Justine overwrote user_settings.cfg

[Cranky Old Man]

You spend 15 minutes setting up a good dev environment, and then you just start up Justine to check something out, and it overwrites it (and user_keys.cfg) back to the default values.
Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Those files we're in the My Documents\Amnesia\Main\ folder! Why can't Justine just use a My Documents\Amnesia\Ptest\ folder?

[Statyk]

why not just use the main game's settings?

[Your Computer]

(04-15-2012 11:51 PM)Cranky Old Man Wrote:  Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Sure: Don't pick your development profile when launching Justine.

[Cranky Old Man]

(04-16-2012 12:59 AM)Statyk Wrote:  why not just use the main game's settings?

Justine overwrote main_settings.cfg too, and if you didn't know, you need user_setting.cfg to set additional variables inside your player account. I can circumvent it through having backup files ready, but that shouldn't be necessary if I could somehow set some config vars for Justine.

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(04-16-2012 01:08 AM)Your Computer Wrote:  Sure: Don't pick your development profile when launching Justine.

I guess Justine overwrites the config on purpose, doesn't it? ...to prevent you from cheating with things like quicksaving.

[Your Computer]

(04-16-2012 01:12 AM)Cranky Old Man Wrote:  I guess Justine overwrites the config on purpose, doesn't it? ...to prevent you from cheating with things like quicksaving.

I believe the inability to save your progress is built into Justine. If you look at the configuration files for Justine, you'll see that it actually uses TDD's default_user_settings.cfg which allows the user to save their progress. Yet, in Justine you cannot save your progress.

[Homicide13]

I keep two backup cfgs in my Amnesia folder - one for playing Amnesia normally and one for a dev environment.

I duno, I just copy and paste whenever I need to, it's fast and effective. But even if you need to reset everything, is it really that hard to just open the 3 files necessary and scan through them for things you want to change? I just did it in about a minute and a half. o.o

[Cranky Old Man]

(04-16-2012 06:41 AM)Homicide13 Wrote:  I keep two backup cfgs in my Amnesia folder - one for playing Amnesia normally and one for a dev environment.

I duno, I just copy and paste whenever I need to, it's fast and effective. But even if you need to reset everything, is it really that hard to just open the 3 files necessary and scan through them for things you want to change? I just did it in about a minute and a half. o.o

If you know for certain exactly which settings to change, then you can technically do it in a minute and a half, but I want to make darn sure that I have the ideal setup, so I read at least two tutorials about it before even trying. Settings are something that can bite you in the ass a long time after you've forgotten about them, in unpredictable ways, so I want to make sure that they're set absolutely right.

[Dutton]

(04-16-2012 11:26 AM)Cranky Old Man Wrote:  If you know for certain exactly which settings to change, then you can technically do it in a minute and a half, but I want to make darn sure that I have the ideal setup, so I read at least two tutorials about it before even trying. Settings are something that can bite you in the ass a long time after you've forgotten about them, in unpredictable ways, so I want to make sure that they're set absolutely right.

So true. My brother was messing around with his settings a few days ago. He just started messing around with mapping and stuff, and he liked the quicksave ability. Then suddently the game woudln't start.... took me hours to figure out that all i had to do was delete the main_settings.cfg file and the problem was solved