diff --git a/4J_Input/4J_Input.vcxproj b/4J_Input/4J_Input.vcxproj
index edb9bd2..36a6072 100644
--- a/4J_Input/4J_Input.vcxproj
+++ b/4J_Input/4J_Input.vcxproj
@@ -239,9 +239,9 @@
   <ItemDefinitionGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|x64'">
     <ClCompile>
       <WarningLevel>Level3</WarningLevel>
-      <Optimization>MaxSpeed</Optimization>
+      <Optimization>Full</Optimization>
       <FunctionLevelLinking>true</FunctionLevelLinking>
-      <IntrinsicFunctions>true</IntrinsicFunctions>
+      <IntrinsicFunctions>false</IntrinsicFunctions>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_WINDOWS64;NDEBUG;_LIB;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers/Windows64;../Headers;$(ProjectDir);$(ProjectDir)Windows64\vendor\SDL\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@
       <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
       <MultiProcessorCompilation>true</MultiProcessorCompilation>
       <CompileAs>CompileAsCpp</CompileAs>
+      <FavorSizeOrSpeed>Speed</FavorSizeOrSpeed>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
diff --git a/4J_Profile/4J_Profile.vcxproj b/4J_Profile/4J_Profile.vcxproj
index a641a60..e3822b7 100644
--- a/4J_Profile/4J_Profile.vcxproj
+++ b/4J_Profile/4J_Profile.vcxproj
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers/Windows64;../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <ForcedIncludeFiles>stdafx.h</ForcedIncludeFiles>
-      <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreadedDLL</RuntimeLibrary>
+      <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreadedDebug</RuntimeLibrary>
       <MultiProcessorCompilation>true</MultiProcessorCompilation>
       <MinimalRebuild>false</MinimalRebuild>
     </ClCompile>
@@ -153,15 +153,16 @@
     <ClCompile>
       <WarningLevel>Level3</WarningLevel>
       <PrecompiledHeader>NotUsing</PrecompiledHeader>
-      <Optimization>MaxSpeed</Optimization>
+      <Optimization>Full</Optimization>
       <FunctionLevelLinking>true</FunctionLevelLinking>
-      <IntrinsicFunctions>true</IntrinsicFunctions>
+      <IntrinsicFunctions>false</IntrinsicFunctions>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_WINDOWS64;NDEBUG;_LIB;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers/Windows64;../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <ForcedIncludeFiles>stdafx.h</ForcedIncludeFiles>
       <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
       <MultiProcessorCompilation>true</MultiProcessorCompilation>
+      <FavorSizeOrSpeed>Speed</FavorSizeOrSpeed>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
diff --git a/4J_Profile/Windows64/4J_Profile.cpp b/4J_Profile/Windows64/4J_Profile.cpp
index 4a95c77..6c30087 100644
--- a/4J_Profile/Windows64/4J_Profile.cpp
+++ b/4J_Profile/Windows64/4J_Profile.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,46 @@ SOFTWARE.
 */
 
 #include "4J_Profile.h"
+#include <Windows.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 
 C_4JProfile ProfileManager;
 
