Please stop turning these off as default

AC Devs and Co

Can I ask. please can you stop turning these off with every update, as people only go in and change them.

[AC_APPS]
ENABLE_DEV_APPS=0 (Please make 1 as default)
SCALE_STEP=0.1

[CAMERA]
ALLOW_FREE_CAMERA=0 (Please make this 1 as default)

Kind Regards

Shaun

 

The default game state for all types of customers is with those options disabled. Which means they don't want a new player to the game to see everywhere in the track map with free camera or to have all those complicated apps for everyone. Ini files are for advanced users.

 

Even better would be if these kind of settings were accessible in the launcher and saved in the user profile. But I suppose they're counting as unsupported 'enable-on-your-own-risk' features?

 

Indeed. But there's no reason to turn them off with each update if the user had set them to 'on' before.

 

It is in this launcher
https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/i...lternative-launcher.33824/page-38#post-791153

 

exactly.. we don't want to be submerged in bug reports about dev app X not being pretty, going out of screen, or doing anything wrong... nor reports of spectator in row T seat 58 in grand stand 3 at Monza having unrealistically ugly tshirt.

So, sorry... cant do.

 

Sure, keep them defaulted to OFF for a new install or a new user. But surely if you turn them ON, you have to do so in the .ini, so you meant to do it, and therefore could easily stay ON with each update?

 

Well, I'm guessing the patch process just replaces all files that change with the patch to avoid issues so any edits are obviously gone.

 

i would be nice to have those files renamed before overwritten, some people usually make some changes and don't have backups or can't remember all settings as dialed.

 

Uh, certainly not …

 

Well, then make backups. I'm not Lord Kunos, but I suspect that the reason they don't do this is that these files are changing and sometimes the changes are necessary.
So if you'd start up AC with incorrect changes, it might not start (or something else bad happens) and people start complaining.

After an update AC should always be in a state where it can start without issues.
If that is the case, then you can start by changing things and hopefully AC will keep working.

A good compromise might be priority files. We have this system for Linux distributions and it works very well.
The idea is that there is a file (e.g. for dev apps system/cfg/assetto_corsa.ini) in the AC folder which is and remains original and can be overwritten as the game updates.
In your documents/AC folder, you can create an empty file cfg/user/dev-apps.ini (name free) where you enter:

Code:

BASE = system/cfg/assetto_corsa.ini
[AC_APPS]
ENABLE_DEV_APPS=1

AC would then read the files in cfg/user, know from the first line that this belongs to system/cfg/assetto_corsa.ini and behave as if this file was modified such that dev apps are now enabled.
Thus you would get this setting changed without having to modify the file anymore, but the file will be updated as normal.

Of course, things could still go wrong, if you changed something which you shouldn't change or which was modified in an update, but it's much less likely.
(Also in some cases AC might notify you if there is an inappropriate or dangerous setting.)

 

I have a suggestion:
In 1st lines of the file, I would put a new line:

[ASSETTO_CORSA]
CUSTOMIZED=1 ; 0=overwrite the file with every update, 1= do NOT overwrite it!
SLEEP_TIME=-1
WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=0
SIMULATION_VALUE=0 ; increase this for more simulation value
--

So when you do the install, it can be checked for this piece of code!
I hate that changing every single time too.

 

I don't think steam checks a file's parameters, does it?

 

I guess its not possible to fix it by making the file read only?

 

Why would you want to do that when patches change things/add parameters?

 

The thread is because he doesnt want things to change and how often does it add parameters? If he is using a wheel the last one wouldnt have changed anything anyway. But ok, it was maybe an bad idea and I should have kept it to myself.