Hi, I want to change my exterior shadow distance from 90 to 200. It works ingame, looks great and const very little to zero performance.
But this setting reverts to default 90 after a while. Even when I set the file to read only.
How is that even possible?
settings.ini gets overwrited even with Read Only flag
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Re: settings.ini gets overwrited even with Read Only flag
The Read only-flag is very unreliable when programs write directly to files, most of the file security stuff in Windows is handled through the Security-tab where you can remove user accounts and groups or set them to deny access. I don't think it's worth it in this case thoughKing of Worms wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:44 am Hi, I want to change my exterior shadow distance from 90 to 200. It works ingame, looks great and const very little to zero performance.
But this setting reverts to default 90 after a while. Even when I set the file to read only.
How is that even possible?
Pango mentioned in the other thread that the value gets capped to 150, that's also what got saved to my INI when I checked so I'm not sure why you got 90 back, try setting it to 150 and hopefully that sticks.
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Re: settings.ini gets overwrited even with Read Only flag
Thanks, Ive replied in the shadows thread so far the 150 seems to stick. But honestly, setting to read/write worked on all games where I did that so far, thats why it was surprising to me. Well, at least on Windows 7, now Im at Win10..BadLuckBurt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:19 pmThe Read only-flag is very unreliable when programs write directly to files, most of the file security stuff in Windows is handled through the Security-tab where you can remove user accounts and groups or set them to deny access. I don't think it's worth it in this case thoughKing of Worms wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:44 am Hi, I want to change my exterior shadow distance from 90 to 200. It works ingame, looks great and const very little to zero performance.
But this setting reverts to default 90 after a while. Even when I set the file to read only.
How is that even possible?
Pango mentioned in the other thread that the value gets capped to 150, that's also what got saved to my INI when I checked so I'm not sure why you got 90 back, try setting it to 150 and hopefully that sticks.
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Re: settings.ini gets overwrited even with Read Only flag
I'm still on Win7. I've seen the same thing happen with No Man's Sky where it would reset certain values if you didn't stay out of the options screen after changing the ini. Good to hear the 150 seems to stick though, at least you only need to this trick once thenKing of Worms wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:54 pm Thanks, Ive replied in the shadows thread so far the 150 seems to stick. But honestly, setting to read/write worked on all games where I did that so far, thats why it was surprising to me. Well, at least on Windows 7, now Im at Win10..
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Re: settings.ini gets overwrited even with Read Only flag
Exterior shadow distance range is 0.1 to 150.0. This cap happens when the value is read in, and will never go above 150. Try setting it to 150 and see how you go.