Chat stuck on disabled?

[PAJS]

Ever since the new update, when Chat by AutoSpy/Roslich was removed from the mod pack (I was using this mod just fine prior to the 14.9 update), my in-game chat is now stuck on disabled, and I have no way of enabling it again. I checked the main game settings and chat is not disabled. But the in-game chat box will not work for me no matter what I try.

 

My thought is I had chat turned off before the 14.9 update, and somehow that just stuck when Chat by Autospy/Roslich was removed?

 

Is this a known issue? I don't see anyone else in forum mentioning this problem.

Edited October 3, 2025 by PAJS

[Aslain]

Never heard of this problem. You may attach logs as in the post signature guide link. Does it happens often or rarely? 

[PAJS]

chat has been disabled for me since 14.9 was released. I can see messages from other players, I just can't type anything. The chat box simply won't allow me to type and it says "Chat Disabled"

 

I tried installing the TTaro Chat mod but that did not solve the problem.  

 

I guess my next step is to remove all mods and see if that works.

 

[Aslain]

It doesn't sound like a mods issue, always try without mods in case of such issue. Let me know if without the mods you also experience this.

 

I know you said so, but show me your screenshot of this, this is mine:

 

 

Ultimately try to reset the game settings (it will also reset mods settings), delete preferences.xml or temporary move away from its folder.

[PAJS]

Running it in safe mode did not fix the issue. Yes, on that screen it is set to ALL PLAYERS

 

Very puzzling.

[Aslain]

Try to repair the game files and preferences.xml, if no help contact the game support.

[PAJS]

Here is one additional strange bit of information.

 

I have two World of Warships accounts on the same PC.

 

I have my main account on Steam and my alt account on the WGC client.

 

I've been running your mod pack on both for years. I just checked my other account (which is a completely separate installation, obviously), and it also has the chat box disabled problem since update 14.9.

 

Is it possible the Chat by Autospy/Roslich mod has locked my chat into disabled mode? Is there something in preferences.xml that I can check? I don't think this is a problem with the game itself since it is happening on both accounts that I have the exact same mods on?

 

I've attached the log files

_Aslains_Installer_CompList.log _Aslains_WoWs_Modpack_Exported_Settings.reg _Aslains_Installer.log python.log

Edited October 3, 2025 by PAJS

[Aslain]

Mods save their settings to preferences.xml, but I don't know if they can lock it like that. Try to delete this file and see, you can keep it in a safe place if you want to restore later.

[PAJS]

I found the problem.

 

There is a battle chat setting in the user_preferences.xml file and this was set to FALSE.

 

Even though my in-game setting was set to ALL PLAYERS.

 

Change it to TRUE fixed the problem.

[PAJS]

Also, once I changed that option to be TRUE, after running the game again, closing it, and checking the user_preferences.xml file again, that option was REMOVED.

 

So it seems it is some sort of remnant from the Chat by Autospy/Roslich mod. I've attached screenshots of the user_preferences.xml file BEFORE and AFTER so you can see.

 

 

[Aslain]

I see, from what I know mods don't do anything in user_preferences.xml so maybe some old mods?