[CLOSED] Settings shared 1.5 / 1.2 versions

[Redglyph]

Hello,

 

I've installed DCS 1.5 open beta to test it. However, since it's beta and I read here we (probably) shouldn't use our pilot profiles with this version, so I'm still keeping the main 1.2 version.

 

The settings are apparently shared between the different versions, there is no version in the path to them:

 

%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\DCS\Config

 

(I saw nothing else relevant to options in the registry, so I suppose it's the only user-specific place they are stored)

 

This seems to be a problem. When I launched DCS 1.2 for the first time after using 1.5, the graphics were a little weird, and sure enough, when looking at the main settings after quitting the session, I saw that some of them were blank.

 

Shouldn't the settings directories be separate, given the significant differences between 1.2 and 1.5 (and possibly later, 2.0)? Are those supposed to co-exist?

 

Thanks

[cichlidfan]

That should not be the case. The Open Beta should contain a file, in the main DCS folder, called 'dcs_variant.txt' which should contain the word 'openbeta' and nothing else. The existence of this file cause the creation of the folder ..\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta.

 

That is the Saved Games folder that the beta should be using. It should not be using your 1.2 folder at all.

 

EDIT: It is worth noting that the 'dcs_variant.txt' file is how people, like myself, maintain multiple versions, of the released sim, on one machine without conflicts.

Edited October 14, 2015 by cichlidfan

[Redglyph]

Thanks, that seems to explain the problem :)

 

The 1.5 open beta was installed from Stream, which didn't add this file. Installing from a downloaded version of DCS world did, and the settings are now in two different directories.