CyberOcelot Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hey Guys,I'm hoping someone can help me? I tried for months to get my ideal modded Skyrim working. I finally achieved that goal. But, when I updated my Video Card's driver, and then attempted to boot the game via SKSE, I was greeted with a pop up (as if I used the launcher) that it was going to set up the best video settings for my game. This, of course, means that my ini was reset. The question I have is this...How can I avoid later driver updates from messing up my game? Thanks in advance for your insights! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThyHarrowing Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 A driver switch is going to do what it has to do so the only way that I can think of to circumvent the issue of Skyrim thinking it needs to adjust to the new drivers by auto-detecting new settings, as it did, is to disable the Skyrim launcher from functioning at all so it can't get to that step. Unfortunately, that is just a theoretical way to avoid the issue and I am not sure how to do it. Forgive me for diverting from your original question but I am going to use this as an opportunity to deliver a lesson: always, always, always, backup your game and all related files in your documents folder (saves, skyrim.ini, skyrimprefs.ini, etc.) both the vanilla/default versions of them (to be safe) and, especially, your ideal versions of them so when things go wrong, which they inevitably will at some point during modding, you have them safe and sound elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThyHarrowing Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Another possible solution would be to set the INIs to "read-only" status in their properties menu once you have them changed to your preferred settings so that even if Skyrim tries to auto-detect new settings for the new drivers it can't change the INI files. In my experience, even when Skyrim auto-detects new settings it doesn't revert my INIs it just changes the settings that the launcher is responsible for which is basically texture quality, AA, AF, view distances, and resolution if I remember correctly off the top of my head. The rest of my INI tweaks remain untouched. Was that not the case for yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberOcelot Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 On 4/4/2014 at 8:32 PM, ThyHarrowing said: Another possible solution would be to set the INIs to "read-only" status in their properties menu once you have them changed to your preferred settings so that even if Skyrim tries to auto-detect new settings for the new drivers it can't change the INI files. In my experience, even when Skyrim auto-detects new settings it doesn't revert my INIs it just changes the settings that the launcher is responsible for which is basically texture quality, AA, AF, view distances, and resolution if I remember correctly off the top of my head. The rest of my INI tweaks remain untouched. Was that not the case for yours? It's possible. Truth be told, I'm relatively new so I'm still in the trial & error phase. I finally had a stable Skyrim going and then a driver update completely destabilized the game. Here's the strange part... I had the c drive inis backed up. So I copy/paste the back ups, tried to boot the game, and immediately got the same pop up as if it was reseting the inis again. It basically wouldn't let me use the back ups without restoring to default. Does this not happen to others who update and use ENBs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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