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[nha]

Hey all, I don't know about anyone else, but the camera system in the new World Cup game for xbox1 is really quite bad - its way too high!...and when I use the ingame height option to reduce it, I'm not kidding it moves the smallest amount ever!

I've included the config.dat (uncompressed original) file for someone to see if they can fix this?

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/9610441/config.rar.html

What I did was uncompress the dat using gfxpak.exe, edit the lines

CAMERA_ZOOM_MODIFIER = 0.2
CAMERA_HEIGHT_MODIFIER = 0.15

to

CAMERA_ZOOM_MODIFIER = 4
CAMERA_HEIGHT_MODIFIER = 3

But this just made the game freeze at the start logo. However on previous versions of fifa this seemed to work???

P.S. Game has been ripped to the HD if anyone was wondering - (I know editing files and putting back to dvd - doesn't work).

[gothi]

Perhaps the max value is 1.00 or perhaps the game only accepts floats (4.00 and 3.00 instead of just 4 and 3).

If I were you I would increase each value by a single amount (0.3 and 0.16 respectively) and see if the game loads, if it does try 1.00 and try again. Repeat until you find max value.

[BrokenArrow]

Something is happening in the editing process, so let me see what you are doing. Decompressing config.dat then opening the newly decompressed file in notepad and changing those values? I would suggest not using notepad but hexworkshop (to keep same file size), lower the values to 1.00 (like gothi suggested) and then compress it again and try that.

[nha]

Hi guys thanks for ur replies...

That was actually the first thing that I thought...so I did try just changing the value but keeping the same decimals - i.e. instead of 0.3 i tried 0.9 and i did use hex to edit this....when i recomiled the dat, and exchanged it on the harddrive, the same feerzing happens?? This worked on fifa 06, so why wouldn't it work here? Anyone else care to try?

[gothi]

I don't have the game so can't help other than suggesting things.

I did come across one game where editing the default config file that came on the disc made it fail to load. I think the game CRC'd the file on loading and just crashed if it got a value different to what it was expecting, it may that this is the case here.

[edit]
Just downloaded a copy of gfxpak.exe (0.57) and it couldn't list the files in config.dat, what version are you using?  You should try extracting the contents and then recompiling to make sure that the program is recompiling the file correctly.

This post has been edited by gothi: Apr 29 2006, 05:18 PM

[nha]

Hey Gothi,

Thats a good point! But...unfortunately, the recompiled dat file is the same size, and I tested one without any changes and it worked fine... I'll double check though.

Cheers

[aruaru]

gothi: You canedit the file in a hex editor and change "BIG4" to "BIGF" (offset 0x6-0x9) and any version of gfxpak, eazip, or countless other utils should open it up.

nha: I seriously doubt that when you recompile the dat file with gfxpak, the size would be the same... EA used a simple "store" LZ compression method on config.dat (which means 99% of the text data is readable and editable using a hex editor on the original file)... but gfxpak would provide a better compression ratio and create a much smaller file (which means, the edited file will be smaller than the original). Your best bet is to whip out a hex editor and modify the original LZ compresed config.dat file without moving any data around.