Restart 'forgets' settings

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:35 pm

Minor niggle... when I quit out of FoG, it forgets that I have ticked the 'Don't show this again' box, and I have to go through the whole process again. It also doesn't remember my multiplayer password.

Cheers,

Keyth

JMass · Post by **JMass** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:09 am

keyth wrote:Minor niggle... when I quit out of FoG, it forgets that I have ticked the 'Don't show this again' box, and I have to go through the whole process again. It also doesn't remember my multiplayer password.

I resolved by editing with Notepad the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Applications Data\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory\engine-prefs.ini, replacing some "0" with "1" and setting it as read-only, I must write the password every time but the annoying 'Don't show this again' is disappeared.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:18 am

Someone else had this issue - it is related to the game failing to write out the settings file properly. We're still not sure why it only occurs on some peoples machines but we're looking in to it.

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:33 am

Cool - thanks for the information!

Cheers,

Keyth

JMass · Post by **JMass** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:15 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Someone else had this issue - it is related to the game failing to write out the settings file properly. We're still not sure why it only occurs on some peoples machines but we're looking in to it.

It happens to me because I login on my XP machine as Power User, if I login as Administrator I have no problem.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:54 pm

JMass wrote:
iainmcneil wrote:Someone else had this issue - it is related to the game failing to write out the settings file properly. We're still not sure why it only occurs on some peoples machines but we're looking in to it.
It happens to me because I login on my XP machine as Power User, if I login as Administrator I have no problem.

How did you install the game, as a Power User or as an administrator? Also, did you install it to be available for everyone or just for the specific user? (I think you need to be logged in as an administrator to do the latter. If there's a mismatch between the installation account and the one you normally use when logged in, that might be the source of the issue. (I installed and run with an account with Administrator privilege in Vista and haven't had any problems. Not the best way to do it from a security point of view but I tend to be lazy.)

Chris

Morbio · Post by **Morbio** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:11 am

I'm probably the other person that had, and still has, this problem

I'm running XP, installed with admin rights and sign on with Admin rights.

I still get all the help pop-ups too.

If I tick the boxes and close them then it remembers while the game is running, but when I close and re-launch the game it's back to newbie mode again

chaedwards · Post by **chaedwards** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:04 pm

I also get this error. Using Windows 7, installed and log in as administrator

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:14 am

We're looking into this issue, so don't feel it's been forgotten

Cheers

Pip

chaedwards · Post by **chaedwards** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:52 pm

I don't know if this helps, but the issue seems to have started for me when I started playing multiplayer with the same account on both my home pc and my work laptop.

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:09 pm

Any more news on this issue?

Cheers,

Keyth

chaedwards · Post by **chaedwards** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:01 pm

Still no news on this?

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:17 pm

Still ongoing. I appreciate it's a pain but sometimes it takes a while for things to get sorted through and then released. We also need to remain backward compatible so we don't force everyone to redo all their settings

Cheers

Pip

Morbio · Post by **Morbio** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:06 pm

Oh, I've just realised, I may not be XP (in its purest sense)... I'm XP Media Centre - I wonder if that makes a difference?

chaedwards · Post by **chaedwards** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:19 am

As no news from Slitherine, I decided to start fiddling about myself. Turns out that for me, if 'remember password' for Multiplayer is turned off, then it remembers everything else. Strange eh?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:39 am

Are you sure its not just working everywhere? Can you explain exactly what you see when it doesn't work and when it does. It is certainly weird if unchecking that has any effect...

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:47 am

During Beta it occasionally saved my preferences but it was extremely intermittent. Now it is back to changing them every time. It is very frustrating, especially the first turn of the first battle to have the info screens pop up.

Morbio · Post by **Morbio** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:53 am

This is still an issue for me

chaedwards · Post by **chaedwards** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:13 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Are you sure its not just working everywhere? Can you explain exactly what you see when it doesn't work and when it does. It is certainly weird if unchecking that has any effect...

Having unticked 'remember password', the game then remembers my other settings when I quit - it doesn't continually flash up the tutorial messages. When I ticked 'remember password' again and then quit, it promptly forgot everything and started showing the tutorial messages again, as well as forgetting to eg show unit losses as a percentage.

Hope that helps.

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:41 pm

Since I stopped ticking 'remember password' for Multiplayer, everything else now gets remembered.

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