Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CPU file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CPU to another file type
To convert CPU Profiling files to another format, you need Go pprof or other Developer software.
Convert a file to CPU
To convert other file formats to the "Application Profiling Data" file type, you need software like Go pprof or a similar tool.
About CPU files
The .cpu file extension serves multiple distinct purposes. The most common uses are CPU profiling data generated by the Go programming language, game data files for Rush Rally 3, and machine definition files for the educational CPU Sim software. Opening these files requires specific software. Go profiles use the pprof tool, CPU Sim files require the Java-based CPU Sim application, and game files are read directly by the game engine. The primary disadvantage of a .cpu file is its extreme ambiguity. If it is a Go profile, it is actually a GZIP compressed file containing binary protocol buffer data that only pprof can visualize. If it is a CPU Sim file, it is plain XML, which is readable but highly specific. If it is game data, it is a closed, proprietary format that lacks official documentation. Converting a .cpu file depends entirely on its internal type. You might convert a CPU Sim XML file to standard .TXT. Go profiles are usually converted to .PDF, .SVG, or .HTML via the command-line tool for visualization. You cannot convert the game data variants to standard media formats. Standard online converters fail to process .cpu files because they rely on simple extension matching and do not inspect the binary header. Because this file format is difficult to open or convert, often only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like XML or GZIP, viewing or conversion may still be possible. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CPU file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CPU file to GPU, SERVER, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use Go pprof or similar software from the "Application Profiling & Game Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to CPU, try Go pprof or another comparable tool in the "Application Profiling & Game Data" category.
The CPU Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CPU converter.