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Do you also have problem with saving game rules? When I want to save game rules, it works OK, I can play a game, return to the main menu, and use the saved game rules again. However, as soon as I exit the game and relaunch it, there are no saved game rules. That is probably the same issue as with the settings, so I wanted to confirm.
 
Palalane said:
Fr - Pourions nous avoir des screens des étapes a faire, je n'y arrive pas.?

Eng - Could we have screens of the steps to do, I can't.?
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Salut, dans ton explorateur, tu ouvres tes documents, puis paradox interactive puis vic3.
Tu trouvera un fichier pdx.settings, tu l'ouvres (clic droit) avec notepad (bloc note). Il est vide: c'est là tout le problème.
Tu y colles ceci:
{"System":{"language":"l_french"}}
Tu enregistres, tu quittes et tu peux jouer.
Pour l'instant, manip à faire à chaque lancement du jeu.
 
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I_Richelieu_I said:
They actually commented it in the bug reports sticky thread with some steps of "workaround". The problem is that this workaround doesn't work.

So for the moment I personally use ''read only" on pdx_settings.json file, just after game launcher first time started/ File keeps initial language settings all the way. Other settings seems like is not possible to tweek for the moment. Official patch needed...
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I saw that workaround uninstall suggestion they made. And it doesn't work for me either. The settings file is blank. I hope they will acknowledge that they know it doesn't work. If it is a launcher problem, then I hope they will fix it before they finalize the game patch. They seem to patch them separately.
 
A friend send me his setting file, I can play be using it instead of mine in read only option.
So, I guess every option is editable. You just need to guess how to name it. Headphones or Speakers. That kind of things.
Code below :

Code: 
{
    "game":    {
        "autosave":    "five_year",
        "save_on_exit":    false,
        "save_to_cloud":    false,
        "show_nudity":    true,
        "save_file_format":    "zip_binary_all",
        "file_transfer_speed":    "OPTION_HIGH"
    },
    "Graphics":    {
        "shader_quality":    "medium",
        "mapobject_quality":    "medium",
        "terrain_smoothing":    false,
        "animated_portraits":    true,
        "portraits_ssao":    true,
        "bloom_enabled":    true,
        "ssao":    true,
        "depthoffield":    true,
        "refraction_quality":    "high",
        "renderer":    "DX11",
        "display_mode":    "fullscreen",
        "vsync":    true,
        "render_scale":    1,
        "display_index":    "0",
        "setting_framerate_cap":    "off",
        "texture_streaming":    false,
        "texture_streaming_cache":    2048,
        "mesh_lod_bias":    "medium",
        "mesh_lod_fade":    true,
        "shadowmap_resolution":    "2048x2048",
        "texture_quality":    "medium",
        "fullscreen_resolution":    "1920x1080",
        "windowed_resolution":    "1920x1080",
        "device":    "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB",
        "anti_aliasing":    "MSAAx2",
        "portrait_multi_sampling":    "x4",
        "anisotropic_filtering":    "x8",
        "quality":    "medium"
    },
    "Tools":    {
        "map_editor_autosave_interval_minutes":    0,
        "node_editor_drag_pan_mode":    "node_editor_drag_pan_mode_free"
    },
    "interface":    {
        "tooltip_delay":    0.100000,
        "tooltip":    "SETTING_TOOLTIP_MODE_LOCK_ON_TIMER_WIDGET_ANCHOR",
        "tooltip_lock_time":    1.500000,
        "tooltip_unlock_time":    0.250000,
        "tooltip_open_time_when_another_locked":    0.300000
    },
    "Account":    {
        "account_email":    ""
    },
    "notifications":    {
        "banner_timeout":    2
    },
    "System":    {
        "language":    "l_french",
        "scroll_speed":    50,
        "camera_rotation_speed":    50,
        "zoom_speed":    50,
        "mouse_cursor_zoom_mode":    "mouse_cursor_zoom_mode_relative_cursor",
        "editor":    "",
        "editor_postfix":    "",
        "editor_open_file_format":    "",
        "code_editor_open_file_format":    "",
        "log_viewer_open_file_format":    "",
        "screen_edge_scroll_mode":    "screen_edge_scroll_mode_free",
        "gamepad_cursor_speed":    60,
        "gamepad_cursor_speed_modifier":    0.500000,
        "gamepad_cursor_stick":    "left",
        "gamepad_cursor_speed_modifier_axis":    "right_trigger",
        "input_profile":    ""
    },
    "GUI":    {
        "scale":    "1"
    },
    "accessibility":    {
        "color_blind_mode":    ""
    },
    "Audio":    {
        "audio_debug_log_level":    "Disabled",
        "audio_device_profile":    "Headphones",
        "disabled_categories":    "",
        "volume.vca:/MUSIC":    1,
        "volume.vca:/AMBIENT":    1,
        "volume.vca:/UI":    1,
        "volume.vca:/SFX":    1,
        "volume.bus:/":    1
    }
}
 
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Healler3108 said:
You need to check the syntax of your JSON file. Missing or extra commas and brackets, etc. You may use any JSON online linter for check.
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I pasted it directly from the ones available in forums, and I used Notepad++ which highlights bad syntax (missing brackets, etc.).

