Where EXACTLY is the config file supposed to be?....in the folder of the game...one level up?.....my game can't find it
Check your gamelog, the first part will tell you if/where it found it.
The folders are all relative to the .EXE's location so Characters = "C:\Characters" will be seen as ".\C:\Characters" and thus will not work.
The folder the .EXE is in is ".\" - you do not need this in the folder tag but it will not break it.
The folder above that is "..\" - each time you add one of those, it will look up one folder.
- so "..\..\..\" would be up 3 folders
- any extra "..\" will be ignored - so it you want to force it into the root "C:\" directory use 10 "..\" and any extras will be ignored.
The game first loads ".\config.xml" then "..\config.xml"
Anything in ".\config.xml" gets loaded first to get the defaults included with the game.zip.
It then tries to load "..\config.xml" to get your settings that are shared with any other version of the game in the same "..\" folder.
Everything in "..\config.xml" supercedes any other settings, if you leave something out of "..\config.xml" the defaults stay.
I will add static file paths for the contents eventually but the config.xml will always be either ".\config.xml" or "..\config.xml"