How to configure Simutrans and preserve configuration

[Roboron]

For starters, simuconf.tab file in your Simutrans directory is where your Simutrans configuration is stored (things like fullscreen setting, fonts, gameplay preferences...).
You need to know that there are 3 different simuconf.tab files that Simutrans will read:

1. User simuconf.tab. This will overwrite any other simuconf.tab, if it is present.
2. Pakset simuconf.tab. Each pakset has a different one. This overwrite Simutrans default simuconf.tab.
3. Simutrans default simuconf.tab.

A default simuconf.tab configuration file is provided with the game when you download it. If you update the game, this file will update too, reversing any changes you made to it!
To avoid losing any configuration, copy the simuconf.tab from your Simutrans Steam directory (Steam/steamapps/common/Simutrans/config/simuconf.tab), to your Simutrans user directory:

• On Windows: %userprofile%/documents/simutrans/simuconf.tab
  
• On Linux: ~/simutrans/simuconf.tab

Now, while you can configure some of the options from inside the game, not all of them are available. You will need to edit the simuconf.tab and read what options are available here.

You will see that the file is divided in sections, so you can jump to the ones you are interested in. Here's an overview:

1. program stuff
2. passenger stuff
3. factory stuff
4. display stuff
5. money stuff
6. pak set stuff
7. forest stuff
8. system stuff
9. network stuff

For reference, here you have some of the more useful parameters:

# do not show the buttons to delete old savegames (default)
show_delete_buttons = 0

# save the current game when quitting and reload it upon reopening
reload_and_save_on_quit = 1

# display (screen/window) width
# also see readme.txt, -screensize option
display_width  = 1800

# display (screen/window) height
# also see readme.txt, -screensize option
display_height = 1100

# show full screen
#fullscreen = 0

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[Huperspace]

windows use %userprofile%/documents/simutrans/simuconf.tab or <game dir> /config/simuconf.tab

[Huperspace]

Originally posted by Roboron:

• On Windows: %userprofile/documents/simutrans/simuconf.tab

you missed the % at the end of profile , else it doesn't work as it's a windows sys variable

[Roboron]

omg how can I fail that EVERYTIME I write something?, thank you