Key rebinding is not saved after I launch the game again

[Akunh]

Key rebinding is not saved after I launch the game again
Any help?
edit: I tried reinstalling, still doen't work

[Akunh]

Bump

[KaptainKumKakes]

try launching game as admin?

[Akunh]

Originally posted by KaptainKumKakes:

try launching game as admin?

I launch it from steam

[Akunh]

Bump. Please is there any way to fix it?
I tried reinstalling, still doen't work

[Zoé]

Same issue. Keyboard settings reset every time. Any other settings are fine.

[Zoé]

I think I know why it happens.

My admin user account on windows is "Zoé". There is a "special" character : é
DS Reastered is supposed to create DarkSoulsKeys.ini in the settings folder C:\Users\"Username"\AppData\Local\FromSoftware\NBGI\DarkSouls but it doesn't if I'm using this account.

I tried to launch the game with another account (without any special character) and every thing was fine. DarkSoulsKeys.ini was there and keybindings were saved.

So do you have any special character in your windows user account?

[Akunh]

Originally posted by Zoé:

I think I know why it happens.

My admin user account on windows is "Zoé". There is a "special" character : é
DS Reastered is supposed to create DarkSoulsKeys.ini in the settings folder C:\Users\"Username"\AppData\Local\FromSoftware\NBGI\DarkSouls but it doesn't if I'm using this account.

I tried to launch the game with another account (without any special character) and every thing was fine. DarkSoulsKeys.ini was there and keybindings were saved.

So do you have any special character in your windows user account?

Only 1, but i tried to open a new one and launch it there and it worked, so i moved the DarkSoulsKeys.ini to my main account and deleted the other user and it still doesn't save

[Galewin]

Originally posted by Zoé:

I think I know why it happens.

My admin user account on windows is "Zoé". There is a "special" character : é
DS Reastered is supposed to create DarkSoulsKeys.ini in the settings folder C:\Users\"Username"\AppData\Local\FromSoftware\NBGI\DarkSouls but it doesn't if I'm using this account.

I tried to launch the game with another account (without any special character) and every thing was fine. DarkSoulsKeys.ini was there and keybindings were saved.

So do you have any special character in your windows user account?

Thanks for the input, I also have this problem, and I also have an accent in my username folder, so that might be it. I tried to download a "DarkSoulsKeys.ini" from a friend and place it directly, but it doesn't fix the issue, and I'm too lazy to create another account, reinstall everything etc.. so I'll have to wait for the patch, but thanks for pointing that !

[Zoé]

Originally posted by Galewin:

.. so I'll have to wait for the patch, but thanks for pointing that !

It would indeed be nice to have a patch.

[Zoé]

I've sent a ticket to BANDAI NAMCO Support. This is the answer I got :

Originally posted by BANDAI NAMCO Support:

Hello,

Thank you for bringing this issue to our atttention, as well as your very detailed information on how to reproduce it. We will forward it to the dev team so they can look into it.

We are sorry about the keybinding inconvenience and we'll do what we can to address it.
If you catch any other bugs or glitches do not hesitate to contact us at any time.
Best wishes,Andy

Hopefully a fix is coming soon.

[Alex Delarge]

4 years later still not fixed, very nice.

[Zoé]

Very nice indeed!

[tervakuusonen]

Just in case someone is interested you can change your folder name in the C:\Users directory as follows:
https://winaero.com/rename-user-profile-folder-windows-10/

Mind you this won't change your Windows username so Windows will sill treat you with all the weird-ass characters in the world. It is just your user folder that has the different name. I would say this is the best solution anyway since Dark souls remastered is not the only game/software that has difficulties with non-Latin characters so this can save you from similar future headaches.

As for this game specifically this is by far the easiest solution as I did too many hours of research on the matter and it does not seem that you can change the location Dark souls remastered fetches its configs easily. In the files there does not seem to be any reference whatsoever to the %AppData% directory so chances are it is coded in the .exe file. I tried viewing the .exe code with DotPeek and Ghidra, but could not make a lot of sense of it. (Though I am not programmer)
So if you don't fancy reverse engineering the Dark souls remastered's code I would say settle with the above suggested solution.