Basically there is no guarantee that the patch will work. It's best to re-download the complete installer each time a patch is released.

While I would do that if you've missed several patches, I'm not going to re-DL for just one patch that's a few MB in size vs a 5GB DL!
In his case, he's several behind so it makes sense to just start clean. But if you have 1.1.1, to re-DL 5GB for 1.1.1.1 seems absurd.



The Jedi Master

Lol, I guess I am very absurd then

Not only do I DL each new fresh install, I install to a new folder as well. Overkill maybe. But a 5GB download is what... 2-3 days of torrenting during the times I am on the PC and use it the least. Like maybe when I'm playing Skyrim or Shogun 2, I turn the torrent on, and that's 2-3 hours worth of downloading

I'm not one of those who wants to have the latest version of the game right the frikkin' hell NOW... I can wait a few days to download, then a few days more to re-config the new version to my old "settings," mostly editing .lua files and such.

I was reading my booklet and I don't think it will use one of my activations because I'm not changing the OS or hardware. Just reinstalling to the same computer.

Don't let them scare ya, Coot, I've patched up since I don't know when (1.1.0.7?) and I don't have any performance issues. Not sure what the heck the other guys are doing when they install patches - the ED team extensively tests the heck out of them. Sure, installing from scratch guarantees a clean install, but not everyone gets a kick out of a reinstall/reconfig process.

To each their own.

Hope to see you up in the virtual skies soon!

What Einstein said may be true, though I prefer going the extra few steps to make sure I get a trouble-free simming experience. I guess this is a habit left over from the Beta stages, wherein a patched game would sometimes display odd behavior but would not recur once a clean install was made.