keipra

This is super old but I hope it helps someone else out in the future. I experienced, and fixed (worked around), this problem the other day. My audio device name had an apostrophe in it. When the game writes the config file out on save it does not properly escape it so you end up with a line like this: The apostrophe is used for both quoting the value and in the name itself. This breaks the config file so it can't be loaded on the next restart and leads to it getting replaced by the default config. You could edit the settings file to change the quoting/escaping but the next time you edit your config file it'll just break. I was able to perform a registry edit instead to change the device name from "I'm Fulla Schiit" to "I am Fulla Schiit". Once I relaunched the game and fixed up my settings everything was fine. To do this you'll want to identify the offending device and characters (this will take some trial and error, but it's almost certainly going to be an apostrophe in a device name causing the problem). After you need to open up device manager, find the device, open its properties, go to the details view (probably a tab) and then find the Driver Key property and copy it. This will be a string like: Next, open up the registry editor (regedit) and perform a find for that value. You'll most likely find it under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USB, Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\HID, or Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\SWD. Once you do you'll be focused on a value named "Driver". You should see another value named "Friendly Name". Edit that value and remove the offending character. You will then probably need to go back to device manager and perform Action>Scan For Hardware Changes. The name change should now be reflected in your system.