You can ask your friend to create one using preset, if preset also doesn't get created - might just guide him through what you want to set.
Also, reread your first message - it's not meant to create one when you just run it but when you hit `apply` button.
Nevertheless.
This is quite lethal issue for SVM - making values easy to adjust at any point is the core idea of the mod, I highly encourage to fix the issue itself, maybe running it via admin, really no clue what would cause this.
If you have no one to help ya with it - hmu in EmuRC Discord (you can access the link inside launcher or find it in Rules>Team section here on website)