1.0.0.621 Advanced Setup screen doesn't remember settings

[Mercade]

When using the Advanced Setup screeen, it always starts with the same settings of Random leader, Tiny map, Prince and Standard speed and all victory settings switched on. It would be much nicer if it would actually remember my last settings so all I have to do is change what I want to change.

Same for the "play now" button that always brings you just to the default settings as described above. Would be much nicer if I could replay with the same settings as my previous game.

Is anyone else experiencing this? And no, I cannot post a savegame of this

 

[mihaifx]

Advanced setup? I'm seeing this when choosing the regular options too. But not always, sometimes they stick around. It's an odd behavior, to be investigated.

 

[watcharin]

I can confirm this problem. It is a little bit annoying.

 

[Petek]

Same problem here, but I have different default settings than mentioned above and they don't change. Current OS is Windows 7. I also have an older system running Windows XP and it has the same problem (different defaults though). The config.ini file contains entries for some of these settings (such as world size), but changing that entry in config.ini doesn't change the game default. I tried deleting config.ini and deleting the cache files. Neither had any effect and I still got the same default settings when starting a new game. It doesn't remember your current settings even if you start a new game without exiting Civ.

Moderator Action: Moved to the Confirmed Bugs forum.

 

[Mercade]

In fact, it's not just the (advanced) setup screen, but there are many more UI elements that don't have a persistent state:

1. The "show queue" checkbox in the city screen.
2. The "Info Panel" at the top left of the screen showing research info, city or unit lists. At any game load you it's empty.
3. The "Toggle Map" showing grid lines etc (assumed, not tested).

It's rather annoying that you have to set these settings each time you start or load a game.

 

[pagh80]

Its a stupid system but here is what you can do:

First go into "set up game"
Here choose leader, map type, map size, difficulty and game speed.
To save these setting for later games you have to press startgame.
Once that is done next time you start a game these settings will be saved.
Sadly there is no way to save the settings in advanced setup.

 

[cf_nz]

FWIW I'll add a few more options I'd like to have become persistent across saves/games.

1. Citizen management (default = hidden).
2. City building display (default = shown).
3. City wonder list (default = shown).

I change these 3 every time.

 

[Petek]

Its a stupid system but here is what you can do:

First go into "set up game"
Here choose leader, map type, map size, difficulty and game speed.
To save these setting for later games you have to press startgame.
Once that is done next time you start a game these settings will be saved.
Sadly there is no way to save the settings in advanced setup.

Thanks for this tip! It works for me and probably explains why players have different defaults that sometimes change.

 

[williamtorres]

Its a stupid system but here is what you can do:

First go into "set up game"
Here choose leader, map type, map size, difficulty and game speed.
To save these setting for later games you have to press startgame.
Once that is done next time you start a game these settings will be saved.
Sadly there is no way to save the settings in advanced setup.

My OS is Vista which, due to the different library structure from 7, may be the reason that this workaround doesn't persist for me.
I tried following the same steps as was used in Civ4 to resolve this problem but that didn't work for me either. I am wondering if it is a Steam related problem or a UAC problem. I will try turning off UAC in the near future and let you know the result

 

[kane65]

Mine wasn't remembering the Civ or anything else in "Setup Game" option. I was able to modify config.ini to get it where I wanted. The settings I wanted remembered were France, Duel Mapsize, Warlord Difficulty (hey I'm new).

In config.ini, [UserSettings] I modified the lines to this:
LastCiv=6
LastMapSize=0
LastDifficulty=2

That was it. As far as settings go, they all start at 0. Hope that makes sense.

 

[kane65]

I posted this in detail but it isn't appearing so if this is a duplicate, sorry. But here's the basics for getting it to remember some of the options in "Setup Game" single player. Go to the config.ini [UserSettings] section. You can change options here and they'll be remembered. Just remember in the config the settings start from 0 not 1. So if I want France to be my default Civ I change LastCiv=6 or if I want it to default to duel map I would have LastMapSize=0. There's no way to get it to remember advanced settings like Quick Combat as far as I can tell so you still have to do them.

 

[Mercade]

Mine wasn't remembering the Civ or anything else in "Setup Game" option. I was able to modify config.ini to get it where I wanted. The settings I wanted remembered were France, Duel Mapsize, Warlord Difficulty (hey I'm new).

In config.ini, [UserSettings] I modified the lines to this:
LastCiv=6
LastMapSize=0
LastDifficulty=2

That was it. As far as settings go, they all start at 0. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for this workaround to at least get your personal defaults set. Clearly it's a bug that it doesn't remember these things automagically to whatever settings you last played on.

 

[williamtorres]

Mine wasn't remembering the Civ or anything else in "Setup Game" option. I was able to modify config.ini to get it where I wanted. The settings I wanted remembered were France, Duel Mapsize, Warlord Difficulty (hey I'm new).

In config.ini, [UserSettings] I modified the lines to this:
LastCiv=6
LastMapSize=0
LastDifficulty=2

That was it. As far as settings go, they all start at 0. Hope that makes sense.

