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Re: Unable to locate configuration file

Yes, in the old games the "Documents" folder was the standard folder for the "Config" folder.

I thought that the game might have got back to Momm if it had a problem creating the folder in your "BIOGame" folder in the game folder.

Search your PC for the "GamerSettings.ini" file. If you have the original games installed you should have 5 of them.

The two for the original ME2 & ME3 and three for the MELE. (If you have started LE3 already)

Wherever the "GamerSettings.ini" file is, your "Config" folder should be there as well.

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xXTheBingsXx
4 years ago
@holger1405 Yeah already did that, the only GamerSettings.ini files are for the regular ole mass effect games, nothing regarding the legendary edition which makes me wonder if this is a EA desktop subscription sorta thing, similarly to how Microsoft's game pass has their installs, which are sometimes, similarly nebulous.
holger1405
Hero+
4 years ago
@xXTheBingsXx

The files in the "Config" folder are created from the "Coalesced_INT.bin". (or the local equivalents.)

(If you delete the "Config" folder it is just recreated from the settings in the "Coalesced_INT.bin".)

So it is possible that the game reads directly from the"Coalesced_INT.bin" if it can't find a "Config" folder

It is also possible that the EA Play subscription version has a different file structure, I just saw no other reports about the "Config" folder missing, neither here nor on the Nexus.

What about a "BIOWeapon.ini"?
xXTheBingsXx
4 years ago
@holger1405 I do have Coalesced_INT.bin

I also have BIOWeapon, BIOGame and BIOEngine.

Out of curiosity I decided to attempt to create a config folder, in the proper location, and I was told I needed administration permission to do so.

I am now wondering if the issue is, the game cannot create the folder itself. I am going to reinstall the game on another drive, and see if this is the problem.
holger1405
Hero+
4 years ago
@xXTheBingsXx

xXTheBingsXx wrote:
I do have Coalesced_INT.bin

Yeah, it had to be there, without it the game would not work.

Is that "BIOWeapon.ini?"

If yes, in what folder is it?

@xXTheBingsXx wrote:

Out of curiosity I decided to attempt to create a config folder, in the proper location, and I was told I needed administration permission to do so.

I am now wondering if the issue is, the game cannot create the folder itself. I am going to reinstall the game on another drive, and see if this is the problem.

I assumed from the start that some permission isuue is the problem, the "C:\Program Files (x86)" and "C:\Program Files" folder have special protection inside Windows.
(It normally still should work.)
That is why I said it might be possible that the game reads directly from the "Coalesced_INT.bin", or the language variants if you play the game in a different language than English, if it can't find a "Config" folder.

Installing it to another drive could very well solve the problem.
xXTheBingsXx
4 years ago
@holger1405 Yes installing it onto another drive/location seemed to have worked.

Unknown, if the solution is due to it being in another location, or if it any ole reinstall woulda fixed it. If I was a betting man, I'd say it was likely, that the location was the problem.

Thank you.
tamperaturend
1 year ago
start game as admin so the ini can get written
reading the thread made it obvious. thanks guys