009 by OutOfTimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critical_error Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Yeah i m running windows 7 so i guess maybe the administrator thing has something to do about it. The problem is even without Blades mod i have the same problem. i edit and save the file successfully ( which i confirm by opening the file and checking the values i changed.) But in-game there is no change at all. The cars still roll over. i ve modded quite a few cars in the game and sports cars are nt giving me a problem. It s the normal cars e.g FIB buffalo replaced with a CHEVROLET tahoe. This one is dreadful. Rolls over while turning even at 5 - 10 km/h. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutOfTimer Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Has it occurred to you that instead of looking for a FileCheckFix, it might be sensible to figure out what values should be changed to improve handling ? Has it ever occurred to you that the reason why a girl tells you to get lost is not because you didn't give her enough money, it was because you shouldn't have given her any money in the first place ? Wake the f*ck up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critical_error Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Haha... I appreciate you being a smart ass and all , but it has occured... i changed all freakin values... everything... i m not as big a noob as you think i am..been doin this since gta3. Modding handling was peanuts in the past. But i tried and i tried and i tried... To no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermortalhuman Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I understand you perfectly. I'm also annoyed by bad handling - especially during ranked races. You try hard to win but suddenly your car doesn't make the turn. F*ck! So yeah, the best way to deal with it is to change values in the handling.dat. You join a race, choose a Banshee... and you have such a control over it that people ask you in astonishment - "how the f*ck did you manage that?" Well, baby, it's called superior modding skills... You have to use a cracked FileCheckFix to edit handling.dat but the problem is it may be hard to find. GTA Forums won't let me post the address (it's filtered) so look for it yourself. I hope you get your serial banned. You are not supposed to mod online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critical_error Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 I understand you perfectly. I'm also annoyed by bad handling - especially during ranked races. You try hard to win but suddenly your car doesn't make the turn. F*ck! So yeah, the best way to deal with it is to change values in the handling.dat. You join a race, choose a Banshee... and you have such a control over it that people ask you in astonishment - "how the f*ck did you manage that?" Well, baby, it's called superior modding skills... You have to use a cracked FileCheckFix to edit handling.dat but the problem is it may be hard to find. GTA Forums won't let me post the address (it's filtered) so look for it yourself. I hope you get your serial banned. You are not supposed to mod online. lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocka Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 ....maybe the administrator thing has something to do about it. The problem is even without Blades mod i have the same problem. i edit and save the file successfully ( which i confirm by opening the file and checking the values i changed.) But in-game there is no change at all... i had this same problem when i was trying to edit carcols.dat. i thought i'd done everything and in the end i think it was as simple as going to my programme files, selecting the properties on my 'rockstar Games' folder and giving me rights as the user to read and execute (i was already the administrator, but it still needed to do this) see if that helps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azkay Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I understand you perfectly. I'm also annoyed by bad handling - especially during ranked races. You try hard to win but suddenly your car doesn't make the turn. F*ck! So yeah, the best way to deal with it is to change values in the handling.dat. You join a race, choose a Banshee... and you have such a control over it that people ask you in astonishment - "how the f*ck did you manage that?" Well, baby, it's called superior modding skills... You have to use a cracked FileCheckFix to edit handling.dat but the problem is it may be hard to find. GTA Forums won't let me post the address (it's filtered) so look for it yourself. I hope you get your serial banned. You are not supposed to mod online. Go cry, emo kid. Where does it say that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 If y'all want to get technical we're probably not even allowed to mod the game these days. Oh and modding online is cheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutOfTimer Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) I hope you get your serial banned. You are not supposed to mod online. I'm an expert player well-known for my modding skills. My leaderboards records are the best guarantee that my advice is of high quality. I'm eager to share my knowledge and skills with anyone who asks for help. Even though modding on-line is officially forbidden (by both R* and GTA Forums), it is still a fact. For that reason, people like me exist. That's my job in this community. I used to be a Pro Player but since mods took over, I'm now a Pro Modder. I believe this explanation should be enough for you. This is simply what I do. In the highly unlikely situation that I get banned, you'll be the first people to know about this as I'll immediately post a thread about it to warn others. I'll be on-line again the very same day of course (with a new IP and a new serial number, which I have many). Edited November 3, 2009 by OutOfTimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalomaniac Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 I'm having a similar problem with editing the handling.dat file. I only wnted to load a drifting string for single player free roam, because the game is getting a little boring. I have vista with 1.0.4 patch installed and use yaasil mod loader, which works fine for the 10 or so modded cars and native trainer I have in the game. Asi loader makes the game crash for some reason, and AVG said Xliveless had a trojan virus in it. I have tried to edit the handling.dat file with several different handling editors, all with handling.dat unchecked for read only and running as administrator. All the handling editors(GTAiv handling editor, Xhandling editor etc,) successfully change the lines, because I've opened the file in the root directory, and my changes are in there. However, when I play the game, noting is different!! I even changed a front drive car to RWD, checked the changes in the handling.dat to make sure the changes were there, which they were, and still no change. What am I doing wrong? I even tried the 8byte filelist.pak thing, and still nothing. I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetidd Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I'm having a similar problem with editing the handling.dat file. I only wnted to load a drifting string for single player free roam, because the game is getting a little boring. I have vista with 1.0.4 patch installed and use yaasil mod loader, which works fine for the 10 or so modded cars and native trainer I have in the game. Asi loader makes the game crash for some reason, and AVG said Xliveless had a trojan virus in it. I have tried to edit the handling.dat file with several different handling editors, all with handling.dat unchecked for read only and running as administrator. All the handling editors(GTAiv handling editor, Xhandling editor etc,) successfully change the lines, because I've opened the file in the root directory, and my changes are in there. However, when I play the game, noting is different!! I even changed a front drive car to RWD, checked the changes in the handling.dat to make sure the changes were there, which they were, and still no change. What am I doing wrong? I even tried the 8byte filelist.pak thing, and still nothing. I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!!!!!! wow Bro, it's the same sh*t that happen for me, i change many line (for my bike) like a mass @ 20000 (lol), and nothing happen... If there is a way to change it, please help us... It's boring to play like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalomaniac Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I managed to get it to work for awhile with Xliveless. Now I'm back to being unable to edit the handling again even after 3 fresh installs. see if these suggestions might help.HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin619 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I running 1.1.2.0 and when I replace handling lines for cars that come in the "read me" it works and lets me save it. But when I go to play a small black screen comes up for a few seconds then goes a way and GTA IV never launches but when I put the original handling.dat back in the game starts up fine. What am I doing wrong? I have been fighting with this for days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007Racer Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I'm having a similar problem with editing the handling.dat file. I only wnted to load a drifting string for single player free roam, because the game is getting a little boring. I have vista with 1.0.4 patch installed and use yaasil mod loader, which works fine for the 10 or so modded cars and native trainer I have in the game. Asi loader makes the game crash for some reason, and AVG said Xliveless had a trojan virus in it. I have tried to edit the handling.dat file with several different handling editors, all with handling.dat unchecked for read only and running as administrator. All the handling editors(GTAiv handling editor, Xhandling editor etc,) successfully change the lines, because I've opened the file in the root directory, and my changes are in there. However, when I play the game, noting is different!! I even changed a front drive car to RWD, checked the changes in the handling.dat to make sure the changes were there, which they were, and still no change. What am I doing wrong? I even tried the 8byte filelist.pak thing, and still nothing. I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!!!!!! Im in kind of ur problem but mine is unable to mod the handling.dat and vehicle.ide after i modded it my launcher just flicked and gone. XD!!! Pls help!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalomaniac Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 what patch & asi loader are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudoboi Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 wtf is people so noob at modding or is it just me?! just click properties and un check read only and press apply and u don't need filecheckfix for latest patch and no asi loader and scripthook or xliveless have nothing to do with this unable to edit notepad sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007Racer Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 what patch & asi loader are you using? Im using razor 1911 Patch 1.0.4.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudoboi Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 what patch & asi loader are you using? Im using razor 1911 Patch 1.0.4.0 srsly? u downloaded the game via torrent or u bought the game>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007Racer Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 what patch & asi loader are you using? Im using razor 1911 Patch 1.0.4.0 srsly? u downloaded the game via torrent or u bought the game>? Bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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