I'm beginning to think the game completely ignores the folder, not because the user name uses special characters, but because the word "documents" in the file path is written in the local language, using special characters. The read only trick is ineffective because the game doesn't even look in the folder. Reinstalling the launcher does nothing. (If it is a launcher problem, please patch the launcher before the game patch which may take more time.)

My documents path is:

C:\Users\username\OneDrive\ドキュメント\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3

(username is not my real user name, but my user name is in ASCII just like it is)

You can see the "documents" part is in Japanese.

To put it mildly, I'm still BLOWN AWAY that this is even a problem in 2022.

How can a company conceive of selling a game to non-English speaking markets without allowing unicode or whatever non-ASCII characters in file paths? Isn't that basic Windows compatibility? The game requirements on the Steam store do NOT say "English Windows only." Windows chooses to automatically name the documents folder in the language the user chooses on OS installation. That means a majority of users with non-English Windows are affected!

I have the English language kit installed in Windows 11. I have my OS language set to English. But since I initially installed it in Japanese, my document folder is named in Japanese. So, advising people to install the English language kit won't help.

Customers with non-English Windows should not have to search the net to find out they have to take big risks like edit the Windows registry system paths (which could mess up lots of things) to be able to adjust the video, audio, and language settings of one game. I have seen threads on Steam in several languages asking about this, with no response from Paradox.
 
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Armandeus said:
I pasted it directly from the ones available in forums, and I used Notepad++ which highlights bad syntax (missing brackets, etc.).
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But did you adjust setting for your particular system?

E. g., here

"fullscreen_resolution": "1920x1080",
"windowed_resolution": "1920x1080",
"device": "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB"

you have to change to yours system parameters I guess. "Read only" definitely works for me in case of language, but I honestly did not test it with other settings as I uninstalled the game already, I gave up for now.

This thread is on "In Review" status so seems like they are currently searching for the remedy.
 
Armandeus said:
Yes, I was very careful to do that. It made no difference.
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Well, I temporary fixed issue by creating new Windows account, it worked for me
forum.paradoxplaza.com

Launcher Issues Troubleshooting

We noticed that some of you are having issues with the launcher and launching the game in general. Because of that we gathered a couple of tips that should allow you to bypass that issue: Option 1. The launcher can't read the settings file...
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I_Richelieu_I said:
Well, I temporary fixed issue by creating new Windows account, it worked for me
forum.paradoxplaza.com

Launcher Issues Troubleshooting

We noticed that some of you are having issues with the launcher and launching the game in general. Because of that we gathered a couple of tips that should allow you to bypass that issue: Option 1. The launcher can't read the settings file...
forum.paradoxplaza.com forum.paradoxplaza.com
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Good for you. There's a limit to the hurdles I will jump to workaround something that should be fixed as soon as possible. This issue affects everyone not playing in English Windows (not "some of you"), and so it is a big deal.
 
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I had the same problem (have an Ü in my name). I solved the problem in the following temporary reliable way:

1. In the launcher folder (steamapps\common\Victoria 3\launcher) in the launcher-settings.json I changed the value in gameDataPath to C:/temp/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3

2. Then I created a userdir.txt in the game folder (steamapps\common\Victoria 3\game) that simply contains: C:/temp/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3

3. The game then creates the folder in C:/temp/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3, which the game can read and write to.

All settings now survive the restart.
 
Hi,

Thanks to OldWiseJew for his solution which worked for me but I still searched the game files a bit to see if I could find another solution.

Here is another solution :

Prerequisites (useful or not, idk) :
  • I specify that I deleted the file C:\Users\François\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3 then restart the game. If I look, my file pdx_settings.json is empty as before.
  • I also specify that I installed the game from Steam, therefore the game installation file is in : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Victoria 3.
To have only French at each launch of the game I deleted all the config of the other languages in the following yaml file : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Victoria 3\game\localization\languages.yml.

My configuration :

YAML: 
l_french:
 l_english:1 "English"
 l_braz_por:1 "Português do Brasil"
 l_french:1 "Français"
 l_german:1 "Deutsch"
 l_polish:1 "Polski"
 l_russian:1 "Русский"
 l_spanish:1 "Español"
 l_japanese:0 "日本語"
 l_simp_chinese:0 "中文"
 l_korean:0 "한국어"
 l_turkish:0 "Türkçe"

Of course, I still have the problem for the graphics conf (screen sizes, mouse, etc.) but I couldn't find the related conf files.

Just waiting for the patch...

Best regards,
François MENGUY
 
Hope this gets fixed in first big patch, its really annoying to set the language to spanish each time I´m about to open the game, and of course can´t change any graphical settings etc.
 
The problem is still not resolved. I'm back in the game with the new 1.5 update, and my settings keep resetting. There are no non Latin symbols in game settings path.
 
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