crx4life2003

Ive been to tons of forums and I dont have a clue. I realize this is a general forum but i need help. How in the world do you edit units in generals? I got final.big I opened big.ini or whatever and then extracted the files to my data folder. Then I opened weapon.ini for instance changed some numbers line 5.0 to 50.0 for damage and nothing happened. Can someone plz explain this.....i feel like such a dumbass