Setup does not work

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Rexmundi
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Setup does not work

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Everytime I try to change the settings of Vegastrike I open setup and it opens ok but when I want to change any setting the programm closes.

for example I attempted to change the resolution, so I click the resolution tab and set it to 1920 x 1080. As soon as I press 1920 x 1080 the programm closes leaving me unable to save the settings.. this happens with all the options. not just the resolution one.

Any Idea how I can fix this?
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Re: Setup does not work

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Not w/o knowing your OS.

I have never had an issue with it under windows though I don't think VS has been played under win 8 yet so no telling what weirdy things will happen there.
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Re: Setup does not work

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I think it is possible to directly alter the vegastrike config file, can anyone explain me how that works? I want to change the resolution, the highest graphs,shaders etc. and I want to be able to steer with my mouse.

I reckon it's the vegastrike config file in the vegastrike main directory and I have to alter these settings:

These line set the currently used settings. This allows them to show up as selected (currently enclosed in [])
#set Geometry GeomVeryHigh
#set Textures Tex1024
#set FactionTextures faction_tex_on
#set Resolution 1024x768
#set Sound audio_3d_win_male
#set MusicAndVolume windows_ext_music_high
#set Computer P1000MHz
#set Color full_32
#set Difficulty medium
#set Mouse no_mouse
#set Joystick joy_normal
#set Shaders highshader
#set AcceleratedVisual gl_accelerated_visual_on
#set Autodocker autodocker_off

What I do not know is what I should change it to, the resolution shouldn't be a problem but what do I change the other to?
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See my topic about the same thing:

Those are not the settings you have to alter: those ones you have to alter are way further down in the config file.
I'd suggest checking out the wiki on this one. I refrained from screwing around with the graphics presets, apart from resolutions, and left them as they were, but as for other things:

<!-- #(whatever) --> is a the active presets (what the file means about 'commenting'). You'll notice a bunch of sets in which the commenting is fractured, Comment out what you want to turn off, complete/comment in what you what you want to turn on.

A coder will probably better explain this than I will, and I think I've screwed up the syntax a bit, but I hope that helps.
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It's pretty well explained in fact.
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Use notepad ++ under Windows set the language to XML the syntax highlighting will show which of the setting blocks is active if you get really lost post your preferences and I will edit and post it for you ;)

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pfff I just found out why the setup did not work.. I just now put it on compatibility mode xp PS3 and run as administrator.. and now it works fine..

Thanks for explaining the syntax thing, although I wouldn't know how to alter it I did figure out where what is in the config file.
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Re: Setup does not work

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I should have said that as I have had to run setup as admin myself we really should be changing that name as that is the only reason that Windows thinks that it's an install program.


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Should be called vssetup. Or, if that also gives you trouble, vsconfig.
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Changing the name locally has no effect as the OS reads the manifest file ;)

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Really stupid of M$ to do it like that. What needs protecting is the file system (and system files), not running "setup.exe". That's so lame as a security measure that I'm... astonished.
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The problem imho is that it modifies vegastrike.config in vegastrike/data. It should use .vegastrike/vegastrike.config in user home dir, needs the same path fixes as vegastrike.
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In linux, at least, only modifies the one in ~/.vegastrike.
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klauss wrote:Really stupid of M$ to do it like that. What needs protecting is the file system (and system files), not running "setup.exe". That's so lame as a security measure that I'm... astonished.
No real user privilege separation in windows means that they effectively can't protect the file system. So they fall back to circumstantial measures which annoy their suers.
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There is a lot of support for privilege separation in fact. They just haven't been doing a good job at using it on default installations.
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Re: Setup does not work

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I've got the same problem. Im running win7 and whenever I try to change the resolution the setup closes and doesnt save. When I open it next time its back to default.
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Welcome aboard drgrin91 have you tried running the setup exe as Administrator just right click on it you should see Run as administrator as one of the options.

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For that matter - do drop boxes, simple pattern search and commenting out text need C, really? Why it's not just PyGTK or something?
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It is actually the windows uac security if i'm not mistaken which would prevent pretty much anything from writing into the games folder.
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