Support saving version 1.6 archives

[victorbush]

Saving version 1.6 archives is not supported. As of now, I don't have a plan to support this.

My understanding of the 1.6 format is the archive data is stored in a .dat or .bin file, but the archive header is stored in the game executable itself. Modifying these archives would require either modifying the exe, or maybe doing some kind of runtime injection. Neither is trivial.

[f411br]

Hello, sorry to revive such an old topic, but I'm trying to improve LOD draw distances for current hardware and noticed there's an unused 'ludicrous' quality graphic preset on 'hardware_settings_config.xml' inside 'game_1.dat'. I understand I can't replace this .xml inside the da file with my custom version because the program can't match the expected hash, but is there anyway to make the game read/override this file from outside the dat file? Or since the game is long old now and Codemasters is no more, would it be possible to modify Zefs Editor to be able to save modified 'game_1.dat' ? Best regards.

[f411br]

Hello, sorry to revive such an old topic, but I'm trying to improve LOD draw distances for current hardware and noticed there's an unused 'ludicrous' quality graphic preset on 'hardware_settings_config.xml' inside 'game_1.dat'. I understand I can't replace this .xml inside the da file with my custom version because the program can't match the expected hash, but is there anyway to make the game read/override this file from outside the dat file? Or since the game is long old now and Codemasters is no more, would it be possible to modify Zefs Editor to be able to save modified 'game_1.dat' ? Best regards.

Also, I noticed there's a hardware config xml file directly under Documents/DiRT Rally 2.0, but it's not the same file, way more simplist, and changing lod values there doesn't seem to work, nothing changes in game, only the graphic option slider that changes from whatever was selected (low/medium/high/ultra) to 'custom'.