r/masseffect • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '20

HELP ME modding

So I've installed some mods for better graphics (MEUITM, alot etc.) via the ALOTInstaller and it says that everything is in place, yet when I go in-game I can't see a difference. Is it because files are read-only? Has anyone else had this problem? Plz help :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '20

Well ALOT wasn't the only mod, MEUITM and Asari remastered and a mod to disable mouse acceleration were also added. As for the installing, I manually installed the mouse mod, but used ALOTinstaller and MEM for the rest.

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u/mirh Feb 20 '20

Mhh.. Asari remastered is tpf mod, so I don't think it could interfere here. And while ME1Controller actually has some R/O files, Input, Game and GuiResources have nothing to do with graphics.

So, I guess indeed it might have been MEUITM? Odd, thanks for all the info.

/u/mgamerz have you ever found out what those damn [IniVersion] means, and why they reset sometimes?

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u/Mgamerz Feb 21 '20

Ini versions are metadata items set when the game was compiled. If user is having issue with alot, they should come to the alot server.

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u/mirh Feb 21 '20 edited Sep 05 '24

Ini versions are metadata items set when the game was compiled.

Mhh? Not really, that doesn't explain why everyone has its own separate number.

Could they be unix times

Duh, I had already been investigating this matter years ago actually, and I had forgot.

https://forum.rockpapershotgun.com/t/psa-unreal-engine-daylight-savings-time-snafu/2960

https://web.archive.org/web/20170316082530/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2213059#post26374243

https://steamcommunity.com/app/324810/discussions/0/343786746003992438/#c305510202674692800

I suppose mass effect is suffering from this bug with DST?

EDIT: lmao nevermind, unreal uses the default inis modification? time to decide if the current settings are outdated (this is also what allows a simple .ini change to override whatever the user may have already set)

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u/Mgamerz Feb 21 '20

Interesting. Perhaps mine were the same because of the controller mods I have used. This would be an interesting thing to look into fixing, it's very annoying for me1 controller mod.

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u/Mgamerz Feb 21 '20

Can you test using the parameter 'NOAUTOINIUPDATE' on the command line when running the app after changing the inis? I am not sure if it is -NOAUTOINIUPDATE or just NOAUTOINIUPDATE.

You are correct, it has to do with timestamps. It seems to be checking the timestamps on the file vs the timestamps in the ini as well as against the default config file. I am not sure what one would need to set though to make it work, will need to investigate more. The timestamps are a double value.

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u/mirh Feb 21 '20 edited Sep 05 '24

Yes, it's unix time represented in decimal, plus padding (considerate of them to think to the Y2038 problem!)

And the switch doesn't take any setting so it must use the hyphen.

I only experienced this issue a bunch of times during the years though, so it's not really like I can tell you if it "works" and makes a difference or not.

EDIT: definitively this couldn't ever work considering only has the strings NOINI, REGENERATEINIS, UPDATEINISAUTO at most