settings are not stored

[indietrash]

hi,

when I start the game I can choose my preferred currency and what side of the road the cars drive on and whatever - but when I restart the game, it doesn't remember my settings. thus I have to set them all over again whenever I reset the game. is it meant to be like this? any help would be good.

(I am running the game in a GNU environment)

[Eddi]

make sure you have write permissions to openttd.cfg.

change a setting from the main menu, exit the game and restart it to confirm that settings can now be stored

[indietrash]

hi,

I don't actually have an openttd.cfg file. can I just make one? and should it be in ~/.openttd or somewhere in "/usr/share/games/openttd/"?

[Eddi]

if you do not have a config file, it should automatically be created in ~/.openttd the first time you quit.

there is probably debug output where it searches for the cfg, try "-d misc=3"

[indietrash]

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dbg: [misc] Scanning for tars
dbg: [misc] Scan complete, found 0 files
dbg: [misc] /home/alexander/.openttd/ found as personal directory
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count   4; #term  0 (0grp); #helipad  0 (0grp); entries   0,   1,   2,   3
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  22; #term  2 (1grp); #helipad  0 (0grp); entries  16,  16,  16,  16
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  30; #term  3 (1grp); #helipad  0 (0grp); entries  26,  29,  27,  28
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  27; #term  3 (1grp); #helipad  0 (0grp); entries  20,  20,  20,  20
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  51; #term  6 (2grp); #helipad  2 (1grp); entries  37,  37,  37,  37
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  77; #term  8 (2grp); #helipad  2 (1grp); entries  43,  43,  43,  43
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count   9; #term  0 (0grp); #helipad  1 (1grp); entries   7,   7,   7,   7
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count   9; #term  0 (0grp); #helipad  1 (1grp); entries   7,   7,   7,   7
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  37; #term  3 (1grp); #helipad  2 (1grp); entries  21,  21,  21,  21
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  18; #term  0 (0grp); #helipad  1 (1grp); entries   4,   4,   4,   4
dbg: [misc] [Ap] #count  33; #term  0 (0grp); #helipad  3 (1grp); entries  25,  25,  25,  25
dbg: [misc] Loading sound effects...
dbg: [misc] Loading blitter...

does this tell you anything? doesn't look like it makes any attempts to save or whatever.

[Eddi]

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dbg: [misc] /home/alexander/.openttd/ found as personal directory

this is the place where openttd tries to save the cfg

the cfg is written on exit, but apparently, it is never checked whether writing actually worked. if the file could not be created, check if that directory has write permissions

[indietrash]

owwwwwww. I created it as root by a mistake. I was symlinking the scenarios from /usr/share/games/openttd/scenarios to ~/.openttd - and I did it as root without realising. I chowned the folder now though so all is good. thanks heaps!