YARGE

The explorer that never freezes

A RAGE game install is a tree of nested archives holding hundreds of thousands of entries. Existing tools can read it, but they tend to do that work on the interface thread, so the window locks up for seconds at a time on anything large.

The first release goal is narrow and deliberately unglamorous: mount an install, browse the entire virtual archive tree instantly, search it by name or hash, and preview or extract anything — with every long operation off the UI thread. Deep editors come later. A search that returns immediately, on an archive that normally stalls, is the whole demo.

Files that describe themselves

YARGE identifies files by the markup inside them rather than trusting the extension, which is what makes a tree of unknown blobs browsable in the first place. Anything it does not recognise can be taught to it from the File types form, so an unfamiliar format is a definition to fill in rather than a wall.

Viewing the world

Beyond the explorer, View world opens a first slice of the map: every archetype definition in the install read into a single table, every placement resolved against it, and the geometry near a free-flying camera streamed in and out under a memory budget.

It is honest about being early. The view is untextured, it draws only what the archetype table manages to resolve, and it states on screen how much of the install that actually represents rather than quietly showing you a partial world.

Your install, your keys

YARGE reads the keys it needs from your own game installation, at runtime. It ships no game assets, no keys, and no trade dress, and it is intended for single-player and Cfx.re-platform content.

Platforms

Windows and macOS.

Following along

Progress, screenshots, and eventually a beta go to the Discord. There is nothing to install yet.