+//str1k3r - GetSettings is basically snatched from smartCMD
+void GetSettings(wchar_t *outPath, DWORD size)
+{
+    GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, outPath, size); //str1k3r - unlike smartCMD we use wide so we can handle non english characters
+    wchar_t *lastSlash = wcsrchr(outPath, '\\');
+    if (lastSlash) *(lastSlash + 1) = '\0';
+    wcsncat_s(outPath, size, L"settings.dat", _TRUNCATE);
+}
+
+void C_4JProfile::LoadSettings(void* gs, size_t gsSize)
+{
+	if (!gs || gsSize == 0) return;
+
+	wchar_t settingsPath[MAX_PATH] = {};
+	GetSettings(settingsPath, MAX_PATH);
+
+	FILE *file = NULL;
+	if (_wfopen_s(&file, settingsPath, L"rb") == 0 && file) //str1k3r - fun fact theres a version of fopen_s but for wide :3
+	{
+		fread(gs, 1, gsSize, file);
+		fclose(file);
+	}
+}
+
+void C_4JProfile::SaveSettings(void* gs, size_t gsSize)
+{
+	if (!gs || gsSize == 0) return;
+
+	wchar_t settingsPath[MAX_PATH] = {};
+	GetSettings(settingsPath, MAX_PATH);
+
+	FILE *file = NULL;
+	if (_wfopen_s(&file, settingsPath, L"wb") == 0 && file)
+	{
+		fwrite(gs, 1, gsSize, file);
+		fclose(file);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/4J_Render/4J_Render.vcxproj b/4J_Render/4J_Render.vcxproj
index cd23c4c..9024c05 100644
--- a/4J_Render/4J_Render.vcxproj
+++ b/4J_Render/4J_Render.vcxproj
@@ -187,9 +187,9 @@
     <ClCompile>
       <WarningLevel>Level3</WarningLevel>
       <PrecompiledHeader>NotUsing</PrecompiledHeader>
-      <Optimization>MaxSpeed</Optimization>
+      <Optimization>Full</Optimization>
       <FunctionLevelLinking>true</FunctionLevelLinking>
-      <IntrinsicFunctions>true</IntrinsicFunctions>
+      <IntrinsicFunctions>false</IntrinsicFunctions>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_WINDOWS64;NDEBUG;_LIB;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers/Windows64;../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@
       <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
       <CompileAs>CompileAsCpp</CompileAs>
       <MultiProcessorCompilation>true</MultiProcessorCompilation>
+      <FavorSizeOrSpeed>Speed</FavorSizeOrSpeed>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
diff --git a/4J_Storage/4J_Storage.vcxproj b/4J_Storage/4J_Storage.vcxproj
index 1bdc21c..a0ad35f 100644
--- a/4J_Storage/4J_Storage.vcxproj
+++ b/4J_Storage/4J_Storage.vcxproj
@@ -149,15 +149,16 @@
     <ClCompile>
       <WarningLevel>Level3</WarningLevel>
       <PrecompiledHeader>NotUsing</PrecompiledHeader>
-      <Optimization>MaxSpeed</Optimization>
+      <Optimization>Full</Optimization>
       <FunctionLevelLinking>true</FunctionLevelLinking>
-      <IntrinsicFunctions>true</IntrinsicFunctions>
+      <IntrinsicFunctions>false</IntrinsicFunctions>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_WINDOWS64;NDEBUG;_LIB;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers/Windows64;../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <ForcedIncludeFiles>stdafx.h</ForcedIncludeFiles>
       <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
       <MultiProcessorCompilation>true</MultiProcessorCompilation>
+      <FavorSizeOrSpeed>Speed</FavorSizeOrSpeed>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
diff --git a/4J_XTMS/4J_XTMS.vcxproj b/4J_XTMS/4J_XTMS.vcxproj
index d4838bf..53037d0 100644
--- a/4J_XTMS/4J_XTMS.vcxproj
+++ b/4J_XTMS/4J_XTMS.vcxproj
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <ForcedIncludeFiles>stdafx.h</ForcedIncludeFiles>
-      <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreadedDLL</RuntimeLibrary>
+      <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreadedDebug</RuntimeLibrary>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
@@ -126,14 +126,15 @@
     <ClCompile>
       <WarningLevel>Level3</WarningLevel>
       <PrecompiledHeader>NotUsing</PrecompiledHeader>
-      <Optimization>MaxSpeed</Optimization>
+      <Optimization>Full</Optimization>
       <FunctionLevelLinking>true</FunctionLevelLinking>
-      <IntrinsicFunctions>true</IntrinsicFunctions>
+      <IntrinsicFunctions>false</IntrinsicFunctions>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_WINDOWS64;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>../Headers;$(ProjectDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <ForcedIncludeFiles>stdafx.h</ForcedIncludeFiles>
       <RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
+      <FavorSizeOrSpeed>Speed</FavorSizeOrSpeed>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
diff --git a/Headers/Windows64/4J_Profile.h b/Headers/Windows64/4J_Profile.h
index c8d41f6..92e79e6 100644
--- a/Headers/Windows64/4J_Profile.h
+++ b/Headers/Windows64/4J_Profile.h
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ public:
 	void				ResetProfileProcessState(); // after a sign out from the primary player, call this
 	void				Tick( void );
 
+	// SETTINGS
+	void LoadSettings(void* gs, size_t gsSize);
+	void SaveSettings(void* gs, size_t gsSize);
+
 	// ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
 
 	void				RegisterAward(int iAwardNumber,int iGamerconfigID, eAwardType eType, bool bLeaderboardAffected=false,