Having an issue with Zandronum

[jp615]

I've already posted this to Zandronum's forum too but I also wanted to try this here.  Zandronum is not saving my config.  So I've already read posts detailing not to put Zandronum in protected system files like /program files.  My files are not located there.  They are located in My Documents.  I've also tried moving the folder to the base of my C drive, as in C:/zandronum, and I get the same error no matter what.  To clarify my setup and my issues, I'm on Windows 7 64bit, and I'm installing a the portable Zandronum installation.  I've tried with Zandronum 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.1.  I've tried running the .exe solo, I've tried running it from within ZDL, and also through DoomSeeker.  In every scenario, it starts up normally and I first go to configure the settings.  I close out and reopen to verify the settings are being saved, and they are not.  An .ini file is being created in the Zandronum folder, but no settings are being saved at all.  This is very frustrating and I've been struggling with this for much too long.  Please help.  I've spent weeks trying to figure out how to do co-op and just as I've pretty much figured everything out, I get stuck with this major hangup.  And another detail, I recently moved my Doom folder (where I keep all my files like Project Brutality, Zandronum, etc.) from a separate internal HDD to my main drive (which is an SSD).  I did this because I read that it could improve performance of GZDoom/Project Brutality and it did.  But I did a few tests with Zandronum while my Doom folder was on that separate drive, and I didn't have these issues that I'm having now with the config not being saved.  And I'm using the damn portable installation and as far as I know, there are no other folders where anything related to Zandronum is stored, plus I've deleted the Zandronum folder several times, trying different versions, trying different locations on the C drive, and nothing is working.  And the .ini is being created every time, but it never actually saves my changes.  Please help.  Thanks.

[Edward850]

Which settings are you trying to change, exactly? If an ini is being written, then obviously something is being recorded, so I think what you're trying to change is more important here.

[jp615]

Video resolution, fullscreen, disabling mouse input, enabling gamepad input, display settings.  I mean it doesn't matter.  No matter what I change, it doesn't save. 

[Shepardus]

If you manually change configs in the file (i.e. open the ini file in Notepad, make some changes, and save it), do those configs get read into the game, and does Zandronum overwrite those changes after quitting?

[kalensar]

Yeah, I actually know what you're talking about because I had the same issue with it saving my Xbox controller config.

 

Basically if you close by the X button in the window then it will not save a config of any type, and if you close the game from Main Menu then it should save it properly.

 

This was also true ZDoom 2.8 as well. LZDoom and GZDoom does not have this type of issue. 

Edited May 24 by kalensar

[jp615]

3 hours ago, kalensar said:

Basically if you close by the X button in the window then it will not save a config of any type, and if you close the game from Main Menu then it should save it properly.

I've been closing the game from the in-game menu the whole time.

 

3 hours ago, Shepardus said:

If you manually change configs in the file (i.e. open the ini file in Notepad, make some changes, and save it), do those configs get read into the game, and does Zandronum overwrite those changes after quitting?

If I change settings by opening the .ini itself, the changes do save and present as such in-game.  But if I make changes to settings from within the game, those changes still do not get saved to the .ini.  So the changes I made by manually editing the .ini persist, if that's what you're asking.