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Blank/Empty GameUserSettings.ini [Fix]

By 40-0"null"

Your game won't launch at all, and when attempts are made your computer stops in a full crash until it's turned back on again.

In...

<C>:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\Config\Windows

(hint: the < > symbols should be removed, and whatever is inside them replaced with your Windows Computer's info, like C or John)
(hint: you can instead go to Local Disk, and get as far as you can before clicking on the search bar at the top to go into the hidden AppData folder)
(hint: you can instead get to the hidden folder by pressing Windows+R (or search for the "Run" program) and type %localappdata% into there and hit enter to get to the Local where Pal should be. %appdata% also works but it puts you in Roaming instead of Local, so you need to go up to AppData and choose Local instead)

...here, you will likely find a file called GameUserSettings.ini (might not show .ini for you).
If you right click and hit 'edit', or double click it instead, the file should open in one of your text editors.
If it is blank, add...

[/script/pal.palgamelocalsettings] bRunedBenchMark=True

...to it, and save.
If it isn't blank then you aren't having the exact same issue as me, and should backup by making a copy of that file to somewhere safe before trying this, in which case you can add that to your not blank file how you see fit, or simply make a new text file with the same name with just this in it.

In any case, next time you launch the game your computer won't explode again and you can change settings and enjoy the game!

If not, I will be very confused, because I tested this, and this is the one thing that prevented me from being able to play the game at all.
PS: Feel free to adapt or change this guide so it is more clear/useful for others that have this issue if the fix works for them. I have no way of knowing if it's just me and super unlucky, but I am pretty sure it is specific types of graphics cards that don't play well with Unreal Engine games the majority of the time as this happens to other people on UE games only, not just me.

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Put

[/script/pal.palgamelocalsettings] bRunedBenchMark=True

into your blank

GameUserSettings.ini

located at the magical place on your computer (like in windows it is..)

<C>:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\Config\Windows

My GameUserSettings.ini

[/script/pal.palgamelocalsettings] bRunedBenchMark=True AudioSettings=(Master=0.500000,BGM=1.000000,SE=1.000000,PalVoice=1.000000,HumanVoice=1.000000,Ambient=1.000000,UI=1.000000) GraphicsLevel=None DefaultGraphicsLevel=None bHasAppliedUserSetting=True DedicatedServerName= AntiAliasingType=AAM_None DLSSMode=Performance GraphicsCommonQuality=0 [ScalabilityGroups] sg.ResolutionQuality=100 sg.ViewDistanceQuality=0 sg.AntiAliasingQuality=0 sg.ShadowQuality=0 sg.GlobalIlluminationQuality=0 sg.ReflectionQuality=0 sg.PostProcessQuality=0 sg.TextureQuality=0 sg.EffectsQuality=0 sg.FoliageQuality=0 sg.ShadingQuality=3 [/script/engine.gameusersettings] bUseVSync=False bUseDynamicResolution=False ResolutionSizeX=1366 ResolutionSizeY=768 LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeX=1366 LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeY=768 WindowPosX=-1 WindowPosY=-1 FullscreenMode=1 LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=1 PreferredFullscreenMode=1 Version=5 AudioQualityLevel=0 LastConfirmedAudioQualityLevel=0 FrameRateLimit=60.000000 DesiredScreenWidth=1366 bUseDesiredScreenHeight=False DesiredScreenHeight=768 LastUserConfirmedDesiredScreenWidth=1366 LastUserConfirmedDesiredScreenHeight=768 LastRecommendedScreenWidth=-1.000000 LastRecommendedScreenHeight=-1.000000 LastCPUBenchmarkResult=-1.000000 LastGPUBenchmarkResult=-1.000000 LastGPUBenchmarkMultiplier=1.000000 bUseHDRDisplayOutput=False HDRDisplayOutputNits=1000

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40-0"null" [author] 10 Feb @ 5:18am

https://steamproxy.net/app/1623730/discussions/0/4132683013927677969/?tscn=1707543768#c4203616558105642898
You can find the .ini file on the wiki, thanks Dax!

40-0"null" [author] 22 Jan @ 6:48pm

for the full paste of my personal ini, you'll likely need to remove some things, like the benchmark ones for example, if you are trying to frontload all of it in testing what works.

40-0"null" [author] 21 Jan @ 4:12pm

Idk if it's fixed, but there is a known issue where it takes forever for the game to load in, idk if that's what is happening to you or not. I have heard that people just wait and it eventually loads. So if it takes a long time for the game to get past the black screen and into the main menu, that might be all you have to do. I'd test to see if that is the case first so long as nothing wrong seems to be happening.

Also,
I added my whole file here for reference purposes. Might want to try and tinker and see if it helps generate the rest of what should be in that file (if it hasn't already), and all of the other ini files that should be there too (if they didn't get created already). Again I should stress there is a known issue that keeps the game on a black screen for a long time until the main menu loads, and that you should investigate that as a potential fix first seeing as adding the script to the file caused something different to happen.

oprative.envoy 21 Jan @ 2:16pm

Thank you for this. Located the file and mine was blank as well. Added your script but when I launch the screen is still blank. I do see 60 FPS running in the bottom right corner of the screen but nothing else

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