You say you modified these lines? None of these settings appear in my config files.
I checked all 4 files, where are these located on your computer?

Mine: %USERNAME%/Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 5/
Files: config.ini, GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini, GraphicsSettingsDX11.ini, UserSettings.ini

 

[kane65]

Here's my entire config.ini (it's in the location you mentioned)

Spoiler :

[Debugging]

; Set to 1 to enable the fire tuner to connect to the game.
EnableTuner = 0

; Set remark levels (ex. /R0 /R1:Video - means all off except video level 1) (default "/R1"
Remarks = /R1

; Set remark log filename; empty for no remark log
RemarkLog =

; Sets a breakpoint on a specified object allocation order number (debug only).
CrtBreakAllocNum = 0

; Set to 1 to send FRemark output to the tuner
SendRemarksToTuner = 0

; Set to 1 to enable mem tracking when using a mem tracker build
EnableMemTrackerSystem = 0

; Set to 1 to do various embedded memory tracker dumps
DoMemTrackerDumps = 0

; Set to 1 to disable hotloading of objects
DisableHotLoading = 0

; Set to 1 to enable asserts in debug mode
EnableAsserts = 1

; Set to 1 to have loose files override PAK files if the loose file is newer
LooseFilesOverridePAK = 0

; Set to 1 to quiet D3D warning and leak msgs
D3D Mute = 0

; Sub-directory where the game code DLL resides, set to empty string to let the game decide
GameCoreSubDirectory =

[User Settings]

; Set to 1 to enable threaded submission to D3D11
Threaded Submission = 1

; This is capped at runtime to the number of logical processors
MaxSimultaneousThreads = 8

; Set to 1 to activate the debug panel
DebugPanel = 0

; How close you can get (11.0=default, 4.0=debug zoom)
Minimum Zoom Level = 5.000000

; Whether or not to use screen space terrain overlays
Use Screen Space Overlay = 1

; The currently selected steam language
SteamLanguage = english

; The currently selected language.
Language = en_US

; The currently selected spoken language.
AudioLanguage = en_US

; The URL to the Community Hub.
CommunityHubUrl = http://civ5.sake.gamespy.com/SakeStorageServer/FiraxisServices.asmx

; Set to 1 to disable Fall-back Language Support in the Localization System.
DisableFallbackLanguageSupport = 0

[MiniMap]

; Mini-map width.
Width = 320

; Mini-map height.
Height = 190

; Thickness of camera rectangle, in pixels
CameraRectThickness = 10.000000

; If ratio of explored area to visible region size is less than this (on both axes), do not draw camera rect.
CameraRectThreshold = 1.000000

; Extra space, in pixels, to leave on edge of explored region
ExploredRegionGutter = 20.000000

; Alpha value for fog
FogAlpha = 1.000000

[DisableSystems]

; Set to 1 to disable Terrain system
Terrain = 0

; Set to 1 to disable LandmarkSystem system
LandmarkSystem = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Overlay system
Overlay = 0

; Set to 1 to disable OverlayDebug system
OverlayDebug = 1

; Set to 1 to disable Decal system
Decal = 0

; Set to 1 to disable City system
City = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Unit system
Unit = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Forest system
Forest = 0

; Set to 1 to disable River system
River = 0

; Set to 1 to disable LeaderHead system
LeaderHead = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Audio system
Audio = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Combat system
Combat = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Particle system
Particle = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Projectile system
Projectile = 0

; Set to 1 to disable FOW system
FOW = 0

; Set to 1 to disable FluidFOW system
FluidFOW = 0

; Set to 1 to disable YieldIcons system
YieldIcons = 0

; Set to 1 to disable DistanceFog system
DistanceFog = 0

; Set to 1 to disable StrategicView system
StrategicView = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Minimap system
Minimap = 0

; Set to 1 to disable ColorKeyEdit system
ColorKeyEdit = 1

; Set to 1 to disable Waves system
Waves = 0

; Set to 1 to disable Arrows system
Arrows = 0

; Set to 1 to disable MovementPath system
MovementPath = 0

[Debug]

; Controls the threading strategy: (0=default,1=no display lists,2=one DL per command set, 3=split mode, 4=aggregate mode)
ThreadingMode = 0

; Number of commands per diplay list to aim for in SPLIT and AGGREGATE thread modes
TargetJobSize = 100

; Enables stack-trace collection on random number generators and FAutoVariables. Slightly slower and uses more memory
EnableOutOfSyncDebugging = 0

; Set App on Auto-Run
Autorun = 0

; Number of turns to autorun before exiting (0 for no limit)
AutorunTurnLimit = 0

; Enable message logging
MessageLog = 0

; Enable rand event logging
RandLog = 0

; Enable synchronization logging
SynchLog = 0

; Enable AI logging
AILog = 0

; Enable Builder AI logging
BuilderAILog = 0

; Enable Serialization logging
SerializationLog = 0

; Enable Tutorial logging
TutorialLog = 0

; Enable Tutorial debug window
TutorialDebug = 0

; Split AI Logging into separate files for each Player & City
PlayerAndCityAILogSplit = 0

