why do my settings on gzdoom reset

[The BMFG]

sometimes my settings on gzdoom keep resetting please tell me why i hate having to fucking reset my settings every now and then

 

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Need more info, but this is likely to do with not having write permission. What's your file hierarchy?

Edited November 10, 2020 by TheMagicMushroomMan

[drfrag]

Where the fuck is your ini located?

[The BMFG]

now its just not working at all

 

[Hitboi]

49 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

now its just not working at all

Did you remove/move your ini?

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Nobody can help you unless you provide more info. Mainly your file hierarchy and your .ini location. Try moving GzDoom to another location. Like I said, it's probably got to do with write permissions.

[The BMFG]

sometimes when i load up a wad or pk3 and it dosent work it will reset my settings

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

1 minute ago, The BMFG said:

sometimes when i load up a wad or pk3 and it dosent work it will reset my settings

WHERE IS YOUR .INI LOCATED? WHAT IS YOUR FILE HIERARCHY?

[Hitboi]

Do you even understand other members' feedback?

[Clippy]

Have you tried not letting it get reset?

[Hitboi]

1 minute ago, Clippy said:

Have you tried not letting it get reset?

Perfect answer!

[Redneckerz]

New users never gonna learn, is it.

 

OP, provide a screenshot of the map with your .ini file located. 

 

Else, do not bother asking for feedback and a solution if you don't want to help us into helping you.

[P41R47]

Hey, guys!
Easy on the noob, please.

We all started as PC noobs without any understanding of what people say at us.
When we were 4 or 5 maybe, some still when they had 20 or more.
Me, even to these days sometimes :P

@The BMFG first of all, if you can, take a screenshot of your GZDoom folder.
That would help us helping you.
And don't panic when something happends.

Maybe its an stupid question, but did you extracted GZDoom from the .zip?
If you didn't extract all the files inside the zip onto a new folder, it will not work properly.

Edited November 11, 2020 by P41R47

[The BMFG]

1 minute ago, P41R47 said:

Hey, guys!
Easy on the noob, please.

We all started as PC noobs without any understanding of what people say at us.
When we were 4 or 5 maybe, some still when they had 20 or more.
Me, even to these days sometimes :P

@The BMFG first of all, if you can, take a screenshot of your GZDoom folder.
That would help us helping you.
And don't panic when something happends.

Maybe its an stupid question, but did you extracted GZDoom from the .zip?
If you didn't extract all the files inside the zip onto a new folder, it will not work properly.

yes i have i have a folder with tons of working mods and wads and gzdoom itself im still figuring out how to take a screenshot

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

3 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

yes i have i have a folder with tons of working mods and wads and gzdoom itself im still figuring out how to take a screenshot

Try moving your GzDoom folder to C:\

 

Check your files to see if they are marked as read-only

 

And yes, post screenshots of whatever you can.

[P41R47]

6 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

yes i have i have a folder with tons of working mods and wads and gzdoom itself im still figuring out how to take a screenshot

There should be a button up where the arrow keys are, next to the Fxx keys in the row.
One of them should say something like PRT SC.

Press it with the folder of GZDoom open.

Then boot up paint and pres CTRL+V, it will paste the screenshot on it.
Save it somewhere easy to find, and then upload it by just drag and droping on the comment section here.

Edited November 11, 2020 by P41R47

[The BMFG]

yes they are in c since i dont know how to post screenshots i will just say i searched up for .ini in my gzdoom folder and it came up with gzdoom-wessa is that the ini?

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

2 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

yes they are in c since i dont know how to post screenshots i will just say i searched up for .ini in my gzdoom folder and it came up with gzdoom-wessa is that the ini?

They are at the ROOT of C:\?

 

And yes, that is the .ini

 

Is it marked as read-only?

[P41R47]

2 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

yes they are in c since i dont know how to post screenshots i will just say i searched up for .ini in my gzdoom folder and it came up with gzdoom-wessa is that the ini?

