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This only started happening last night, I’ve been fine using the tool before then. When I try to start up the tool I get the message “file cannot be created when that file already exists.” I noticed in my tf folder my config had been rewritten by an empty cfg folder… I deleted that and the tool started up fine, but after I closed it down I got the same error again.

Quoted from Spike Himself

When you launch pldx (or tf2 from pldx), this is what happens:
– a backup of your config is copied to pldx’s directory
– pldx’s config is copied to your cfg directory (as well as a bunch of other stuff, but that’s irrelevant here)

Upon closing pldx/tf2:
– your backed-up config is put back into your cfg directory

If at any of these steps something goes wrong (ie a file is in use, or tf2 crashed so you couldn’t close it ‘properly’, etc.) it results in files being everywhere they shouldn’t be.

There is no fix, but you could of course always keep a backup of your config outside any tf/pldx directory, and put that back when pldx messes up.

Welcome to using a tool you don’t really need written by someone who can’t really code :)

I don’t really mind that it took my cfg, I just want to get it to start up tf2 with the pldx settings.

Quoted from Spike Himself

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You already provided your own solution.

But as soon as I close the tool and try again I go back to the original problem. :

Hmm I fixed it, I’m still not really sure what was wrong but it works now.. Thanks for the help. :) If it happens again I’ll use your method.

I apologize for being dumb but after I compile the tga’s in vdub do I encode with the pldx tool or edit/render in vegas first?

Sorry to bother anyone, but everytime I use the PLDX tool it deletes my cfg folder and I have to rewrite my autoexec etc. Is this normal? Thanks.