Game settings

[theleif]

Has anyone figured out where the game settings are stored locally?
After enabling stereoscopic 3d the game won't start, so i can't change the settings in game, and i when clicking options on the launcher it crashes as well...

[theleif]

Is there really not one person that has found where the game saves the settings on your computer, or are they not stored at all?

[J.N.]

I don't own the game yet, but here are good places to check.

C:\Users\<User Name>\Saved Games\
C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\(Square Enix, Eidos, or Crystal Dynamics)

[theleif]

Sorry, should have informed that i have already looked at the usual places:
Game folder
My Documents\Eidos and Tomb Raider
Appdata/Local and Roaming, and steam/userdata.
I've found that the game does store something in the "steam\userdata\[SteamID number]\203160", but removing it does nothing.

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by The Leif:

Sorry, should have informed that i have already looked at the usual places:
Game folder
My Documents\Eidos and Tomb Raider
Appdata/Local and Roaming, and steam/userdata.
I've found that the game does store something in the "steam\userdata\[number]\203160", but removing it does nothing.

I haven't been able to find the saved games either and I've looked everywhere.

[IndigoAK]

I found them. Since this game uses the Steam Cloud, the save games are stored here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\20874109\203160\remote (or similar if you have a different Steam install folder)

The reason it seems like it does nothing when you delete those files is because Steam redownloads them from the cloud when you do.

[theleif]

Thing is, i've disabled cloud syncing and deleted them, and as long as i keep cloud syncing of, the remotecache.vdf get recreated, but the folder "remote" with the profile.dat file does not. Looking at the remotecache.vdf it seems it only contains syncing info and no game settings, so if there are any settings stored they should be in profile.dat. However, opening that file with notepad i only get gibberish.

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by The Leif:

Thing is, i've disabled cloud syncing and deleted them, and as long as i keep cloud syncing of, the remotecache.vdf get recreated, but the folder "remote" with the profile.dat file does not. Looking at the remotecache.vdf it seems it only contains syncing info and no game settings, so if there are any settings stored they should be in profile.dat. However, opening that file with notepad i only get gibberish.

That's because it's probably not stored as straight text. It's probably encrypted or something.

[Rammur]

If all else fails just delete and reinstall should reset your defaults.

[theleif]

Originally posted by Rammur:

If all else fails just delete and reinstall should reset your defaults.

Nope. I've removed the game, deleted the leftover files and the files in userdata, but it doesn't help.

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by The Leif:

Originally posted by Rammur:

If all else fails just delete and reinstall should reset your defaults.

Nope. I've removed the game, deleted the leftover files and the files in userdata, but it doesn't help.

You could try using Windows Search to scour your entire drive for the profile.dat file. Windows Search seems hit or miss at that kind of thing though unless you specifically tell it to index the entire drive.

[theleif]

Done that, even enabled it to search the appdata folder, but it doesn't find any profile.dat file. After forcing steam to delete the remote data and turning of cloud synk, no files get created in the "203160" folder at all. That seems to indicate that the settings are stored somewhere else as well, but where?

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by The Leif:

Done that, even enabled it to search the appdata folder, but it doesn't find any profile.dat file. After forcing steam to delete the remote data and turning of cloud synk, no files get created in the "203160" folder at all. That seems to indicate that the settings are stored somewhere else as well, but where?

I really wish companies would store game settings all in the same place, for this exact reason.

[v00d00m4n]

all crystal dynamics tomb raider games always stored most of settings here in registry (regedit.exe if you dont know where to look)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics
(could be EIDOS for other games like DXHR)
Your specific settings stored here
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Tomb Raider\Graphics
Find StereoEnabled and set it to 0 , if 3d stereo is not the reason of crash, then just remove graphics sub key in "Tomb Raider" registry key, this will reset gfx to defaults.

[theleif]

It worked! Thank you very much Voodooman!

[DeadDrunk]

So i think I've figured out the issue for the game not working and the options menu crashing for people with Windows 8, Our registry objects are not being fully installed. IE I only have "TextLanguage" in my tomb raider registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Tomb Raider)

Is there anyway someone could export there current registry keys and provide them for us?