Com-Central.net

Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance :: Archived
This is for General Discussions about the IL2 game and expansion packs!

Forum Index › IL2/FB/AEP/Pacific Fighters

Topic Archived

View previous topic :: View next topic

Author

Message

RM_bizkid
Power User

Offline
Joined: Feb 04, 2005
Posts: 240
Location: Ontario, Canada

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:51 pm
Post subject: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance

It is only recently that I was made aware that this sim (and there may be other games or programs also) requires maintenance to clean up cache files that collect over time. IL2 has these left over files in two directories. After manually deleting all of the files in the IL2/paintschemes/net cache and mission/net/cache I was surprised how much faster the game actually ran. Thousands of files were deleted, as I had not done this since the game was installed two years ago This also freed additional disk space.

The next thought, was to automate the process so that it would be cleaned regularly with the rest of the computer.

Many of us have been using a free program called CCleaner
( www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp ) for cleaning the system and applications. The cleaning of IL2 is easy to add in this program by assigning the folders in the options, custom settings, then ticking the custom files in the advanced cleaner section.

By running the cleaner weekly, I will no longer have to look to see how many files are building up in the game.

Uhu_Fledermaus
Aircraft Demolition Expert

Offline
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
Posts: 4369
Location: Blaricum, The Netherlands ~GMT+1

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance
Great tip bizkid ! fled

RM_Phoenix
Power User

Offline
Joined: Feb 04, 2005
Posts: 22
Location: Alberta, Canada

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance
you the man lol works GREAT THX

Chybear
Power User

Offline
Joined: May 22, 2006
Posts: 6

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:32 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance
I wasnt too worried about the 50 meg i had in each of those two places.. But of checking in C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles\PaintSchemes\Cache I found near a gig (935 meg) of extras in there... I think they come in this folder in single player mode as well ...And yes FB runs smoother upon removal of em..Thnx for the hint I freed up over 1.2 gb total WOW !

Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7019
Location: Central Illinois, USA

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance
Great tip and now it's a sticky...

EURO_Talus
Power User

Offline
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
Posts: 93
Location: HMP Wandsworth, Wandsworth, SW18 3HS

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning out IL2/PF to Improve Performance
Deleted 998 files worth almost 500 MB from Paint Schemes NetCache. The Missions/Net/Cache was only 11 MB so I left it alone. Some scary faces in those files, I think I recognized a few from Dateline NBC's recent documentary.

Forum Index › IL2/FB/AEP/Pacific Fighters
Page 1 of 1

All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here. Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum. The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.

Select Language

Login

`±`Recent Visitors

`±`User Info-big

Com-Central.net

Select Language

Login

±Recent Visitors

±User Info-big

`±`Recent Visitors

`±`User Info-big