[TEC] Does this game have some kind of cache file?

[leovampire]

never fails that way. But I know that is why the lightning is only working in the single mission layers and not the campaign layers. But the more you look at stuff I swear the more confusing it gets as to what actual controls what and what does what as to how the game loads things from the hard drive.

[Digital_Trucker]

LV, did you once say that you did a complete reinstall of the game in order to try to get lightning to work in the campaign mode? If so, do you remember if you deleted the save folder in "My Documents"? I'm grasping at straws here to see what it is that's causing this behavior by the game.

[leovampire]

but I am thinking that the next time I go into port I am going to do away with all past saves and start with new ones to see if it makes a difference.

[wovik]

My experience is that it can make a difference deleting the SH4 saves root folder and letting SH4 recreate it on the next startup. I have made many small changes trying to get it how I would like it and even loading from an autosave from port doesn't always guarantee the changes will be implemented or worse, it may make a mess of some other aspect of the similation. When I delete the save folder I always get the changes in the game. Sometimes I tweaked too much but you do get them.

[Digital_Trucker]

I just finished going cross-eyed looking at that gaggle of file accesses that the game makes and I can't find anything overly strange (other than it accessing browser cookies and a few other unexplained anomolies having nothing to do with the game). I did notice that it creates some .bin files but it looks like it creates them first before it reads them, so I don't think they would be holding any leftover bits and pieces from a previous save. It's going to be something simple, I'm sure, as it usually is in a like this.

[wovik]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

I just finished going cross-eyed looking at that gaggle of file accesses that the game makes and I can't find anything overly strange (other than it accessing browser cookies and a few other unexplained anomolies having nothing to do with the game). ......

Perhaps this is for internet access for multiplayer?

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by wovik

Perhaps this is for internet access for multiplayer?

Nah, I'm thinking more like marketing strategy since it is fooling with the ubi cookies. Perhaps to give them an idea of what games you are playing of theirs or what types of games to pitch to you when you are on their site. I'm totally guessing here, so don't quote me.

[wovik]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Nah, I'm thinking more like marketing strategy since it is fooling with the ubi cookies. Perhaps to give them an idea of what games you are playing of theirs or what types of games to pitch to you when you are on their site. I'm totally guessing here, so don't quote me.

Yep, your probably correct. It does seem like every game will make an internet access if I don't have the DSL modem disabled.
I shut it down except for Flight Simulator when I'm using it to update the weather.

[leovampire]

you mean the folder in the documents that holds the save's?

[wovik]

Originally Posted by leovampire

you mean the folder in the documents that holds the save's?

Yes, that's what I meant.

[leovampire]

or do you go inside of it and delete everything?