Config settings suddenly missing
Posted: 25 Feb 2019, 06:14
I've been playing openmw for a while now without issue, but a few minutes ago something bizarre happened and I don't know why or how to fix it.
It seems that somehow, about 20 minutes ago, my settings.cfg file was altered. All I did was close the game and reboot, and suddenly all my settings were reset. My draw distance was back to vanilla settings, my resolution was off, and my menu windows were set to default sizes.
When I checked the settings config not only was everything reset but the majority of it was missing altogether. There's nothing for view distance, cells, or anything. This is literally the extent of my current config file (note that I changed my resolution back to normal and tweaked a few things in the past few minutes):
[Video]
fullscreen = true
resolution x = 1920
resolution y = 1080
[Game]
prevent merchant equipping = true
show effect duration = true
show enchant chance = true
show melee info = true
show projectile damage = true
[Saves]
character = Qorwynn - 1
[Windows]
inventory h = 0.528704
inventory w = 0.45
inventory x = 0
inventory y = 0.475
map h = 0.491667
map w = 0.551042
map x = 0.448438
map y = 0
spells h = 0.297222
spells w = 0.359896
spells x = 0.600521
spells y = 0.678704
stats h = 0.476852
stats w = 0.45
stats x = -0.0015625
stats y = -0.0037037
Am I just going insane? I could've sworn there were way more settings than this. Do I just add them back manually? What even happened here? Note that I didn't touch the config file at all before it reset. I was just playing the game normally, shut it down, then turned it back on. Any ideas?
It seems that somehow, about 20 minutes ago, my settings.cfg file was altered. All I did was close the game and reboot, and suddenly all my settings were reset. My draw distance was back to vanilla settings, my resolution was off, and my menu windows were set to default sizes.
When I checked the settings config not only was everything reset but the majority of it was missing altogether. There's nothing for view distance, cells, or anything. This is literally the extent of my current config file (note that I changed my resolution back to normal and tweaked a few things in the past few minutes):
[Video]
fullscreen = true
resolution x = 1920
resolution y = 1080
[Game]
prevent merchant equipping = true
show effect duration = true
show enchant chance = true
show melee info = true
show projectile damage = true
[Saves]
character = Qorwynn - 1
[Windows]
inventory h = 0.528704
inventory w = 0.45
inventory x = 0
inventory y = 0.475
map h = 0.491667
map w = 0.551042
map x = 0.448438
map y = 0
spells h = 0.297222
spells w = 0.359896
spells x = 0.600521
spells y = 0.678704
stats h = 0.476852
stats w = 0.45
stats x = -0.0015625
stats y = -0.0037037
Am I just going insane? I could've sworn there were way more settings than this. Do I just add them back manually? What even happened here? Note that I didn't touch the config file at all before it reset. I was just playing the game normally, shut it down, then turned it back on. Any ideas?