Quick Guide: How to save your settings for custom maps/mods

[dommafia]

Here's a quick guide for everyone to save their settings. First load up your game up normally and login to your name. Now bring down the console (ctrl + alt + ~)
type in the console the following command:
writeConfig myconfig.cfg

Now all your settings and binds are saved to "myconfig.cfg" file. Whenever you load up a custom map or mod that clears your binds or settings then just bring down the console and type:
exec myconfig

You don't even need the ".cfg" at the end. This will bring up ALL your settings back, including name colors, binds and gfx settings.

[Seatsniffer]

Awesome, thx!
I'm just about in for a reformat, will be handy indeed...at least, I hope it can also restore your settings after a re-install?

Where will the *.cfg be saved?

[Backdraft]

Awesome, thx!
I'm just about in for a reformat, will be handy indeed...at least, I hope it can also restore your settings after a re-install?

Where will the *.cfg be saved?

It should be in C:\My Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars\base folder. Just make a copy of that file and put it in the same place after your reinstall, then exec it to restore your settings.

[GanjMahal]

My game doesn't write configs, which is wierd (but it's okay, since I can remap my controls pretty fast). I don't know what the deal is but when I type "writeconfig $NAME" into the console it says its writing it but no entry shows up in my base folder when I go to retreive it.

[Singh400]

My game doesn't write configs, which is wierd (but it's okay, since I can remap my controls pretty fast). I don't know what the deal is but when I type "writeconfig $NAME" into the console it says its writing it but no entry shows up in my base folder when I go to retreive it.Thats interesting - what the **** did you do to it?!

[pierrat]

Geeze Ganj, isn's that rather aggravating with always having to reset your binds? I know if it was me, I wouldn't rest until that problem is solved.

[darthmob]

My game doesn't write configs, which is wierd (but it's okay, since I can remap my controls pretty fast). I don't know what the deal is but when I type "writeconfig $NAME" into the console it says its writing it but no entry shows up in my base folder when I go to retreive it. either you are looking in the wrong directory or you have got that folder write-protected.

[M8DNanite]

Dont use default user profile that will help also this problem.

[dommafia]

My game doesn't write configs, which is wierd (but it's okay, since I can remap my controls pretty fast). I don't know what the deal is but when I type "writeconfig $NAME" into the console it says its writing it but no entry shows up in my base folder when I go to retreive it.

START MENU > SEARCH > ALL HARDDRIVES

search for your config name and see where it's being saved. Like someone said, the only way it wont get written is if you have your folder write protected, which I highly doubt :\

[[TFA]Violator]

If you do

writeConfig autoexec.cfg

it will automatically load without the need for the exec command.

[Seatsniffer]

It should be in C:\My Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars\base folder. Just make a copy of that file and put it in the same place after your reinstall, then exec it to restore your settings.
thx. :infiltrator:

[FishStix]

I will use this.

[panickin]

just a note this works for etqw pro mod also just manually move the autoexec.cfg to the etqw pro folder (not sure if it needs to be in the base or the sdnet one though, i put it in both and i don't lose my settings at all)

[SecretFire]

My game doesn't write configs, which is wierd (but it's okay, since I can remap my controls pretty fast). I don't know what the deal is but when I type "writeconfig $NAME" into the console it says its writing it but no entry shows up in my base folder when I go to retreive it.

On my Vista install, it was in Users\<name>\id Software\Enemy Territory - Quake Wars\base\

EDIT: Gah, that's just where process explorer thought it was. It was actually in the Users\<name>\Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory - Quake Wars\base\ folder.

[brutt01d]

just a note this works for etqw pro mod also just manually move the autoexec.cfg to the etqw pro folder (not sure if it needs to be in the base or the sdnet one though, i put it in both and i don't lose my settings at all)

Just installed etqw pro and the config doesn't work for me somehow. I copied my autoexec to mydocs/.../etqwpro/ but it doesn' get loaded automatically. After clicking on an etqwpro server in game browser the game restarts (i know it's normal) but then asks for pb to be enabled, although i have the pb enabling command in autoexec.cfg. Mouse doesn't work until I press escape and the video starts. I have to enable pb manually each time and then exec autoexec.cfg. Is it normal?

[FishStix]

Its not letting me exec my vanilla myconfig in promod, I guess I need to make a myconfig for both to be sure?

[Seanza]

Put your config into your etqwpro folder aswell.

[brutt01d]

doesn't work!

[ZeBlob]

Here's an easy an simple trick that simplifies managing config files :
I have all my configs in the base folder (not in the sdnet folder). My config with all my binds an cvars is called main.cfg. You can create it with the writeconfig as described above or just make one that calls the etqwconfig.cfg and the etqwbinds.cfg files. Then I create an autoexec.cfg with a single line which calls my main.cfg ("exec main.cfg") which I then copy to all my mod folders. That's it.

No matter which autoexec.cfg is called, ET:QW will eventually check the base folder for the main.cfg file. Hence no need to move things around all the time. Also if you make any modifications you won't have to mirror them all over the place.