; Overwrite old network and message logs
OverwriteLogs = 1

; Enable the logging system
LoggingEnabled = 0

; upload assert logs and crash dumps to the server
UploadReports = 1

; Delete reports after uploading to the server
MoveReports = 1

; Show combat debugging overlays
CombatDebug = 0

[TextKey Settings]

; Enable triggered sounds from units (3dsmax Note tracks) (default 1)
Enable markered sounds = 1

[Audio]

; Disable sounds from gamecore (also can set via tuner) (default 0)
Disable Sid Sounds = 0

; Enable in-game music (default 1)
Enable music = 1

; Ignore any variation cap settings (default 0) (Sound guys, set this to 1)
Disable audio variation cap = 0

[CONFIG]

; QuickStart - SinglePlayer games only!
QuickStart = 0

; Bandwidth options are modem or broadband
Bandwidth = broadband

; Number of seconds to accept live game list updates from GameSpy (-1 for initial snapshot only, 0 for no live updates
GameUpdateTime = 10

; Number of seconds the end turn timer counts before automatically ending the turn
EndTurnTimerLength = 10

; Random seed for game sync, or '0' for default
SyncRandSeed = 0

; Random seed for map generation, or '0' for default
MapRandSeed = 0

[GAME]

; In-game Alias
Alias = Kane

; Email Address
Email = mgsetzer

; Save Path - relative to working (Civ5) folder
FileName =

; Handicap for quick play
QuickHandicap = HANDICAP_WARLORD

; Blocks players from entering the city screen
CityScreenBlocked = 0

; How many turns between advisors showing up to help you out (0 means never!)
TurnsBetweenAdvisorCounsel = 0

; Allows the player to give right click movement movement orders while the camera is scrolling
AllowRClickMovementWhileScrolling = 0

; Force quick combat animations
QuickCombat = 1

; Game Name
GameName = Kane's Game

; Worldsize options are WORLDSIZE_DUEL/WORLDSIZE_TINY/WORLDSIZE_SMALL/WORLDSIZE_STANDARD/WORLDSIZE_LARGE/WORLDSIZE_HUGE
WorldSize = WORLDSIZE_DUEL

; Climate options are CLIMATE_ARID/CLIMATE_TEMPERATE/CLIMATE_TROPICAL
Climate = CLIMATE_TEMPERATE

; Sealevel options are SEALEVEL_LOW/SEALEVEL_MEDIUM/SEALEVEL_HIGH
SeaLevel = SEALEVEL_MEDIUM

; Era options are ERA_ANCIENT/ERA_CLASSICAL/ERA_MEDIEVAL/ERA_RENAISSANCE/ERA_INDUSTRIAL/ERA_MODERN
Era = ERA_ANCIENT

; GameSpeed options are GAMESPEED_QUICK/GAMESPEED_STANDARD/GAMESPEED_EPIC/GAMESPEED_MARATHON
GameSpeed = GAMESPEED_STANDARD

; Victory Conditions
VictoryConditions = 11111111

; Game Options
GameOptions = EMPTY

; Max number of turns (0 for no turn limit)
MaxTurns = 0

; Allow AI in multiplayer games
EnableMultiplayerAI = 1

; GameType options are singlePlayer/spLoad
GameType = singlePlayer

; Map Script file name
Map = Assets/Maps/Continents.lua

[UserSettings]

; Last Civilization Played
LastCiv = 6

; Last Game Speed Played
LastSpeed = 2

; Last Map Type Played
LastMapScript = Assets\Maps\Pangaea.lua

; Last Map Script Was Random
LastMapScriptRandom = 0

; Last Map Size Played
LastMapSize = 0

; Last Map Size Was Random
LastMapSizeRandom = 0

; Last Map Type Was Earth
LastMapWasEarth = 0

; Last Game Difficulty Played
LastDifficulty = 2

 

[williamtorres]

Here's my entire config.ini (it's in the location you mentioned)

Spoiler :

[Debugging]
[UserSettings]

; Last Civilization Played
LastCiv = 6

; Last Game Speed Played
LastSpeed = 2

; Last Map Type Played
LastMapScript = Assets\Maps\Pangaea.lua

; Last Map Script Was Random
LastMapScriptRandom = 0

; Last Map Size Played
LastMapSize = 0

; Last Map Size Was Random
LastMapSizeRandom = 0

; Last Map Type Was Earth
LastMapWasEarth = 0

; Last Game Difficulty Played
LastDifficulty = 0

Spoiler :

This entire section was missing from the end of my Config file. So I added it and now the settings are being saved. Thanks. I did cross-reference the rest of your file with mine. Only the [User Settings] section was missing.

I had originally installed the game on a different bootable partition, but had to move it. The originally installed config file wasn't deleted during uninstall. When I checked it, the missing section was there. However, the game wasn't being redirected there because even the settings in it were not loading.