Game wont start / getting previous settings ?

[SKYWARRIOR]

I am a relative Newbie some 6 months now. Fly F18 and progressing well.  Fly with Win Wing DDI screens and after some teething problems all working well. EXCEPT that the updates require me to re install "Re shade" to enhance my screen brilliance which when it works it works well.

However this update screwed my re install of re shade and despite removing/uninstalling it the problem now is the game wont start at all.

Faced with a re install on a slow IP connection some 7 hours ! my question is despite me backing up my settings about two months ago I have made changes recently.

So can I retrieve my settings from, or copy a folder with them in and replace it into the new download which seems inevitable please. Yes I know a lesson learned the hard way but is there a fix ?

David 

P.S any chance of DCS upgrading their video output code and the necessity for such a work around ?

Edited 13 hours ago by SKYWARRIOR
added DDI to screens

[MAXsenna]

26 minutes ago, SKYWARRIOR said:

However this update screwed my re install of re shade and despite removing/uninstalling it the problem now is the game wont start at all.

Try to rename your DCS folder in Saved Games. If it that doesn't start the game, perform a repair, (or a file verification if on Steam), then it will only download the files necessary.

26 minutes ago, SKYWARRIOR said:

Faced with a re install on a slow IP connection some 7 hours !

Never ever do that. It's a waste of time when the game includes a repair function. If you want the game back to completely vanilla, perform a repair and rename your DCS Saved Games folder. That's it.

26 minutes ago, SKYWARRIOR said:

my question is despite me backing up my settings about two months ago I have made changes recently.
So can I retrieve my settings from, or copy a folder with them in and replace it into the new download which seems inevitable please. Yes I know a lesson learned the hard way but is there a fix ?

Yes. You can retrieve your settings, and try to copy them back. But your settings are in Saved Games. Not in your download/installation. However, reshade is actually in the Core installation folders. If you perform a repair, it will backup the files that doesn't belong, (mods, which reshade is), and remove corrupted files. This action is sort of done when you update, hence why reshade will be removed whenever you update. Try to see if you have some backup folders in your installation folders.

Cheers! 
 

Edited 12 hours ago by MAXsenna
Formatting

[SKYWARRIOR]

Max, Thank you once again for help. 

I am not on Steam 

I have tried to update and it starts to check then bombs out so I have re set my Nvidia driver to the latest but to no avail.

I cannot repair it without entering the game and it does not do start. It goes for about 5 secs then the blue circle stops and ends.

This is what led me to think it might be Graphics as this is the time the Nvidia panel comes up to check log in 

I have manually deleted and used the Re shade install panel to try and remove everything many times . Also repaired registry and shortcuts and everything that Gary Utilities will offer.

When you say re name the DCS folder what to ? 

I have copied my input setting folder which is out of date by about three weeks and hope to use this when this lot is repaired. 

I have to solve this as I need re shade for the DDI panels and this update as opposed to the last four set the Re shade settings panel without the four relevant shaders  UIMask top UIMask bottom Tonemap etc were not there as before so I blame the update in my naivety ! 

Any further comments welcome.  The only good thing this that "Openreach" the `Telecom provider sent me an e mail saying I will finally after 6 months have a 1Gig connection so future rubbish will just take less time !!!

David

If its true it would be nice to have this fixed in DCS and negate "Re Shade"