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Technical Crap: Cleaning your Cache

Discussion in 'BG2: Shadows of Amn (Classic)' started by Big B, Jan 17, 2002.

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    [​IMG] I read something once where someone was giving technical advice to another and they told them to clean out their cache in BG2. What the heck does this mean? How do I know when my cache needs cleaning? And how do I clean it?
     
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    You don't normally need to clean the cache. Sometimes a file in there gets corrupted, causing the game to crash, and deleting it fixes the problem.

    Essentially what the cache is, is a place where recently used files like the last few areas you've been in are kept so that they can be loaded more quickly, especially if you didn't do a full install, and it would have to get the data from the CD otherwise.

    The cache folder is a folder named "cache" under your install directory, and you can delete the files in there if you want without any adverse effects.

    [This message has been edited by Blackthorne TA (edited January 17, 2002).]
     
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    It was recommended to me as an attempted fix for my problem I was having with my game lurching when I was in the first portion of the underdark...

    under your install/cache/data directory, there are *.bif files... these are evidently pulled by the game to allow faster transition of area loading... I deleted these, (after saving copies elsewhere) and it didn't work... I'm chalking my problem up to just a game quirk as it works fine everywhere else.
     
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