Need help, somehow Settings.xml does not exist

Melvin Ha

Melvin Ha
(I would like to apologize in advance for my English)

o7 CMDR,

Greetings, I'm fairly new -just started flying few days ago! It has been fun so far, and earlier today I have been playing around with changing HUD color, and now i'm trying to change my FoV setting too. I noticed in a lot of guides and replies that we are supposed to go to AppData\Roaming\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\, but somehow that folder is empty... I ended up directly modifying files in the main installation folder which fortunately works fine.

Unfortunately, I can't find any Settings.xml or DisplaySettings.xml to edit the FoV.
I'm not sure why the folder is empty, or what I might have overlooked, I can't seems to find anyone else with the same problem either, tried googling and searching about in the forum.
I installed the game from Steam, and installed it in my Steam library on drive D.

Would it be possible to just create the file myself? And if so, could someone kindly provide me with a copy-paste of the code?
Thank you in advance for the replies, any help is really appreciated!

EDIT:
answered by Codger,
Codger said:
It's in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics

on my machine anyway.
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UseLessUK

UseLessUK
Melvin Ha said:
(I would like to apologize in advance for my English)

o7 CMDR,

Greetings, I'm fairly new -just started flying few days ago! It has been fun so far, and earlier today I have been playing around with changing HUD color, and now i'm trying to change my FoV setting too. I noticed in a lot of guides and replies that we are supposed to go to AppData\Roaming\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\, but somehow that folder is empty... I ended up directly modifying files in the main installation folder which fortunately works fine.

Unfortunately, I can't find any Settings.xml or DisplaySettings.xml to edit the FoV.
I'm not sure why the folder is empty, or what I might have overlooked, I can't seems to find anyone else with the same problem either, tried googling and searching about in the forum.
I installed the game from Steam, and installed it in my Steam library on drive D.

Would it be possible to just create the file myself? And if so, could someone kindly provide me with a copy-paste of the code?
Thank you in advance for the replies, any help is really appreciated!

EDIT:
answered by Codger,
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If you wish to alter the FoV then why not just use the Graphics options?

Main Menu -> Options ->Graphics -> Field of View (4th option down at least for me using Odyssey)

and if you also have Odyssey there's an On Foot FoV option as well

Oh! and for changing the HUD colours see: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-hud-mod-edhm.557033/
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
UseLessUK said:
If you wish to alter the FoV then why not just use the Graphics options?

Main Menu -> Options ->Graphics -> Field of View (4th option down at least for me using Odyssey)

and if you also have Odyssey there's an On Foot FoV option as well

Oh! and for changing the HUD colours see: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-hud-mod-edhm.557033/
Click to expand...

You can change the FOV in the xml file beyond the range available with the in-game slider. (Or at least that used to be the case, I don't do it any more.)
 

Melvin Ha

Melvin Ha
UseLessUK said:
If you wish to alter the FoV then why not just use the Graphics options?

Main Menu -> Options ->Graphics -> Field of View (4th option down at least for me using Odyssey)

and if you also have Odyssey there's an On Foot FoV option as well

Oh! and for changing the HUD colours see: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-hud-mod-edhm.557033/
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yes! I'm using EDHM now! and it's working much much better!
and yes, as Velkor said the FoV slider ingame is unfortunately insufficient to fulfill my need.


Fnord Velkor said:
You can change the FOV in the xml file beyond the range available with the in-game slider. (Or at least that used to be the case, I don't do it any more.)
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and i'm happy to report that it still indeed works!
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