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Originally Posted by Dutch_851
Hi Orph,
Did this happen today?
The only reason I'm asking is that I had a similar thing happen, only I didn't uninstall Cliffs of Dover, I uninstalled Ghost Recon. (!?!)
Seriously, the performance of cliffs was a lot smoother when I started it up today. Like they'd sneaked an update patch in without telling us.
Much, much smoother gameplay, and it can't be connected with Ghost Recon. Can it???
Very strange, but a welcome improvement.
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Indeed it did Dutch, though I don't have Ghost Recon on my machine, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to explain your results! Certainly confusing!
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Originally Posted by jimbop
Orpheus, can you please clarify what you mean by reinstall? I.e. do you have a disc or the steam version? If steam, did you restore a backup made after the last steam patch or the original dl? Thanks.
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Apologies jimbop, I should have made that clearer. I have the Steam version. From the way I understand it, Steam downloads and installs (what I assume to be) the standard game files, plus the latest patch and any/all modifications made to those standard files by the patch.
My previous version was an install from.. probably around the time of the second retail patch, if memory serves. That install then had the latest patch (third retail patch) applied over the top when it was released, with the contents of the 1C Softclub folder deleted to ensure no conflicts (just deleted after patch, then 'validate files' or whatever it is in Steam to get the latest versions). That was when my performance went downhill.
This time I deleted the entire game ('Delete Local Content' I think, in Steam/Properties) and the whole 1C folder from My Docs. I then redownloaded the entire thing from Steam again - and that fixed nearly everything. The only files I retained from the previous install were my personal control config (mycontrols.ini) and my weapon loadout config (user.ini). How it would work from a disc install I'm honestly not sure.
Hope that helps!