-profile command doesn't work

[Mr Vibrating 0]

wanted to try moving the profile folder to a ramdisk, but the -profile command ain't doing what it ought to...

the wiki article seems out of date, referencing the wrong path ie. "c:\games\armaprofiles\Users\PlayerName " instead of

"documents and settings\user\My Documents\Arma2" or whatever

but more to the point, the -profile command itself appears not to work - i've tried pointing it to another folder, didn't work - Arma loads with no profile and can't load or create one. Tried pointing it to a specific profile in a folder, same result.

i was hoping to see if i could get savegames to reload faster. Might not be any major benefit but i was curious..

so it's no big deal but has anyone got this function to work?

[.kju 3245]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/-profiles

Note the s at the end.

[Mr Vibrating 0]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/-profiles

Note the s at the end.

Yes, 'scuse the missing 's' in the title but i used the command as shown in the wiki... Like i said i read the wiki and tried pointing the command at both a folder and a profile in that folder; arma just loads with no profile instead, and can't create one either.

Have you actually tried the function and used it successfully on the latest release?

The command i'm trying is this:

-profiles="E:\Arma 2\"

where E: is the ramdrive and i've copied the Arma 2 folder from My Documents. But i get the same result using my C: drive too... the command don't seem to work..

[.kju 3245]

It is "-profiles=E:\Arma 2\"

[Mr Vibrating 0]

It is "-profiles=E:\Arma 2\"

Aha! Yes, you're right, thanks very much... :cool:

Only problem is although the game says it's loading the correct profile (the only one there) it seems to be my profile in name only - it's not loading my video settings, keymap etc. and using defaults instead, and none of my editor missions are available in the editor..

? :confused:

[.kju 3245]

Do you use -cfg?

Do you have an arma2oa.cfg in your arma2 folder?

Do you have the users folder in your arma2 folder?

[Mr Vibrating 0]

Hi sorry for delay, yes, the save folder is a full copy of my usual save folder from My Documents, haven't changed anything, the .cfg's there and...

..actually, yes there is a User folder there that wasn't in the original folder, inside is another folder with my user name and inside that is the new default configs it was giving me.

I moved all my stuff into that folder and now it works. Coolio...!

I hadn't noted that new folder appearing but now i get it - using the -profiles command causes Arma to use a different path structure to the default save path, so simply dragging and dropping your save folder to a new location isn't enough, you have to add a couple of parent folders.

Duh. Not that obvious though so thanks very much for the help... :o

(Edit: & BTW, the ramdisk does indeed speed things up quite noticably, a worthwhile use for any unpaged ram (ie. XP32 w/ 4gb+)

Edited January 13, 2012 by Mr Vibrating