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#1 Shadewolfe

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 12:22 AM

I'm not quite sure where to put this so Imma stick it here

Anyways, I've been trying to increase my FOV for a couple days now and no matter what I do I cant seem to get it to work and it's really frustrating. The file is set up properly, its in the right spot, I've restarted my game multiple times.. No cigar. I've tried downloading some of the premade user.cfgs from the forums and it still doesn't work. Any suggestions?

#2 Garagano

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 01:44 AM

it works for me, so no problem on the game.

what have you done, where is the file, what is in it?

#3 Shadewolfe

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 08:33 PM

I've gotten the .cfg, put it into the Mehcwarrior Online folder. This is the exact directory.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Piranha Games\MechWarrior Online

Inside the .cfg is "cl_fov = 79" and thats it. There's also a system.cfg but I havent touched that.

#4 Tarl Cabot

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 09:01 PM

Are you able to see the extensions of all the files? If you can not see the other files/extensions such as system.cfg, omicron.log, systemoverride.cfg, then the file you should be using, user.cfg.

If you are not able to see the extensions of the other files, then your user.cfg is actually user.cfg.txt

#5 Shadewolfe

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 09:25 PM

View PostTarl Cabot, on 27 May 2015 - 09:01 PM, said:

Are you able to see the extensions of all the files? If you can not see the other files/extensions such as system.cfg, omicron.log, systemoverride.cfg, then the file you should be using, user.cfg.

If you are not able to see the extensions of the other files, then your user.cfg is actually user.cfg.txt

I can. I made sure I have that on, and I also checked the properties of it and it says its a .cfg

#6 Modo44

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 09:57 PM

Contact support. There should be no issues with the user.cfg FoV adjustment.

#7 Goose

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 10:24 PM

What subdirectory is your user.cfg in? You heard the part where you game profile is in your OSs' profile, under "Saved Games," right? "D:\GAMES\Piranha\MechWarrior Online\user.cfg"

Edited by Goose, 31 August 2015 - 12:10 PM.


#8 Shadewolfe

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Posted 27 May 2015 - 11:07 PM

View PostGoose, on 27 May 2015 - 10:24 PM, said:

What subdirectory is your user.cfg in? You heard the part where you game profile is in your OSs' profile, under "Saved Games," right?

I've tried the main folder for MWO and the one in Saved Games and no go for either.

#9 Tarl Cabot

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Posted 28 May 2015 - 06:09 AM

Wait. Do a reinstall of the game but set it to a custom directory, eg c:\games\MWO or such. The base game may be installed in that directory but Windows, since the introduction of Vista, moves the base game to a virtual location (hidden unless you disable those attributes) where majority of the current game settings reside and are used.

So making, altering and saving files outside the gaming environment in the program files folder does not guarantee it will be transferred and used.

Sorry, it did not hit me on where you had the game installed.

c:\users\user-windows name\Appdata (this is a hidden folder)\Local\Piranha Games\MWO or something similar to that.

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 28 May 2015 - 06:10 AM.


#10 happy mech

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Posted 28 May 2015 - 11:40 AM

i have "user.cfg" with this
sys_MaxFPS = 60
cl_fov = 79
d3d10_TripleBuffering = 1
d3d11_TripleBuffering = 1
d3d9_TripleBuffering = 1
gp_default_cockpit_light = 5
sys_budget_videomem = 1812


E:\games\pgi\mwo\user.cfg

if you have it installed on C and in program files, it can have some problems with access rights being a system partition, though not sure it would be a problem here

#11 Ace Kirby

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Posted 28 May 2015 - 10:03 PM

Try creating the user.cfg in another directory outside of both "Program Files *" and "Windows", then copy it to the game's installation directory afterwards, this way you should get an UAC prompt asking for permission.

Otherwise files you create in the system dirs without running in UAC'ed Admin mode will become virtualized, so you may see them in Explorer, but the application itself does not.

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Posted 02 June 2015 - 12:24 PM

And finally FOV's accessible as ingame setting, see the June 2nd Patch Notes.

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Posted 03 June 2015 - 02:37 AM

ye you should use a jenner with 120 FOV.
and be like I AM AN X-WING NAO!
hilarious to run with :D





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