Disappearing or non-working profiles in Vista
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:55 am
I am using Vista (32 bit) and I had some difficulties to get TrackIR to work with Ship Simulator 2008. Some axels were reversed, hot keys did not work, custom profiles (all of them) randomly disappeared from the list of available profiles. Actually when my own Ship Sim profile disappeared, TrackIR worked in the game, but of course my profile settings were not in use.
I noticed that you are still using Program Files folder to save user configurable data. Please, don't do that! It is not allowed in Vista. Move all profiles to %appdata%\NaturalPoint\TrackIR, and do not use %ProgramFiles%\NaturalPoint\TrackIR. If you are trying to write anything to ProgramFiles after program installation, Vista virtualizes that folder. And that seems to be problem here.
Virtualized TrackIR profile folder is located in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR4\Profiles".
I had different profile files in real "C:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\etc" and in the virtualized one. Only after I manually copied all my profile files to both folder, TrackIR started to work properly in Ship Simulator 2008.
Because AppData folder is available in previous Windows versions too, there is no reason to not use it.
I noticed that you are still using Program Files folder to save user configurable data. Please, don't do that! It is not allowed in Vista. Move all profiles to %appdata%\NaturalPoint\TrackIR, and do not use %ProgramFiles%\NaturalPoint\TrackIR. If you are trying to write anything to ProgramFiles after program installation, Vista virtualizes that folder. And that seems to be problem here.
Virtualized TrackIR profile folder is located in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR4\Profiles".
I had different profile files in real "C:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\etc" and in the virtualized one. Only after I manually copied all my profile files to both folder, TrackIR started to work properly in Ship Simulator 2008.
Because AppData folder is available in previous Windows versions too, there is no reason to not use it.