Settings not saving

[76561198272466221]

Is this another known bug? Pretty frustrating to rebind my keys every time I boot the game so... that AND the video settings revert. Why doesn't it save all my settings?

[Doggy Friend]

Try running it as administrator.

[Minari99]

Originally posted by Doggy Friend:

Try running it as administrator.

Yeah. Apparently morrowind only saves your settings with this method.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Morrowind/comments/ok8qct/morrowind_launcher_settings_not_saving/

"Morrowind only saves your settings if you run it in administrator mode. Go into "properties" for both the launcher and morrowind exe files and select "always run as administrator". This will then also work fine when you start the game through steam (you will unfortunately always have the windows UAC pop-up on startup). Remember that you might have to do this again after applying MCP. EDIT: Sorry, I missed you already knew about that. But I have to say I used this method and modded my game and no problem ever occurred."

[76561198272466221]

Todd... how does it "just work"

[Minari99]

Originally posted by You're brown:

Todd... how does it "just work"

Todd just lies. It has never worked. None of the games have worked pitch perfect. There's always some quest bugs unless you use help of modders.

[PainkilleR]

Originally posted by Minari99:

Originally posted by Doggy Friend:

Try running it as administrator.

Yeah. Apparently morrowind only saves your settings with this method.

Or installing the game into the folder that doesn't require administrative privileges, ie outside of program files.

[theo]

This is normal and has little to do with the game, this is just how windows operates, in some cases it won't allow certain programs edit files (in which settings are kept, in our case). Sometimes antimalware and cloud services do the exact same thing. This is common software thing, not something specific to Bethesda games

[Minari99]

Originally posted by PainkilleR:

Originally posted by Minari99:

Yeah. Apparently morrowind only saves your settings with this method.

Or installing the game into the folder that doesn't require administrative privileges, ie outside of program files.

What about installing it in external hard drive by the way?

[lonetrav]

Should work - just try it. But it's unlikely to work (without registry editing) when you use the external disk with a different PC.

By the way, I never had any problems with setting savings. It's always easy to blame the game (which obviously has bugs, just like every other game, but not every perceived game bug is a real game bug - as I know myself from experience :-)).

[Minari99]

Originally posted by lonetrav:

Should work - just try it. But it's unlikely to work (without registry editing) when you use the external disk with a different PC.

By the way, I never had any problems with setting savings. It's always easy to blame the game (which obviously has bugs, just like every other game, but not every perceived game bug is a real game bug - as I know myself from experience :-)).

Already got the game installed that way but just wanted to know if it's good way. But the game has worked on my internal hard drive too. So it might just be that OP's windows does not allow things to run as well like mine does or something

[psychotron666]

There's a few causes that it could be.
Could be that you have the game in program files, which windows in their infinite wisdom changed permission properties of program files around the windows 7/8 era despite the fact that every game in existence used it by default - thus breaking all those games.

Could be one drive or anti virus software that's blacking you too.

Could be that you need to run as administrator too.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Minari99:

Originally posted by lonetrav:

Should work - just try it. But it's unlikely to work (without registry editing) when you use the external disk with a different PC.

By the way, I never had any problems with setting savings. It's always easy to blame the game (which obviously has bugs, just like every other game, but not every perceived game bug is a real game bug - as I know myself from experience :-)).

Already got the game installed that way but just wanted to know if it's good way. But the game has worked on my internal hard drive too. So it might just be that OP's windows does not allow things to run as well like mine does or something

You can install on an external disk no problem. The only issue he was getting at was if you installed it on an external disk on a different computer, then plugged it into another computer and tried to play - then it would need registry editing.

[madgamer2]

Originally posted by You're brown:

Is this another known bug? Pretty frustrating to rebind my keys every time I boot the game so... that AND the video settings revert. Why doesn't it save all my settings?

I figure that having to set the game setup file every time you boot the game is just part of playing the game. Consider yourself lucky you don't have a sporadic work/doesn't work mapping. Going to all the trouble to get something to function the way you want instead of the way it does and you don't like having to do it every time says something about the way you play games in general.
I like the feature because I can change things on the fly without having to save and reboot, but to each his own.

[76561198272466221]

Originally posted by theo:

This is normal and has little to do with the game, this is just how windows operates, in some cases it won't allow certain programs edit files (in which settings are kept, in our case). Sometimes antimalware and cloud services do the exact same thing. This is common software thing, not something specific to Bethesda games

I have realized that some games I have do boot up every single time in admin mode; and I only make this connection after Y E A R S.

[Storm Princess]

I came for this discussion. I stopped playing because of this very issue. Steam doesn't let me pick where to install it but i'll try running it as administrator once i have reinstalled it. Thank you guys, the binding issue was driving me nut.

[Minari99]

Originally posted by Storm Princess:

I came for this discussion. I stopped playing because of this very issue. Steam doesn't let me pick where to install it but i'll try running it as administrator once i have reinstalled it. Thank you guys, the binding issue was driving me nut.

If you only have one hard drive, you need to have steam installed elsewhere when you install steam. Otherwise you need to reinstall steam in order to move it. But if you have extra hard drive you can make steamapps folder there and when installing games, just choose that drive