Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GAR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GAR to another file type
To convert GAR Archives to another format, you need GIANTS Editor or other Game software.
Convert a file to GAR
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive" file type, you need software like GIANTS Editor or a similar tool.
About GAR files
The .GAR file extension is most commonly used as a proprietary game data archive by GIANTS Software for the Farming Simulator series. It acts as a container for 3D models, textures, sounds, and scripts. Another significant use case is as a PAT (Portable Appliance Testing) results data file generated by electrical testing equipment from the Seaward Group. Finally, it can act as a Ghidra project archive or a Green Hills Software project archive (which is essentially a ZIP file). Because .GAR files serve wildly different purposes, dealing with them is frustrating. Game archives are proprietary and require specific modding tools like the GIANTS Editor to open. They are useless outside the game engine and cannot be viewed in standard software. Seaward PAT data files require expensive, proprietary software like PATGuard to read, trapping your safety compliance data behind a paywall or specific OS limitations. To make these files usable, you must extract or convert them. For game modding, extract the internal XML, DDS, and I3D files using a dedicated extractor. For PAT test results, convert the .GAR data to CSV for spreadsheet analysis or PDF for compliance archiving and easy sharing.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GAR file to NAR, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE or ARJ, you can use GIANTS Editor or similar software from the "Game Data & Test Results Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to GAR, try GIANTS Editor or another comparable tool in the "Game Data & Test Results Archive" category.
The GAR 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 GAR converter.