Up of this post there is a explanation of how to take screenshots.

 

Also, @Redneckerz or @TheMagicMushroomMan, if you can, please point him on how to be able to see the file extension.
I don't remember where the fuck is that option :/

[The BMFG]

5 minutes ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

They are at the ROOT of C:\?

 

And yes, that is the .ini

 

Is it marked as read-only?

well i can read it its just a bunch of lines of code 

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Just now, The BMFG said:

well i can read it its just a bunch of lines of code 

Right click on the .ini

 

Click "Properties"

 

Under the "General" tab, see if "read-only" is checked.

[The BMFG]

no its not read only

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Just now, The BMFG said:

no its not read only

Great, now go to the "Security" tab and see if it has write permissions.

[The BMFG]

yes it does

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

3 minutes ago, The BMFG said:

yes it does

If that's the case, we are still going to need more info to be able to help you. Taking screenshots isn't that hard, @P41R47 gave fine instructions.

[Robot J]

Something like that happened to me when my pc started up and said the "press any key to stop C: drive repair in 10 seconds (or whatever it says)" because my pc didn't shut down normally. I just pressed my space bar but everything on my pc got factory reset you could say except a few things like steam

Edited November 11, 2020 by Robot J

[Satanos]

Literally made an account just to add this: your settings seem to be tied to save files in gzdoom. For example, if you change your settings on savefile A, but then load back to save file B, save B will be set back to your original settings. I think the only way to have a permanent settings is to set them in the main menu before loading a save (old saves will still use the old settings though).

 

Before anyone asks, yes, the ini file is not set to read only in properties and has write permissions.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Satanos

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

1 hour ago, Satanos said:

Literally made an account just to add this: your settings seem to be tied to save files in gzdoom. For example, if you change your settings on savefile A, but then load back to save file B, save B will be set back to your original settings. I think the only way to have a permanent settings is to set them in the main menu before loading a save (old saves will still use the old settings though).

 

Before anyone asks, yes, the ini file is not set to read only in properties and has write permissions.

This is incorrect, settings in GzDoom are preserved even when switching to a save with different settings than the one you are using, I just tested this to make sure. If your settings are getting changed every time you load a save where you had different settings, you have something else wrong.

 

To quote the Zdoom forums:

 

"Gameplay settings are stored in dmflags and dmflags2 console variables. These CVARs are not saved to .ini file.
In order to preserve gameplay settings, you need to enable desired options, check values of the mentioned CVARs, and save them to autoexec.cfg file."

Edited November 11, 2020 by TheMagicMushroomMan

[Redneckerz]

5 hours ago, P41R47 said:

Hey, guys!
Easy on the noob, please.

We all started as PC noobs without any understanding of what people say at us.

@The BMFG

That's why it is imperative that you listen and read carefully what is said versus making sub threads with the same issue.

 

Ideally you just use Teamviewer to see whatever the user is doing.

5 hours ago, P41R47 said:

Up of this post there is a explanation of how to take screenshots.

 

Also, @Redneckerz or @TheMagicMushroomMan, if you can, please point him on how to be able to see the file extension.
I don't remember where the fuck is that option :/

Follow this here.

[Satanos]

12 hours ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

This is incorrect, settings in GzDoom are preserved even when switching to a save with different settings than the one you are using, I just tested this to make sure. If your settings are getting changed every time you load a save where you had different settings, you have something else wrong.

 

To quote the Zdoom forums:

 

"Gameplay settings are stored in dmflags and dmflags2 console variables. These CVARs are not saved to .ini file.
In order to preserve gameplay settings, you need to enable desired options, check values of the mentioned CVARs, and save them to autoexec.cfg file."

What autoexec.cfg file? No version of gzdoom I can download comes with that. (unless you're supposed to just make your own autoexec.cfg file)

 

Edit: You mean the gz-doom(yourname).cfg?

Edited November 11, 2020 by Satanos