Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SQM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SQM to another file type
To convert SQM Files to another format, you need Windows OS or other Data software.
Convert a file to SQM
To convert other file formats to the "System Telemetry and Game Data" file type, you need software like Windows OS or a similar tool.
About SQM files
The .SQM file extension primarily represents a Service Quality Monitoring (or Software Quality Metrics) data file created by Microsoft Windows. Alternatively, it is used as a Mission Scenario File by Bohemia Interactive for games like Arma 3 and Operation Flashpoint. Microsoft uses these files to collect telemetry, software usage, and crash data. They are generated automatically by the Windows SQM Client and are often found scattered on the root directory of a hard drive. For gamers, an .SQM file stores 3D terrain placements, objects, triggers, and waypoints for custom game missions. The main disadvantage of the .SQM format is that it is highly proprietary. Microsoft telemetry files are largely useless to average users, containing encoded diagnostic data meant only for internal Microsoft servers. Arma mission files are tied strictly to the game engine. Users cannot open them in standard software without specialized game editors. Because these formats are closed and undocumented, standard online converters completely fail to process them. There are very few reasons to convert a Microsoft .SQM file. However, Arma players frequently need to convert unbinarized .SQM files into TXT or XML to manually edit game variables outside the engine. This format is notoriously difficult to process because the data structure is dictated by the specific software version that created it. Our platform will inspect the internal hex data. If our analysis detects underlying text or supported embedded data, viewing or extracting information may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SQM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SQM file to SQF, SFT, EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP or MAP, you can use Windows OS or similar software from the "Telemetry Log or Game Mission" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to SQM, try Windows OS or another comparable tool in the "Telemetry Log or Game Mission" category.
The SQM 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 SQM converter.