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#1 User is offline   Jontomxire Icon

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Posted 08 March 2020 - 07:16 PM

When I fix my video and sound settings they are not remembered. In the console I see a message like "unable to write q3config.cfg". I wrote my own q3config with the required settings in both the game folder and the q3ut4 folder but it seemed to not read them. I put the required settings in q3ut4/autoexec.cfg but, although other settings in that file are read, these were not. The lines I am putting in the config files are:

seta r_mode "16"
seta s_musicvolume "0.03"
seta s_volume "0.45"

The permissions for the whole game folder and all contents are readable and writeable (and executable where appropriate) for user, groups, and other. In other words total access by everyone is allowed.

I haven't played Urban Terror for over a decade so I am really excited to find it not only alive and well, but better than ever with new guns and game modes and full Linux support (the installer cpould use some work though). However, having to set video mode and volumes every time I start it...not so cool.

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Posted 08 March 2020 - 07:19 PM

Ok, so I think the autoexec.cfg settigns did work, but it would still be good to get the q3config.cfg file to write. Any tips much appreciated.

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Posted 08 March 2020 - 09:10 PM

On linux the game will not use the q3config in the game directory but instead one in "~/.q3a" iirc, so that might be why its not able to write.

check *fs_homedir* (which should be your config dir) vs *fs_basedir* which would be the game files directory. Those are read only and can only be set via a launch argument to the executable.
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Posted 12 March 2020 - 09:07 AM

View PostIye, on 08 March 2020 - 09:10 PM, said:

On linux the game will not use the q3config in the game directory but instead one in "~/.q3a" iirc, so that might be why its not able to write.

check *fs_homedir* (which should be your config dir) vs *fs_basedir* which would be the game files directory. Those are read only and can only be set via a launch argument to the executable.



Thanks, that's it!

It was using autoexec.cfg and server.cfg from the game directory.

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