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GCFScape is an explorer like utility that enables users to browse Half-Life packages and extract their contents. GCFScape supports .bsp, .gcf, .ncf, .pak, .sga, .vpk, .wad and .xzp packages and runs independently of Steam.

Screenshots: Features:

• Supports .bsp, .gcf, .ncf, .pak, .sga, .vpk, .wad and .xzp packages.
• Explorer like interface for viewing package contents.
• Extract any file or folder within a package.
• Shell execute (preview) any file within a package.
• Validate any file or folder within a package.
• Defragment .gcf files.
• Search for files within a package.
• Configurable columns.
• Recent package menu.
• 100% Free.

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There is at least one NCF (empire total war main.ncf) where I see file size smaller than size on disk(GCFScape: Size:3194749405 B, Size On Disk: 1047265757 B instead of Real File Size = 5342233053 B) and, of course, validation fails. Is there any plans to support "BIG" files?

merci

Hello

i have a Problem.
When i will extract files i get this Error:
Error writing C:\DOKUME~1\Source\LOKALE~1\Temp\PlantsVsZombies.exe (Error: NCF files are indexes and do not contain any file data.).
What must i do ?

Thanks for Help.

You won't find the files you want in the NCF. You may find the files in the corresponding game's folder located at c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\plantvszombies\ provided you actually own the game.

Hello. Nem, could you add "lump type 0x40" support. I saw it in tempdecal.wad. Thanks
P.S Sorry for my bad english.

hey uh i want to create or add files to my gcf's but i cant help?

You cannot create or add to GCF files.

i was going to mess with the pak files in left 4 dead 2 but ifound it didnt show up.

so i did some browsing and tied to open it manually and it says it doesn't support .VPK files


HEEEELP

Did you try opening pak01_dir.vpk?

Please can you make a version that allows you to open packages (i.e. *.PACKAGE files). These are found in Spore and I would like to open them. Thanks.

good

i can't find the sound files. i search for steam, i click steamapps then i click on my username, i click on Team fortress 2, then i click on tf, then i click on sound and then every file i click on is empty. can someone help me?

i use vista by the way.

never mind, i've found the problem.

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I installed it, but it seems like it's incompatible with Windows 7.

as far as i know, gcfscape works fine with windows 7...checking...
EDIT: works fine for me, win7 x64

I have been trying to play sounds on CS, but without using a mic, but I don't know how. The only sounds I can play are the ones that come with the game. Is there anyway to import sounds into the .gcf so I can play them or is there a simpler way that I just can't find?

Hello Crabberson,
you don't need to put your sound files back into the gcf file, just put them in the right folder in GCFFolder\<accountname>\<gamename>
Also see HLSS

I have Windows 7 64 Bit, but the thing is, I can't see any files, and when in GCFScape, folders I try to use have a padlock symbol beside them.

Thank you DomIII, I have been trying to do this for about a week now. I saw HlSS in a few google searches but I thought that was for Source only. Anyways thanks for the help.

Do you have a screenshot of this?

Im trying to get some of the hl2 maps and some of them wont extract and there grayed out. Iwant to know what to do

http://s912.photobucket.com/albums/ac321/ravensharpless/?action=view&current=jhgf.png

Your GCF file is not complete. Try running the game in Steam!

Hi guys I have problem with launching starwars the force unleashed with it:
"Error writing C:\Users\Mateusz\AppData\Local\Temp\SWTFU.exe (Error: NCF files are indexes and do not contain any file data.)" , its weird could you add me on steam (my login is: meuron) and help me?

You can't extract from NCF files. They are simply directories. The files that it references are in your "common" folder. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Oh. I found the problem, I had 2 different GCFScape Stuff folders in different directories.

Can you please guide me about what to do after opening counter strike gcf file with gcfscape

i cant find any exe file or any application file to play the game

i downloaded the game from brothersoft

You will find no one to help you pirate a game here. Go find your support elsewhere.

i cant find where to open the program at and its annoying. anyone help?

Double click on the GCF you want to open. Provided you set the association while installing.

It refuses to extract anything from the TF2 folder with the message:
Error writing announcer_am_flawlessvictory03.wav (Error: Requested view (3892761960, 8192) does not fit inside mapping, (0, 101569896).)

The latest TF2 update has pushed the size of the content GCF above 4GB (4.09GB, to be specific) and GCFScape can no longer extract files from it.

Hi Nem. Thanks for making such useful stuff! So, what about add Vampire Bloodlines VPK-files support into GCFScape?

Has a recent update screwed with the gcf again, because I'm missing the models/player and weapons folder, and the gcf shows the content size smaller than 4gb, but the models are not missing in the game.

Hi Druki, those files were moved over to team fortress 2 materials.gcf. Presumably to reduce the file size of team fortress 2 content.gcf to under 4 GB to allow the game to run for users with FAT32 partitions.

