20 minutes ago, MarcG said:

Ok so main panic over (Steam);

• Controller Profiles reverted to Default, so had to change them back with the arrows and thankfully they are intact (backed up the steam folder just in case)
• Graphics/Data/Sound etc Options all reverted to Default, thankfully had screenshots saved so manually changed them back (backed up UserCfg.opt for Graphics, can't see how to backup the others)
• Assistance Settings reverted to Easy <sigh>, can't see a way to back these up.
• Flight Settings/World Map reverted to Default, manually changed these back (can't find a way to back these up either)

I've said this before and I'll say it again; I seriously hope they change this god awful need to rely on saving mundane settings to the Cloud and not locally, they *NEED* to be saved locally (as well as the cloud) to help prevent complete clusterballsups like this that have been happening to players since Day One.

 

The same happened to me - I'm also on Steam. I already thought I was the only one... Took me 15 minutes to set everything back to how it was - not the end of the world, but I really hope this doesn't happen again with the next update. 

As you said, there really should be a way to back up *all* settings, including the controller profiles. 

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by pstrub

installed the windows update people mentioned, no settings reset for me. On steam.

Maybe there was a server hiccup.

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by Tuskin38