Replacing a file in a GCF ?

[hahahafr]

Hi folks,
I'm currently looking how to replace a file within the winui.gcf and it's hard to find something about this topic on the internet. I actually wanna replace the

\Servers\theserverbrowser_french.txt

file in this GCF. The ****ing official french translation of Steam use words that are really too loooong to fill correctly the allocated space in Steam buttons. You only can see an half of the words, the other half is hiding 3 meters away, that's my problem. By the way, I'm not alone to do with this, at this time 164930 steam account are in my case.

So I've read that if your GCF file is located for example in

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\winui.gcf

and if you want to replace a file in this GCF you only have to create new path with subdirectories that were in the GCF. So, for my file it was

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\Servers\serverbrowser_french.txt

because in the winui.gcf my file was located in

\Servers\serverbrowser_french.txt.

Did I something wrong ? This method don't for me, with the winui.gcf.

Any idea of what's going wrong ?

 

[tschumann]

I have and idea of what may be wrong. nothing is getting overwritten because steam looks for things to overwrite with in your user folder. also, you probably need a folder called winui so steam know what file you're trying to overwrite.
try putting your file in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\<user>\winui\Servers\serverbrowser_french.txt

 

[hahahafr]

Thanks for your answer.
I tried your idea but it doesn't work.
Maybe I can do another thing to solve my problem, without replacing files in the winui.gcf ? Any idea ?

 

[hahahafr]

Finally !

I finally got to do what I wanted. 8)
With an hex editor I manually (!!) replaced the original file inside the GCF with the one I corrected and arranged.
For now it works perfectly, as I expected !
The strange things in this story is that Steam seems to totally accept my winui.gcf, even after I seriously modified a lot of bits.
For me it's a good opportunity, I can complete the ****ing bad work of the translation team (like ever with software), but it could be a new flaw or something else new.
I just hope the part I edited in this GCF won't be updated and replaced soon.

 

[tschumann]

steam would only check the size of the file/size of files inside the file, not the contents so that's why you can get away with it.

 

[hahahafr]

steam would only check the size of the file/size of files inside the file, not the contents so that's why you can get away with it.

Yes, I think so.

 

[spunge]

cough cough or you put the file in steam directory and set to read only...

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Also, just so you know...Valve are always trying to improve their translations of Steam and are always looking for translators. Although French is supported if it's badly done and you feel you could make significant improvements I believe there is a section of the steampowered.com website where you can contact them regarding this. You may be able to put your work to actual use with Valve.

 

[Crispy]

Valve outsource for their translations. I've not ever heard anyone complain about the games themselves but I have heard complaints about the Spanish and now French translations of Steam being downright poor.

To have text bleeds like that on buttons is pretty poor work, and obviously a symptom of the translation work not being done hand in hand with the testing of the site. It's really common in localisation of menus to have text bleeds during development, but these bugs should never reach the public domain, they're the most common and obvious bugs to spot.