GTA 4 .dat file issue

[ag220]

hey everyone,

i have got a little problem with the game: al my .dat files from in the game (eg. handling.dat and stuff) have become unreadable to the game, due to my computer crashing earlier this week.

this is what's my problem: normally these .dat files have a standard program to be opened in the game, but this program has somehow gone lost, and now the standard program to open .dat files has changed to "microsoft office word"... i can now read these files, because they are text files, but the game is unable to open them... has anyone got any idea how i can fix this??

thanks a lot

ag220

[ag220]

hey everyone,

i have got a little problem with the game: al my .dat files from in the game (eg. handling.dat and stuff) have become unreadable to the game, due to my computer crashing earlier this week.

this is what's my problem: normally these .dat files have a standard program to be opened in the game, but this program has somehow gone lost, and now the standard program to open .dat files has changed to "microsoft office word"... i can now read these files, because they are text files, but the game is unable to open them... has anyone got any idea how i can fix this??

system specs: 6gb RAM, ASUS ENGT220 Graphics Card, 2X DUAL CORE AMD ATHLON

thanks a lot

ag220

[Flitskikker]

Reinstall the game.

[ag220]

is there no other way? cause i dont want to lose all my saved games and stuff... it ll take hours to get where I am now

[Hanneswasco]

When you uninstall the game, the uninstaller will ask you if you would like to keep your save data, so you can easily reinstall the game without deleting your savegames.