Setting not separate

[Deleted51933906User]

The issue I am having is not game specific. I am running Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout New Vegas with Vortex. Often, when I switch from one profile to another, the settings are not unique. For instance, person A wants to play on very easy, person B wants to play on hard. Person A wants the radio turned all the way up, person B wants the radio turned all the way down.

 

However, even though all the profiles that were created were created with separate settings, which is supposed to create unique INI files as I understand it, the settings are all the same. Which means, for instance, when going back and forth between two profiles on Fallout New Vegas, each person has to redo the settings every single time. Gets very annoying, and is not how the software is supposed to work. And we have had the same problem, intermittently, with all three games.

 

Is there something I should do besides just telling the profile to have seperate settings to make sure this works the way it is supposed to every single time?

[HadToRegister]

So, in the PROFILES tab, you have "GAME SETTINGS" set to YES in all the profiles?

[Deleted51933906User]

Yes, all the profiles in question are set to have their own save files, and to have their settings. The save files never link, but the settings often do.

[HadToRegister]

Yes, all the profiles in question are set to have their own save files, and to have their settings. The save files never link, but the settings often do.

 

 

OK, I want to get this straight,

so you created the profiles, then picked each profile, started the game, made the changes to the settings, started a new game, made a save game, for each profile yes?

 

 

Because some people try to make profiles AFTER they have a bunch of savegames, and then copy the savegames to the different profiles

 

 

I'm thinking that the settings that get saved per profile are just the settings that you can change from running the Fallout4Launcher.exe or SkyrimLauncher.exe I.E Resolution, settings for Textures, shadows etc.. and not actual IN GAME settings

[Rattledagger]

Where's a bug with saving of ini-files for different profiles, see https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/Vortex/issues/4956

[Deleted51933906User]

Okay,

 

Took a base profile that we had save games on that we used to test mods. Once we got a stable game with working mods, cloned that profile twice. Set both the new profiles to have their own save games and their own settings. Both profiles have their own save games, one the settings works on, the other the settings does not.

 

[HadToRegister]

At this point I would click on the 3 vertical dots in Vortex next to your Avatar and report it as a bug.
Because the only thing I can think of is that since the profiles are clones, that for whatever reason, the settings are considering both SETTINGS profiles the same while treating the SAVE GAME part of the profiles separately.

[Deleted51933906User]

Thanks for all the help. I'll give it a day or two to see if it works itself out if I can't figure it out I'll report it. Appreciate you sticking with me, never had this issue before and I've been on Vortex since it was first released.