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Deleting prepar3d.cfg

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Hi,

I would like to have my prepar3d.cfg rebuild to see if I can get a slight performance boost. 

Can I just make a backup of the current config file and then delete the old one to have a new fresh prepar3d.cfg created? Just in case something gets wrong...will the backup always bring me back to exactly(!) the same setting/configuration as before?

What about tools like PTA? Do I have to revert back to the original shaders before?

Thanks!

Best regards Andreas 

i mean nothings forbids you to rename the one you have already as prepar3d_BKP or something so...

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To play safe, you would also make a Windows restoration point.

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Thanks for your replies. 

What is most interesting for me is actually --> will the backup always bring me back to exactly(!) the same setting/configuration as before?

 

Not exactly. Read this recent thread

EDIT : I meant the new config file will require to redo some settings. I don't know for the backup file. But as I told you I'm pretty sure that a Windows restore brings all as before.

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1 hour ago, 737Andi said:

Thanks for your replies. 

What is most interesting for me is actually --> will the backup always bring me back to exactly(!) the same setting/configuration as before?

 

Assuming the copy/backup is identical to its original, then yes, it will, is the correct answer. I've never seen it otherwise.

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Many people simply cut the file and place it on their desktop, and then if everything works out with P3D rebuilding the file, they delete the copy on the desktop.  Fast, easy, works!

 

Edited by DaveCT2003

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