Forged Alliance Forever

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T16:44:10+02:00

We are working at the moment on a fix for that;
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/1449

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 30 Aug 2016, 16:44

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T13:44:47+02:00

yeah, uveso there is.
I just ran a git diff between the files ( my current game.prefs and the old one) and found this line:

Code:: Quality = -1.#IND,

i guess it is this issue https://github.com/FAForever/fa/issues/1418 that broke my game.prefs

I think i did some games sandboxing/vs AI testing some stuff.

@JoonasTo
If you have this line as well in your game.prefs.bad you can maybe recover it if you delete that line.

Statistics: Posted by yorick — 30 Aug 2016, 13:44

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T11:39:58+02:00

I run fullscreen on lowest graphics, without external scripts.
Fully customised hotkeys as mentioned.

And the mods in common with Yorick are:
Selection Sort
UI party(hotkeys)
Notify
Common mod tools

@Uveso:

JoonasTo wrote:
There was also a game.prefs.bad file in the folder(not my old game.prefs file, but another similar default config one.)

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 30 Aug 2016, 11:39

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T03:17:33+02:00

@yorick:
was there or is there a "Game.prefs.bad" ?

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 30 Aug 2016, 03:17

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T01:52:44+02:00

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12979&p=133460
I lost my game.prefs 2-3 times last month or so. No idea where exactly the incompability lies and if it was cause by this patch / smth that was in the beta earlier. I was able to recover some tendious settings by just copying them by hand, like hotkeys etc.
Dunno if this helps, here are some of the settigns and ui mods i use:

Spoiler: show

Statistics: Posted by yorick — 30 Aug 2016, 01:52

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-30T01:17:58+02:00

Maybe its not lost, only renamed.
go to:

Code:: C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\

look for a file named:

Game.prefs.bad

if its there, delete the new "Game.prefs" then rename "game.prefs.bad" to "game.prefs".

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 30 Aug 2016, 01:17

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-29T23:07:09+02:00

I was online in FAF when the patch hit. Joined a game, it updated, left that game lobby before starting, hosted a game, all was fine. Finished the game, hosted the next one and could instantly see something was wrong, as it loaded the lobby in 1024x800. Restarted FAF, hosted a game, same thing. Then I checked the game.prefs file and saw that it had been rewritten to some kind of default configuration. There was also a game.prefs.bad file in the folder(not my old game.prefs file, but another similar default config one.)

Copied one over from my laptop that wasn't outdated(too badly.) And after some frustation and a couple of more overwrites later I set it to read-only. Then it generated a game.prefs.new file that I used as a base and copied all of my setting, mods, templates and hotkeys into before renaming it to game.prefs, without read-only. Now it works again.

I can see this as a gamebreaking issue. Losing my hotkeys(all of them custom, even the control groups) would have probably deterred me from playing the game at all.

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 29 Aug 2016, 23:07

Re: New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-29T22:35:43+02:00

I'm sorry to hear this, though I have no idea what could have caused it. I'll ask around, see if there's any ideas.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 29 Aug 2016, 22:35

New update deleted my game.prefs

2016-08-29T20:32:49+02:00

First host of 3658 rewrote my game.prefs. POOF! All gone.

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 29 Aug 2016, 20:32