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Originally Posted by Mattymo
You are the man!!! I did that, and the game loaded up 10 times as quick as before. Of course I'm going to have to do that every couple years, but it worked. Thanks so much!
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I did this, and yes the game loads and saves much quicker. And who needs all of those messages?
One additional point. You may want to also delete your message.dat file at the same time. If you don't, then the message.dat file appears to create an equal amount of empty message files as it had before when you start the game. They're empty, so they are not uploading any data, but the game has to address them all upon start up.
Deleting the message.dat file forces the game to create a new one with no message file references. Looks cleaner in the game, too, because you don't see empty message boxes on your home pages.
Now, it should go without saying:
YMMV. So of course back things up first.
One more hint: You may want to look into some of those news\txt files that you may not need either . . .