How to patch the sim and update your .ini files (if you have the old ones).

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by meplay

Hi Blackdog_kt

Im going to give this a whirl, i am getting some stutters after installing this patch so hopefully if i do it this way, it will help. Do i need to have my steam cloud on to get the patch from steam or do's it still work without?

Thanks S!

You don't need to keep Steam cloud enabled. As soon as the patch is beyond the beta stage it will get incremented with a new version number and will be out on steam for automatic download.

If you have automatic updates enabled you will get a notification in the steam interface and it will begin downloading. If you prefer to keep the updates off, once the patch is released you can right-click on your CoD icon in steam and go to properties, there you can set auto-updates to on and let it update and then set it to off again.

What the clouds does is transfer settings between your currently used pC and steam, it doesn't have anything to do with patching. The initial .ini files are in your game folder, then they get copied over to the documents\1c softclub folder upon installation/first run of the sim and whatever you edit gets saved there (or in both, not really sure).

What the cloud does is upload a copy of them to steam and if you fire up the sim from a different PC with the same account and cloud enabled, it's supposed to download your .ini files so you are up and running fast.

The confusion comes from the fact that i don't really know which set of .ini files it uploads to steam and which set takes precedence (eg, people have enabled the cloud only to have steam overwrite their configs with new, blank files). So i just keep it off and do it the old fashioned way: copy anything i might need to a separate backup folder.

In any case though patching is not tied to the cloud, so if you find the description of what it does confusing you can keep it turned off and not care about it

Originally Posted by Tiger27

This is a peice of great advice, I have been through the files and they are quite different from previous ones, only problem I am having with this and the last patch is I cant save or load my controller settings, so I have to keep redoing them

This is an issue with the latest beta patch and already brought to the developers' attention. People report that going to the "plane" menu from the main loading screen and setting loadouts there works: they can be properly saved and selected for the flight during the mission pre-flight screens.

However, something got broken in the "player plane" menu which alters your personal loadouts, this is found on the map pre-flight screen right before you spawn. People report it works in multiplayer though.

The temporary workaround is to save loadouts in the plane menu and assign them to your entire flight for offline flying.

Originally Posted by Blackrat

Nice post, reposted on syndicate forum too, hopefully it has sorted out my crossfire issues, so far so good. Also it seems processaffinity has gone from the conf.ini file and is incorporated in the main core as I still get all four cores being used.

In game when you set up your controls there is an option to save them, this then creates a control file in your documents section for COD which you can backup elsewhere and just copy back when you upgrade.

Yep, the affinity mask setting was withdrawn.

Also, the ability to save just the keybindings and controls is very useful. My one main worry was that my personalized mycontrols.ini file would be incompatible with the new conf.ini, but thankfully it worked just fine and i didn't have to remap everything from scratch.

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Thanks for the post!


Does anybody know what may have changed between the old and the new conf.ini files?


~S~

There were a lot of legacy parameters in the initial config files that were not really used by the sim, leftovers from previous builds during development and so on. At least that's what Luthier said when the sim was initially released and that's why he told us it's possible to horribly break the sim if we just went around and started changing values
The new conf.ini has a lot less parameters, so i guess they simply cleaned up all the unnecessary leftover values.