How to save your UI settings without deleting your chat tabs.
Firstly, I want to say that this makes no sense but it does work. It's like magic.
I had logged on my 80 Assassin to find that the map was in the center of my screen. Somehow it had saved that way. I usually keep it small and at the bottom right hand corner of my screen. I put the map back where it belongs and used /camp to log out.
I had previously used the technique posted on the Requiem Nex website to delete all my chat tabs so that I could successfully log out but over time my character had become corrupted again and wouldn't save upon /camp'ing out.
I tried at least 30 times to save my map closed and out of the way over the next few days but it wouldn't work. I kept changing the locaton of the map each time I logged in, in case by some miracle it would save when I logged out.
One day I /camp'ed out and again it couldn't connect to server. I typed in my password again and logged in to check on a fresh level 5 character. When I logged out that character it did connect to the server and save. This was no surprise as I had deleted all chat tabs on this character. I logged back on my level 80 character and the map was no longer in the center of my screen!!
I quickly tried this with my level 80 PoM character putting a timestamp on my Tells tab. /camp'ed out. Couldn't connect. Logged on my level 5. /camp'ed out. Could connect. Logged on my PoM. Saved!
I've got no idea why this works. Somehow it retains the UI info even though it can't connect to the server to save it and saving on another character must save for all characters.
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AOC Settings Save Fix - new utility to fix saving settings
This is for players that have problems with their settings being saved.
I wrote a utility that fixes that Funcom character settings XML files that don't get uploaded properly.
The old method that you use to manually fix this (deleting all your chat tabs one by one) is no longer needed. This utility won't mess up your chat tabs or any other preferences.
The problem with the Funcom Windows.xml file is that it keeps a small history of each chat tab (which also gets sent to Funcom). As players type more and more into the various chat windows, the XML gets too big to get stored on Funcoms servers. This removes the users chat history from the settings files so that they are small enough to be saved once again, and prevent AgeOfConan from overwriting it with their version of it temporarily while it has been cleaned.
To use it,
- start the AOC Settings Save Fix utility, and
- before logging into the game world (from character select screen is fine) press the BEGIN button, and YES to confirm that you're not logged in yet
- Log into your character, and when you're able to look around in game, press the STEP 2 button
- Adjust your bars/windows/settings however you like
- log out - make sure you let the logout timer countdown all the way down without pressing the exit button - and you've fixed one of your characters!
The utility is attached to this post.