Lost the main menu? How to get it back.
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 23:39Not sure if this is the best place for this so feel free to move if it necessary mods.
A few warnings before you start:
1) You will almost certainly need to have "show hidden files and folders" enabled on your PC. The way to do this varies between versions of Windows so if you're not sure how to set it, Google for the quoted text and add "in Windows *" where the * is your windows version.
2) You will be editing one or more DAOC files. They're only text ".ini" files but you will be editing them so don't do this if you're not comfortable with it.
3) There is a shorter "for techies" version at the end.
I would recommend you read to the end of the instructions before starting.
Several people I know have managed to close the main menu bar on the UI, only to find that they can't figure out any way in which to get it back. There is a relatively easy way to do so; you'll need to:
- Open your main disk in "My Computer" (or equivalent) which is normally "C:"
- Open the folder "Users"
- Then the folder with your username (for example: "Throdid")
- Next open these folder in order: "AppData", "Roaming", "Electronic Arts", "Dark Age of Camelot"
- Lastly, open "LoTM"
- Now, find the ".ini" file named after the character you need to get the menu bar back for. This is a file name <charname>-12.ini
- Right-click on the file and select "Open". This should open the file in Notepad.
- Click the "Edit" menu at the top of Notepad and click "Find".
- In the popup window, enter the text "Menu" in the text box, then click the "Find" button.
- Click "Find next" until the search matches a row that starts with "MenuBar".
- This is the line you're going to edit. What you will see is a line like this:
Don't worry about what the numbers are. All you're interested in is that there are five of them. You need to edit the middle one from a zero to a one. Once that's done:
- Click the "File" menu at the top of Notepad.
- Click "Save".
- Close Notepad.
You're done. Now all you need to do is launch DAOC and your menu should be back. Don't forget to do this for all of the characters where you've lost the menu.
An alternative: Once you've located the file, you can simply delete it. This will reset all of the UI for that character (sometimes useful if you really want to start again) but it will also have the side effect of re-activating the menu bar.
Quick, more techie, version
Find your character's ".ini" file (in AppData\Roaming\Electronic Arts\Dark Age of Camelot\LotM) and edit it. You'll need to find the line with the "MenuBar" parameter on it and change the third value from zero to one. Save the file, job done.
A few warnings before you start:
1) You will almost certainly need to have "show hidden files and folders" enabled on your PC. The way to do this varies between versions of Windows so if you're not sure how to set it, Google for the quoted text and add "in Windows *" where the * is your windows version.
2) You will be editing one or more DAOC files. They're only text ".ini" files but you will be editing them so don't do this if you're not comfortable with it.
3) There is a shorter "for techies" version at the end.
I would recommend you read to the end of the instructions before starting.
Several people I know have managed to close the main menu bar on the UI, only to find that they can't figure out any way in which to get it back. There is a relatively easy way to do so; you'll need to:
- Open your main disk in "My Computer" (or equivalent) which is normally "C:"
- Open the folder "Users"
- Then the folder with your username (for example: "Throdid")
- Next open these folder in order: "AppData", "Roaming", "Electronic Arts", "Dark Age of Camelot"
- Lastly, open "LoTM"
- Now, find the ".ini" file named after the character you need to get the menu bar back for. This is a file name <charname>-12.ini
- Right-click on the file and select "Open". This should open the file in Notepad.
- Click the "Edit" menu at the top of Notepad and click "Find".
- In the popup window, enter the text "Menu" in the text box, then click the "Find" button.
- Click "Find next" until the search matches a row that starts with "MenuBar".
- This is the line you're going to edit. What you will see is a line like this:
MenuBar=815,1414,0,100,100
Don't worry about what the numbers are. All you're interested in is that there are five of them. You need to edit the middle one from a zero to a one. Once that's done:
- Click the "File" menu at the top of Notepad.
- Click "Save".
- Close Notepad.
You're done. Now all you need to do is launch DAOC and your menu should be back. Don't forget to do this for all of the characters where you've lost the menu.
An alternative: Once you've located the file, you can simply delete it. This will reset all of the UI for that character (sometimes useful if you really want to start again) but it will also have the side effect of re-activating the menu bar.
Quick, more techie, version
Find your character's ".ini" file (in AppData\Roaming\Electronic Arts\Dark Age of Camelot\LotM) and edit it. You'll need to find the line with the "MenuBar" parameter on it and change the third value from zero to one. Save the file, job done.
