Stuttering, Small freezes and framerate Issues

[w1cked313]

You have to either start a new game with the new main_settings. Or you have to play the game with your old profile but main settings modified in My Documents AND to complete the current level (with stutter) and have the next level load before the stutter will go away. The problem fixed is related to saved games, where cache sounds would be "uncached" when loading a save. The new exe fixes this issue, but for it to work you can not load a saved game and get the improvement.

What I do is uninstall the game each time. These are the steps I follow:

- I uninstall the game, delete the amnesia folder in My Documents, I even delete lingering files in the Registry.

- Re install the game through Steam, a main_settings.cfg file isn't generated until I run the game, so I do that, and exit at the profile screen without creating a profile.

- Apply the patch 4, copy, merge, and replace the files and folder in the main machine for pigs folder. If I do this with patch 5, I get stuttering at first run of the game

- Delete the main_settings.cfg file from the My Documents folder

- Run game using settings launcher, it doesn't detect my graphics card so defaults to medium.

- The game will run very smooth. I'll save the game and exit. I can load the save and play smoothly as well, until I restart the computer where everything reverts back to stuttering.

It looks as if after I restart, if reverts some of the settings back to the original in the main_settings.cfg. Max Channels will be back to 64, Streambuffers back to 8.

Is there something I am doing wrong? Should the game be launched from the detect settings launcher every time?