Graphics setting not being saved

[Oren_m]

I was posting this problem in the tech support section but they have failed to assist me.
The problem is that whenever i try to change the settings from HIGH to any of the 2 other ones, it simply does not save it, i restart the game and it goes back again to HIGH, i tryed anything, from messing with the civ4.ini and the xml's to reinstalling the game several times, i even installed it in it's original path, /program files/.....
What can i do to solve it!?

 

[MrCynical]

I can't find where it stores the graphics levels, but it doesn't seem to be the .ini or the graphicsoptions.xml (which is where I'd logically expect it to be). This xml does however contain things like turning off multi-unit graphics and animation effects. If you turn off these and turn on low res textures that ought to speed your game up a lot. Does anyone know if the graphics levels simply control which of the other in game graphics options are used, or do they have other effects?

 

[Oren_m]

Could the problem have something to do with the fact that my windows user name is written in a none-western font (Hebrew)?