Be sure the game files are not read-only.

Also press D after you changed your options to save them as default.

id1/config.cfg is either set read only, or there's an autoexec.cfg overriding it

it's also possible that you don't even have write access to your quake folder for some reason

Do I have to edit the config.cfg or something?

attrib -r <yourquakebase>\id1\config.cfg

bloodbat wrote:

attrib -r <yourquakebase>\id1\config.cfg

Is that a command parameter or are you pointing out the location of the .cfg? I opened the file and see this:

bind "TAB" "+showscores" bind "ENTER" "+jump" bind "ESCAPE" "togglemenu" bind "SPACE" "+jump" bind "+" "sizeup" bind "," "+movel […]
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bind "TAB" "+showscores"
bind "ENTER" "+jump"
bind "ESCAPE" "togglemenu"
bind "SPACE" "+jump"
bind "+" "sizeup"
bind "," "+moveleft"
bind "-" "sizedown"
bind "." "+moveright"
bind "/" "impulse 10"
bind "0" "impulse 0"
etc.

attrib -r removes the read-only flag on a file.

That didn't help. I wrote:
''Z:\>attrib -r c:/dosbox70/quake/data/id1/config.cfg''
Did I wrote something wrong? Note that I renamed my Dosbox -directory to ''dosbox70'' and keep my games there.

MadMonk wrote:

I wrote:
''Z:\>attrib -r c:/dosbox70/quake/data/id1/config.cfg''

I think you would do it after mounting the path as C:\.
You could also navigate to it normally and right-click, then select properties to see if it has any attributes set.

you have to do this on your host operating system.
DOSBox does not support setting file attributes

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:

You could also navigate to it normally and right-click, then select properties to see if it has any attributes set.

That helped, thanks.

This is a Quake problem, not a dosbox problem. Quake is well known not to remember settings and stuff. in your Quake/ID1 directory make a text file and call it autoexec.cfg and put all your settings in there. There's tons of info about Quake on http://quakeone.com on setting up quake.