Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GXT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GXT to another file type
To convert GXT text files to another format, you need GXT Editor or other Game software.
Convert a file to GXT
To convert other file formats to the "Game Localization Text File" file type, you need software like GXT Editor or a similar tool.
About GXT files
The .GXT file stores localized text strings for the Grand Theft Auto series and other games developed by Rockstar Games. These files contain the text for game menus, subtitles, missions, and UI elements. The architecture maps 8-byte hash keys to specific text strings, allowing the game engine to render the correct language on the fly. Less commonly, .GXT files are used by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for satellite antenna gain patterns, or as PlayStation Vita texture files. The format is heavily proprietary and compiled into a binary structure. You cannot open a .GXT file in a standard text editor like Notepad++ because the text is stored in an unreadable binary format, and older GTA games use custom character encoding tables rather than standard UTF-8. Modders and translators face severe limitations without specialized, often outdated, community-built tools. To edit or translate the game text, you must convert the .GXT file. For translation and editing, convert to CSV or XML. For basic reading, convert to TXT. Once edited, these standard files must be compiled back into .GXT for the game engine to read.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GXT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GXT file to KML, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use GXT Editor or similar software from the "Game Text Localization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to GXT, try GXT Editor or another comparable tool in the "Game Text Localization" category.
The GXT 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 GXT converter.