Thank you for enlightening me, and for all of your great work.

I need some sounds, but whenever I try to extract something I get an error
" (Error: Unexpected end of GCF stream (0 B of 353836 B). Has the GCF file been completely acquired?)"
And I get empty files. How can this be fixed?

I'm also having this same problem. trying to pull off some textures from source materials.gcf . Most of them are grayed out. Ive validated all of my downloads HL2 HL2dm EP1 and EP2. Plus have Ive ran all 4 of these. Closed steam, made no difference. Is there something else I need to do?

Well this is weird, GCFScape just stopped working. It was working fine a few days before. It would open up and defrag TF2 whenever I needed it too.

Now for some reason, it isn't working anymore and is crashing and launch, or at least when I try to launch it. The window just pops up sayin' "GCFscape has stopped working". Methinks it had something to do with Today's TF2 update.

Error writing C:\Documents and Settings\My name\Desktop\weapon_fx.pcf (Error (0x00000002): Error opening file. The system cannot find the file specified.)

what did I do wrong?

Also, when I try to validate anything, I get
+Validating root\particles\weapon_fx.pcf: Incomplete+ minus the +s. even when i validate the entire file. Help?

I have problem. GCFScape doesn't work anymore at all (crash on start). I worked before on this computer. Just to make sure I've reinstalled .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and VC++ 2008 Redist.

Is there a command-line front end for GCFscape? It would be nice for automatic extraction.

Yes, HLExtract.

Hey, im having a bit of a problem here. There is custom music in one of these minigame maps that i want, yet i cant get GCFScape to open it without saying "Error: Invalid File Version|The Files Signature Does Not Match"

Ive extracted music from maps before, but i dont understand why it doesnt work now? Please help?

Which map is this?

Hey, Nem, just thought I should point this out since I don't see any other posts mentioning it: The latest update for Portal 2 seems to make its .VPK files incompatible with the current version of GCFScape. Attempting to open pak01_dir.vpk just spits out an error: "Invalid file: The file map is not within mapping bounds." It opened just fine prior to the latest update.

Works fine for me, email me your pak01_dir.vpk if you want me to investigate.

AS mentioned in the HLLib comments, GCFScape 1.8.2 crashes when opening an AlienSwarm or Portal2 BSP.

Here is the Stack trace:

System.AccessViolationException: Es wurde versucht, im geschützten Speicher zu lesen oder zu schreiben. Dies ist häufig ein Hinweis darauf, dass anderer Speicher beschädigt ist.
bei HLLib.CPackage.GetRoot(CPackage* )
bei GCFScape.CGCFScape.PopulateTree()
bei GCFScape.CGCFScape.OpenPackage(String pFileName)
bei GCFScape.CGCFScape.btnOpen_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Thanks, will fix. Looks like Portal 2 BSPs no longer have an embedded ZIP archive.

It would appear GCFScape has stopped being able to open files from TF2 since the "Uber Update". It might just be me, but I thought I'd let you know, on the off chance that thousands of other people have yet to email you. :)

I'm not seeing any problems with it. What version are you on? What error message are you receiving?

I've been getting this error for TF2 in the content_2 gcf and a few other files in the other gcfs
Error: Requested view (4332890684, 8192) does not fit inside mapping, (0, 0).)
I've also been getting Invalid GCF version

I have no problems with Crafty or GCFScape.

Been having an issue similar to ssbmar above, when trying to use the shell execute function on any file within team fortress 2 content.gcf, I get an error message about being unable to write the file with this little bit: (Error: Requested view (3753907256, 8192) does not fit inside mapping, (0, 0).)
Also, the extract function will only extract a 0 byte file with the name of any file I try to extract, so I can't get any of the sound files out of TF2.

Thank you for these ass kicking tools!

Thanks for the great tool! I'm using it to help speed up the loading times with Portal 2, half-life2, and half-life2 with the gigantic (yet gorgeously awesome) Cinematic Mod 11.

I first use Ultimate Defrag to sort my games folder alphabetically and to put it on the outer edge of my hard drive's platters. I then use your program to optimize the .gcf files and to sort the files within the .gcf files alphabetically as well (lexicographically as you call it ;))

My next step will be to upgrade my SSD so it is large enough to fit all my games on it, then I don't have to think about I/O bottlenecks ever again!

One thing I should mention is that GFCScape doesn't want to defragment .vpk files of Portal 2. It finishes instantaneously.
Also I got unhandled exceptions with file 9.

Hi! Nice work on GCFScape!!
Just a suggestion: can you add a function to open files with 'enter'? besides double clicking
Oh and a bug: when I try to open some custom maps (TF2 BSP's) GCFScape hangs, without .NET or system warnings. The map I try to open is 1.22MB, so, it is something I did wrong? I can send it if you need the file

oh and this just popped right now while defragmenting 'sourcesdk.gcf':
just at 99%