by CC » 09 Jun 2009, 04:51
jenks10s:
This happens sometimes. Probably, your profile was corrupted. I have repaired this before by opening the <profile name>.ini file in Notepad and deleting invalid characters, extra spaces, etc. Sometimes, the sections of the profile will have been repeated, lines will have been jumbled together, or maybe the setting name (part before the = sign) and the setting will have been separated. I deleted the corrupted profile .ini files that I had, so I can't reference these right now. However, you will probably be able to repair your file by creating a new profile (just so that a .ini file for it is created), closing the game, opening the new profile's .ini file in one Notepad window and opening your normal profile's .ini file in another Notepad window. Then, you can just compare the new file with the one named for your normal player, and correct the corrupt file (don't change the settings -- just correct the placement of sections, etc.).
For this reason, I try to keep a backup of my profiles. I think that it is a good idea to backup the profiles directory prior to any update installation.
CC