Graphics settings reset every time when opening the game

[ArtistKS]

Is there a fix to this? Everytime I open the game the graphics go back to their standard setting that the auto configuration thinks is best.

[Yujah]

Never experienced nor heard here -- or is the game also failing saves? (by sleeping on the bed in a safehouse). If latter it's a general issue with being unable to write in this case configuration-information to where it needs to go. For that, see

https://steamcommunity.com/app/12210/discussions/0/4336483474866680543/?tscn=1717848759

[Marquês de Tamandaré]

teste

[ArtistKS]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Never experienced nor heard here -- or is the game also failing saves? (by sleeping on the bed in a safehouse). If latter it's a general issue with being unable to write in this case configuration-information to where it needs to go. For that, see

https://steamcommunity.com/app/12210/discussions/0/4336483474866680543/?tscn=1717848759

The game saves fine

[Fried Brains]

add, change or delete commandline.txt

[Yujah]

Originally posted by ArtistKS:

The game saves fine

Then things start to be a bit more mystic -- which reminds me of another such case: have you moved your Windows-user's default user-account folders to somewhere? That is: seems the configured resolution is saved to

%LocalAppData%\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Settings\SETTINGS.CFG

in which %LocalAppData% is normally

C:\Users\<your Windows username>\AppData\Local

(mind you that that's a hidden folder if you'd navigate there manually). If you have moved your user folder elsewhere but the game hardcodes something that may be the issue.

If not, check if anything's up with that %LocalAppData% folder, including then making doubly sure from/via the above posted reply that you don't have e.g. Windows Defender or similar garbage "protecting" you to death.

A (small) note is that a change in resolution here also triggered a change in

C:\Users\<your Windows username>\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some hex id>\<some other hex id>.dat

but that's probably not to do with resolution as such but e.g. recording of last-login. Still also check if something's up there if need be.

Can tell you that your issue is not normal/known, so concenrrate on possible causes unique to you.

[ArtistKS]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Originally posted by ArtistKS:

The game saves fine

Then things start to be a bit more mystic -- which reminds me of another such case: have you moved your Windows-user's default user-account folders to somewhere? That is: seems the configured resolution is saved to

%LocalAppData%\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Settings\SETTINGS.CFG

in which %LocalAppData% is normally

C:\Users\<your Windows username>\AppData\Local

(mind you that that's a hidden folder if you'd navigate there manually). If you have moved your user folder elsewhere but the game hardcodes something that may be the issue.

If not, check if anything's up with that %LocalAppData% folder, including then making doubly sure from/via the above posted reply that you don't have e.g. Windows Defender or similar garbage "protecting" you to death.

A (small) note is that a change in resolution here also triggered a change in

C:\Users\<your Windows username>\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some hex id>\<some other hex id>.dat

but that's probably not to do with resolution as such but e.g. recording of last-login. Still also check if something's up there if need be.

Can tell you that your issue is not normal/known, so concenrrate on possible causes unique to you.

I didn't touch my User folder, also this issue is indeed very well known.

[Yujah]

Best of luck; sure one of those many other reports of the issue will then help solve it.