My partner has been going on and on about how amazing DX HR is and I finally decided to give it a try (No judgement! I was away from gaming world for a few years due to studies and have missed some awesome games that came out during that period); however, I have this particular trait that I want to have access to the console. I've tried the mods I found and gog gives an error that the gibbed version is not compatible with the game version (gibbed version is 2.2 and my game version is 2.0 but I have tried other older versions of the mod that I could find none of them worked). Moreover the user.ini file comes up as gibberish when I open it so there goes all the methods that require changing this file (unless there is a way to make it ungibberish? I have tried opening it using different platforms, nah no good!)

And finally there is a solution that is listed as adding a code to the executable! now this one I have never done before and I couldn't find a comprehensive step by step guide to what executable are and how to add this code (and more importantly how does this unlock the console??!)

Update:
I have tried the solutions from a similar post on the forum, got the original DFEngine.dll (from here: github.com/gibbed/DXHRDC-ModHook/releases/tag/v1.1.0.0) plus the 000 files then added all the updates from a newer gibbed mod version (from here: github.com/gibbed/DXHRDC-ModHook), copy pasted everything into the game directory folder, guess what? still not wokring!
What am I doing wrong?
Please see the attachment. I have all the essential files there.

This is two years later, but can't find any real info on this. I wanted to access cheats as I've played this game through several times on Playstation and wanted to go for New Game+ kind of experience on PC. There's no user.ini, can't access console. Anyone have any ideas?

Thus is 3 years later with no solution. You cannot modify the DFEngine.dll with the GOG version of the game. Can't tell is the mod authors need to address this or GOG themselves.

I found a modified DFEngine.dll that enable all mods and functions with the GOG version.

https: //community. pcgamingwiki .com/ files /file /2372-dxhrdc-modhook-no-check/