P3D V4 Keeps "Forgetting" its Settings...

[garydpoole 183]

Hello All

Just recently moved over to P3D V4 from FSX SE and I must confess that I'm not finding the transition particularly easy !

I've currently got two really annoying problems:

Firstly, P3D just will not remember my in-game settings, eg, graphics, AI traffic density, information, labels, frame rate, etc. Every time I go back into the simulator, all of my settings have returned back to their defaults and I find myself going through the whole process again !

Secondly, I cannot get rid of screen tearing. I have vsync On (have tried both in-game and NI), fps set to 30 and triple buffering on, but it will not go. In fact, I can't actually get P3D to run with the NI settings For example, if I set NI to 30fps and P3D to unlimited, P3D still runs at unlimited ?

I'm currently still running FSX SE and have absolutely no graphics issues with that at all.

Any help would be much appreciated !

Regards

Gary

[Drumcode 1,893]

Apparently the profile saves are a known issue and are being looked at by LM.

[Gridley 257]

Thanks for posting - I couldn't find anything so I thought it was just me!  For me, it's pretty much just the max texture load that keeps resetting back to high...

[David Mills 4,754]

I'm happy that you mentioned your issue with not being able to save profile settings. I'm suffering the identical problem. I save my settings under a specific graphics profile, but P3D will change the settings to something else. When I reload my profile settings, they are different from the ones I saved.

[garydpoole 183]

7 hours ago, David Mills said:

I'm happy that you mentioned your issue with not being able to save profile settings. I'm suffering the identical problem. I save my settings under a specific graphics profile, but P3D will change the settings to something else. When I reload my profile settings, they are different from the ones I saved.

For me, it's more than just the graphics profiles (which are also forgotten)  - it's everything! Even a general purpose setting like disabling aircraft labels gets reset next time I load the Sim? 

Ideas anyone? 

Regards 

Gary 

[onurair 24]

21 minutes ago, garydpoole said:

For me, it's more than just the graphics profiles (which are also forgotten)  - it's everything! Even a general purpose setting like disabling aircraft labels gets reset next time I load the Sim? 

Ideas anyone? 

Regards 

Gary 

hmm interesting.. I have troubles to save the max cloud draw distance. It keeps reducing all the time. I'm not sure however if active sky is resetting it. 
Btw. it's 110NM in both AS and P3d. But P3d is resetting it to 100NM as soon as I close the app.

[mickatmian 52]

Same problem.

Try manually changing settings but do not save them. Works for me, they are still the same after a restart.

Active sky will change cloud draw distance.

Mick

 

 

[Piotr007 165]

1 hour ago, onurair said:

hmm interesting.. I have troubles to save the max cloud draw distance. It keeps reducing all the time. I'm not sure however if active sky is resetting it. 
Btw. it's 110NM in both AS and P3d. But P3d is resetting it to 100NM as soon as I close the app.

I can confirm P3D is resetting cloud draw distance to 100nmi. Even when set 250nmi in ASP4.

[garydpoole 183]

31 minutes ago, mickatmian said:

Same problem.

Try manually changing settings but do not save them. Works for me, they are still the same after a restart

Not sure that I under what you mean by manually changing a setting, but not saving it? 

Regards 

[richbonneau 76]

I had this problem when I used a non-default aircraft in my saved default flight.  After I changed back to a default aircraft (in my case, the Cub) in my saved default flight it's fine now.

[mickatmian 52]

6 hours ago, garydpoole said:

Not sure that I under what you mean by manually changing a setting, but not saving it? 

Regards 

Just go to graphics settings change whatever items you wish then exit without saving. for me the next time I start the sim the settings are exactly as I left them. 

Mick

[rickjake 243]

Just a thought,  are you running Prepar3d with administrator rights?

(Find the Prepar3D.exe file, right click on it, select Properties, Compatibility,  put a check mark for "Run this program as an administrator")

Do this, regardless if your windows profile is already has Administrator rights.

Don't know if this will help solve your problem, but it sounds like your Prepar3d program cannot save its settings, and this usually is a permissions issue when writing to files on your hard drive.

[garydpoole 183]

Hello All

Many thanks for all of your suggestions, but no luck. I still can't fathom what's going on ?

Here is an example exert from my Prepar3D.cfg relating to AI traffic density during and after exiting the previous session:

[TrafficManager]
AirlineDensity=100
GADensity=0
FreewayDensity=0
ShipsAndFerriesDensity=100
LeisureBoatsDensity=100

I can clearly see that all % values agree with those that I previously setup whilst in the sim - the same goes for all the other settings within the file that I haven't posted.

However, here is a screen shot of the equivalent options screen in P3D, the next time that I loaded it:

As you can see, all of the settings have reverted back to their defaults of 0%? What's even more weird is that the .cfg file is still showing the 100% values as seen in the exert above when opened at the same time ?

I can only conclude (at the moment) that P3D has no problems writing to the .cfg - it's reading from it that's giving it the issues ?

Any thoughts ?

Regards

Gary

Edit: I have now set Prepar3D.cfg to Read Only which correctly prevents me from editing the file with a text editor, but seems to make absolutely no difference to P3D when it first loads and then some how, it is still able to write to the .cfg file when I adjust values from within the sim ???

 

 

[tpollen 4]

I had a similar problem recently after installing FSUIPC.  A number of Sliders were changed to 0, Texture Resolution changed each time I ran P3Dv4, no Hat Switch on my Logitech 3DPro, etc. Problems continued even after deleting the cfg file.

Had to reinstall P3Dv4, I'm forgetting about FCUIPC for the moment.

Trevor

[mickatmian 52]

See this post at LM by Rod Mcarthy.

We found an issue with the saved profiles and are working on a fix.

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=125067#p159567