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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Exk on June 18, 2006, 02:24:47 am

Title: Settings not saved
Post by: Exk on June 18, 2006, 02:24:47 am

Hi, I'm just a newbie here. I've installed Tremulous a few days ago, I really like it but I have this little problem. Every time I open the game my settings are the default ones; I change them to my taste, play, close the game and then, when I open the game again they are all back to default ones.
I'm running Win2k.
BTW, I've seen some files where the configs are saves but they all say, 'do not modify', why is that? It would be nice to be able to change the config directly in the files.
Thanks for a great game.

Title: Settings not saved
Post by: CoD on June 18, 2006, 10:04:48 am

If you are talking about autogen.cfg you're right: this file is automatically generated by tremulous, but on my system (linux) seems to keep track of previous settings.

I'm a newbie like you, but I found the config fest (http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=865) post and this made me think.

It seems that if you put a file identical to autogen.cfg but named autoexec.cfg, this file will be executed when you start tremuolous.
I split my cfg file in many pieces, using "exec", like this:

autoxec.cfg

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exec generic.cfg
exec autogen.cfg
exec mouse.cfg
exec keypad.cfg
exec talk.cfg


and then I created generic.cfg (with generic bindings), mouse.cfg (with mouse bindings), keypad.cfg (with keypad and extended keypad bindings) and talk.cfg (with quick talk bindings)

... and it works  :)

Maybe this is not the answer you were looking for, but try to modify autogen.cfg and rename it autoexec.cfg (autogen will be restored automatically) and see what happens

Title: the same problem
Post by: kane77 on June 20, 2006, 12:03:38 pm

I have the same problem... Im on linux and somebody on irc told me that it's because of write priveledge so I set it to 666 (means r-w r-w r-w) but still the same... I want to save at least the graphics settings, because the way it starts (full quality) is just unbearable for my computer...

Title: Settings not saved
Post by: CoD on June 20, 2006, 04:07:27 pm

I'm on linux too.

Check priviledges of your ~/.tremulous/base/ folder
Try setting 777 for both the folder and the autogen.cfg file in it.

Let me know if this works, otherwise we could find a solution together.

Title: re
Post by: kane77 on June 23, 2006, 10:09:21 am

well I tried it but no success... it saves the other settings (eg NET or Gameplay, but not graphics settings)...
i set ~/.tremulous, ~/.tremulous/base and both files inside base/ to 777....

Title: Settings not saved
Post by: CoD on June 23, 2006, 11:40:27 am

Uhm... I can just think at one solution: try to modify manually the autogen.cfg and name it autoexec.cfg.
Then rename autogen.cfg as autogen.bak and start tremulous.

It should work.. it must work... I hope it works  :roll: