WolfET problems

Post by **I cant spell u** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:31 am

SO I just installed the game about an hour ago, it's fun, but one annoying problem. Everytime I boot it up it always reverts to the default settings, I've tried an autoexec, and I've manually edited the cfg and still nothing. Always setting back to defaults, how can I stop this?

Thank you.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:32 am

Set the config to read only.

Post by **I cant spell u** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:45 am

SOAPboy wrote:Set the config to read only.

That won't really fix it, unless you mean by edit it manually, then read-only.

oh by the way, the cfg doesn't change at all. I have no clue :[
it's set to what I want, but doesn't load

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:55 am

I cant spell u wrote:
SOAPboy wrote:Set the config to read only.
That won't really fix it, unless you mean by edit it manually, then read-only.

oh by the way, the cfg doesn't change at all. I have no clue :[
it's set to what I want, but doesn't load

Yes, that's what he means. Seems like it may be loading an alternate cfg file. Do you have any others in there somewhere?

Post by **I cant spell u** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:58 am

Just these

Post by **Tsakali_** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:35 am

maybe the latest download version comes with mod already in it? could you be running a mod? look for other folders in the directory

Post by **I cant spell u** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:53 am

Tsakali_ wrote:maybe the latest download version comes with mod already in it? could you be running a mod? look for other folders in the directory

I've tried that as well, but since it's the game in general, I don't think that'd be it

Post by **day** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:32 am

Please note that the etconfig in etmain (or any mod dir) isn't normally used for etconfig.cfg. Your actual player configuration file is stored as <moddir>/profiles/<profilename>/etconfig.cfg. autoexec.cfg and default.cfg still live in etmain (or a mod's base dir) and function normally though.

You are running ET version 2.60, right? Older versions, such as 2.56, had a neat bug with profile.pid files and mods that would cause ET to incorrectly detect crashes and overwrite your config. You can easily check the version as you might do in quake -- pull down the console.

Assuming you're on version 2.60, you will probably want to move your configuration to a separate file anyway. You can write it by hand or use /writeconfig <name> to dump your settings from in-game. Once you've got that file, you can exec it from autoexec.cfg in etmain or your mod(s) of choice. If you still can't get ET to load with your settings, you can try wiping out your real etconfig.cfg (in your profile) for your mods and replacing it with your hand config.

* edited my poor wording in first paragraph

Post by **megami** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:43 am

I had this very same problem when I installed ET a year or so ago, never figured out how to fix it.