Gta vc.set

The gta_vc.set file is a binary file that stores the game's configuration settings for Vice City. It is located in the User Files directory. The game automatically generates this file with default settings if it is missing. Each time a setting has been changed within the game menu, the file changes immediately.

Format

Oddly, any settings that begins with a value of 0x0A will be padded with the prefix 0x0D. This means that the settings file can vary in size. For example, if a screen resolution is 0x0A, then the game will prefix and save the value as 0x0D0A. Even with floating-point values which are in little-endian order, if it starts with 0x0A it will still be prefixed, e.g. 0x0AD7233B (0.0025 in little-endian order) will be prefixed and saved as 0x0D0AD7233B. This is most likely a programming quirk. On some text editing programs like Notepad, a carriage return character (0x0D) followed by a line feed character (0x0A) is required in a plain text file to view newlines in those programs. Notepad cannot view the settings file anyways so this prefixing is useless. An example of this not being a quirk is in Vice City's stats.txt/html files.

Type	Description
dword	Always 3
qword[44]	Primary controls (see below)
qword[44]	Secondary controls
qword[44]	Tertiary controls
qword[44]	Quaternary controls
char[20]	stuffmorestuffevenmo
char[20]	stuffmorestuffevenmo
char[4]	stuf
char[4]	stuf
char[1]	s
char[1]	s
char[1]	s
byte	unknown
float	Mouse sensitivity
byte	Invert mouse vertically (0 = on, 1 = off)
byte	Mouse controlled steering (0 = on, 1 = off)
byte	SFX volume (1 = lowest setting, 65 = highest setting, 49 = default setting)
byte	Music volume (1 = lowest setting, 65 = highest setting, 49 = default setting)
byte	MP3 volume boost (1 = lowest setting, 65 = highest setting, 0 = default setting)
byte	Radio station
byte	Speakers configuration (0 = 2 speakers, 1 = headphones, 2 = more than 2 speakers)
byte	Audio hardware
byte	Dynamic acoustic modeling (0 = off, 1 = on)
word	Brightness (6 = lowest setting, 384 = highest setting, 256 = default)
float	Draw distance (0.925 = lowest setting, 1.80 = highest setting, 1.20 = default setting)
byte	Subtitles (0 = off, 1 = on)
byte	Wide screen (0 = off, 1 = on)
byte	Frame limiter (0 = off, 1 = on)
byte	Screen resolution
char[256]	Skin name without file extension with null terminator (default skin = $$""\0)
byte	Controls (0 = standard, 1 = classic)
byte	Language (0 = English, 1 = French, 2 = German, 3 = Italian, 4 = Spanish, 5 = Japanese)
byte	HUD mode (0 = off, 1 = on)
byte	Radar mode (0 = map & blips, 1 = blips only, 2 = off)
byte	Map legend (0 = off, 1 = on)

Controls

This is a list of all controls in order of appearance in the settings file. The names are taken from the game menu.

• Fire
• Next weapon
• Previous weapon
• Forward (on foot)
• Backwards (on foot)
• Left
• Right
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Enter+exit
• Change camera
• Jump
• Sprint
• Look behind
• Crouch
• Action
• Forward (in car)
• Backwards (in car)
• Radio
• Horn
• Submission
• Handbrake
• Look left (on foot, classic)
• Look right (on foot, classic)
• Look left (in car)
• Look right (in car)
• ? (cannot configure)
• Look left+Turret L
• Look right+Turret R
• Turret + Lean Up
• Turret + Lean Down
• Next target (classic)
• Previous target (classic)
• Center camera (classic)
• Target
• T key (cannot configure, network talk?)
• Look Up (classic)
• Look Down (classic)

Each control is between 8 to 9 bytes in size depending on the prefixing of 0x0D to 0x0A. There are a total of four sections for primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary controls, and each section has a total of 44 possible controls, although there are only 38 contiguous controls listed above.

See also

• gta3.set
• gta_sa.set