#902 Freeze and do not start

[Olivier Mekdjian]

Hello
I have been playing colossus for decades and yesterday, I played it on a second screen while watching a movie on the main screen ok my laptop PC. I put every Colossus small windows to the second screen (that is larger). At the end of the movie, I disabled the screen of my PC to play on the larger screen, as I usually do... and it crashed...

I tried :
- to play with two screens,
- uninstall java, used ccleaner,
- dl the game (.rar) again ...
Nothing works. Colossus always remembers the prefered game I am playing (1 human and 2 computers) and places the windows at the same place.

How can I reset the game ?
Thanks a lot for your help...
Olivier

[Olivier Mekdjian]

My pc Asus runs Win 8.1, SSD 256, i7.
Thanks again !

[Olivier Mekdjian]

I managed to make it work again... and it is strange : I had to :
- change my name (no more Olivier but anything else !)
- put the main window into full screen

[Clemens Katzer]

Colossus stores for each player the preferences in a file (in directory .colossus) in your home directory, in a file containing the player name. Thus when you play with different name you get different settings.

[clemens@mylaptop .colossus]$ ll
total 16
-rw-rw-r--. 1 clemens clemens 2051 Sep 25 2013 Colossus-admin.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 clemens clemens 2279 Mar 18 08:34 Colossus-clemens.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 clemens clemens 481 Aug 1 13:36 Colossus-server.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 clemens clemens 568 Aug 1 13:38 Colossus-webclient.cfg
[clemens@mylaptop .colossus]$ pwd
/home/clemens/.colossus

If you delete that file e.g. "colossus-olivier.cfg", all client/player related settings will be reset to defaults. You can also edit the file with a text editor and delete whatever lines you want, specifically those with coordinates (....Location\ X etc.).

As you see above, I play regularly as either clemens or admin; the files "-server" and "-webclient" are special (the one holds things for the main startup dialog (how many players, their types and names and such) and the other the preferences/values for the web client (login name and password etc.).
[So you could look up there also your Colossus Public Game Server password, e.g. if you'd have forgotten it and want to play on some other computer. Ah well, not relevant any more since I added the "display password" toggle "recently" :-]

Under Windows that home directory is (was?) often
C:\Documents and Settings\YOURLOGINNAME.colossus

It is displayed also under Help => About .

[Olivier Mekdjian]

Dear Clemens
I do thank you for your complete answer. I now understand the hint !
Have a nice time
Olivier