Config Failure, lost all my binds...

[what_console]

Hey All,

This is what happened:

I had two configs I guess, one for Impulse, One for Tempest.
One day I crashed out of Tempest whilst playing.

I reload Tempest, and now have a bind set for Impulse.
IE All my Talk keys dont work, my admin binds stopped.
My keys were different.

I had a backup copy of jamp-something.cfg file.
I put that in, and it made no difference.

Question:

Does anyone have a diagnosis of the issue In a Topic post ?
Short of adding all my binds again.
How can I fix this ?

This has happened about 4 times or more to me.

[Turquoise Dragon]

All I can say is to try and re-input them. Dunno what could have caused this.

[Max Rambone]

I've told dudes forever to just make a custom CFG with all their binds in it.

I still have cfgs from when I first started this game.

~archi

[Kerafym]

try opening the different .cfgs and finding which one is proper and renaming that to jampconfig.cfg or whatever the default one is.

either that or guard changed the mod on the server, in which case you'd just have to move the old config into the new folder.

[what_console]

All I can say is to try and re-input them. Dunno what could have caused this.

Hey Mike,

Thanks for replying.

Thats the obvious solution. And after a day, a week, or a month, I'll get around to doing that.
I'll put up with the dud config, until it annoys me enough to re-add the binds.

I could try googling, and searching up on this, reading and sifting, until I find it.
But thats more work than I want to do.
Someone has probably solved this somewhere...

Archi, you did email me stuff about config setup.
But I spend more time playing than tinkering.
and thats entirely my fault.

Kera, I'll look for my configs and report back.

[what_console]

...make a custom CFG with all their binds in it.
~archi

How do I do this ? Probably read your email.
Is there a web link/Post on this

ok, I have two .cfg files in base.

jampconfig.cfg
jaconfig.cfg

I only have a backup copy of jampconfig.cfg, which I've already tried.
jaconfig.cfg has shit in it.

[Max Rambone]

Make a txt file and put anything you normally would in the console....what_console?

Just don't yews slashes.

bind X say...say_team...yews....etc

You can also set your name.

I yews separate cfgs for my names and my game binds.

name "whatever_console"

Save the txt file to bind.cfg or whatever.cfg you want.

In order to make sure you can rename the file properly, make sure you can see extensions for you files.

http://www.fileinfo.com/help/windows_show_extensions

If you yews vista, 7, or whatever, just google "show extensions windows [ur version]"

If you don't do this, you'll end up with a file like "binds.cfg.txt" and it won't work.

Then just make sure that file is in base and "/exec binds.cfg" in the console.

You can also copy shit from the jampconfig for things you might wanna tweak or cvars that you didn't know existed...lol

~archi

[Duo]

yews this method. It'll take you 5-10 minutes, but you'll never have any cfg problems ever again. Here's what you do:

1. Open notepad.
2. Write all the binds you want on separate lines. Like this:

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bind a +moveleft
bind mouse1 +attack
bind g kill
bind k say "you are a shitty noob"
etc
etc
etc...

3. You also want to put your settings in the same file. So in the same way you did the binds, add your settings. Write the word seta first. Everything you write in this file is going to happen every time the game launches from now on, so e.g. if you specify a name, the game will set your name to that every time you start up JA.

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seta cg_drawtimer 1
seta snaps 40
seta name "^1this is my name"
etc

4. Select file > save as... then for the file type, select all file types from the dropdown list. Save as autoexec.cfg in gamedata/base folder.

Every time you start JA, the things in this file will be executed.

[Turky]

autoexec.cfg

[Magyk]

All I can say is to try and re-input them.