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JackRules1 · 10-29-2009, 11:57 AM

I am not so sure the new patch is bug free. I ended a fictional season the other day and cleaned out all the old news.txt files so that the game would load quicker. I was able to load the game in about 30 seconds, and it ran like a champ. The following day I patched up and load time went to over ten minutes. And in the past two days I have twice crashed to desktop (something that has never happened to me until now). I haven't been doing anything special other than simming games when the crashes occur.

Is there a way to unpatch?

Do I need to uninstall and reinstall? I don't have enough portable disk capacity to save my dynasty.

Thanks for any suggestions/help.

edit: Have now crashed three more times. It actually takes 8.5 minutes to load the game ("Handling Links and Bookmarks" takes the bulk of the time). I am playing less time than I am waiting to load. Unless anyone has a clue I will probably uninstall/reinstall tomorrow, but I am very leary of downloading the patch after the reinstall. I am guessing there is no way to load the previous patch, or uninstall the current patch?

10-29-2009, 11:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
JackRules1 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Durham, NH Posts: 185 Thanked 23x in 16 posts	Problems with new Patch??? I am not so sure the new patch is bug free. I ended a fictional season the other day and cleaned out all the old news.txt files so that the game would load quicker. I was able to load the game in about 30 seconds, and it ran like a champ. The following day I patched up and load time went to over ten minutes. And in the past two days I have twice crashed to desktop (something that has never happened to me until now). I haven't been doing anything special other than simming games when the crashes occur. Is there a way to unpatch? Do I need to uninstall and reinstall? I don't have enough portable disk capacity to save my dynasty. Thanks for any suggestions/help. edit: Have now crashed three more times. It actually takes 8.5 minutes to load the game ("Handling Links and Bookmarks" takes the bulk of the time). I am playing less time than I am waiting to load. Unless anyone has a clue I will probably uninstall/reinstall tomorrow, but I am very leary of downloading the patch after the reinstall. I am guessing there is no way to load the previous patch, or uninstall the current patch? Last edited by JackRules1; 10-29-2009 at 02:02 PM.