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Question about Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini and Profiles.


LawrenceFB

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Is it just me or does changing profile bring back an older version of Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini. I changed a setting in both these files in ..\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition and those changes were reflected in the .baked and .base, I presume by Vortex.

 

I then changed profiles, did some testing and then changed back. At this point the changes I had made were lost. Looking in AppData\Roaming\Vortex\skyrimse\profiles\g6V9d1vph ( the profile I had returned too) both Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini did not have my changes in them.

 

Anybody else had this problem?

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Do you have "Game Settings" set to YES in those profiles?

 

Because that's probably the cause, also "Save Games" set to YES will make Vortex swap your INI files as well in order to change the "SLocalSavePath=FNVSGM\<Profile Stuff Here>\" path

 

 

I have both 'Save Games' and 'Games Settings' set to yes in all my profiles.

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Do you have "Game Settings" set to YES in those profiles?

 

Because that's probably the cause, also "Save Games" set to YES will make Vortex swap your INI files as well in order to change the "SLocalSavePath=FNVSGM\<Profile Stuff Here>\" path

 

 

I have both 'Save Games' and 'Games Settings' set to yes in all my profiles.

 

 

OK, the unchanged files were inside your Profile folder(s), so you edited the INI files in the C:\users\<Name>\documents\\My Games\Skyrim\ Folder, so it sounds like, when you switch profiles, Vortex is grabbing the unedited ini files from each profile folder

 

 

I 'think" the files you have to change are the INI files inside each Profile Folder

 

It's worth a try

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Do you have "Game Settings" set to YES in those profiles?

 

Because that's probably the cause, also "Save Games" set to YES will make Vortex swap your INI files as well in order to change the "SLocalSavePath=FNVSGM\<Profile Stuff Here>\" path

 

 

I have both 'Save Games' and 'Games Settings' set to yes in all my profiles.

 

 

OK, the unchanged files were inside your Profile folder(s), so you edited the INI files in the C:\users\<Name>\documents\\My Games\Skyrim\ Folder, so it sounds like, when you switch profiles, Vortex is grabbing the unedited ini files from each profile folder

 

 

I 'think" the files you have to change are the INI files inside each Profile Folder

 

It's worth a try

 

 

That does work, but as Vortex updated the .baked and .base files why does it not update the profile as well?

 

I do not see the developers being happy with people changing stuff in AppData unless they tell you to in the Knowledge Base. I could not see anything related to this in the Knowledge Base.

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Do you have "Game Settings" set to YES in those profiles?

 

Because that's probably the cause, also "Save Games" set to YES will make Vortex swap your INI files as well in order to change the "SLocalSavePath=FNVSGM\<Profile Stuff Here>\" path

 

 

I have both 'Save Games' and 'Games Settings' set to yes in all my profiles.

 

 

OK, the unchanged files were inside your Profile folder(s), so you edited the INI files in the C:\users\<Name>\documents\\My Games\Skyrim\ Folder, so it sounds like, when you switch profiles, Vortex is grabbing the unedited ini files from each profile folder

 

 

I 'think" the files you have to change are the INI files inside each Profile Folder

 

It's worth a try

 

 

That does work, but as Vortex updated the .baked and .base files why does it not update the profile as well?

 

I do not see the developers being happy with people changing stuff in AppData unless they tell you to in the Knowledge Base. I could not see anything related to this in the Knowledge Base.

 

 

I would probably send a report on this, it makes sense what you're saying, Vortex should be 'juggling' the appropriate INI files from the profiles.

However, if you don't have any major changes to the ini files, see what shutting off "Manage Game Settings" does

 

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