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Title: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: Joe le Kiffeur on March 08, 2009, 10:15:56 AM
Hi! :D

There is an annoying bug when I play with mods which reset my settings (keyboard and display configuration), or changing The OA version (ie: downgrading 0.8.1 to 0.7.7!)  :(

I think this is a directory problem when mods are changing my configuration.
Please correct this.

OS: Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS.


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: Neon_Knight on March 08, 2009, 10:32:01 AM
A solution would be to make an autoexec.cfg file @ baseoa with your settings. You should put here what you know you won't be changing. (Key bindings for example) That way settings will not be changed.


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: Joe le Kiffeur on March 08, 2009, 10:39:19 AM
And how to do that? What do I'll type?


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: Neon_Knight on March 08, 2009, 11:22:48 AM
First you must set your normal settings on the game itself, baseoa, then you exit from OA.
Check for the file q3config.cfg on baseoa or your user folder (I don't know which OS you use, but I guess in Win you'll find it on Documents & settings\<userfolder>\Application Data\OpenArena\baseoa; and in Linux, mostly on home\<userfolder>\.OpenArena\baseoa I guess)

Then you make on baseoa (I suggest you to do this on the game folder) a file which name is autoexec.cfg, there you'll be moving your key bindings and some settings you want to keep. There's a console commands & cvars guide at http://q3console.planetquake.gamespy.com for more info on which any cvar does.


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: fromhell on March 08, 2009, 01:00:46 PM
some mods annoyingly ship their own q3config.cfg. this will definitely throw oa off :(


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: mathieu on March 08, 2009, 04:46:59 PM
Joe, it seems you're french, so have a look at this link : http://openarena.tuxfamily.org/wiki/doc:config
You'll find some french documentation about config files.


Title: Re: Automodified settings are getting me mad!
Post by: Joe le Kiffeur on March 09, 2009, 05:12:38 PM
some mods annoyingly ship their own q3config.cfg. this will definitely throw oa off :(
OK.

Joe, it seems you're french, so have a look at this link : http://openarena.tuxfamily.org/wiki/doc:config
You'll find some french documentation about config files.
Merci. :) Je vais aller potasser tous ça. ;)