Delete ubi.wmv! (and clean your goddamn PC..)

[Warhound]

I know this is common knowledge for many but it deserves repeating,
especially for people who have bad performance right now it could make a crucial difference.

...So I decided to dive down to the deck (deep end) today and finally flash my ATI 6950 to a 6970.(NOT recommending it to anyone as you can fatally damage the card)
After making sure everything was stable in Furmark and tweaking the fanprofile to balance temperatures and noise CLOD was booted up and put in a loop running the black death track.
Lo and behold the card wasn't even clocking up to it's old 6950 speeds and stayed at 725core/1250mem with CLOD. After triple checking with MSI Afterburner, GPU-Z and OCCT and seeing them all report the same, then running other games and none of them showing this behaviour(barring an initial scare where CLOD was actually still running in the background) I remembered the evil ubi.wmv. Deleted it and the card clocked up to 880/1375 like always and microstutters and smoothness improved noticeably.

What had happened? Well I let steam check the file integrity before applying this latest alpha and since the game ran ok afterwards it was never a given second thought. But since some cards (ATI ones at least, not sure about Nvidia) don't even clock up partially when launching CLOD it could make a huge difference to other people.
Figure it could even be the cause of these slowdowns some people report when near multiple humancontrolled enemy planes(unlikely..but who knows.)


For the 2nd part of the title...since I was messing about anyway I decided to clean the inside of this PC. It had been almost a year so was long overdue and even though this case has filters the view was horrible.
Result of cleaning it out was a massive drop of 10°C under load on the GPU, ~5°C on the CPU and a much much quieter PC.
Beware, horror past this point...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16366755/DSC00043.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16366755/DSC00045.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16366755/DSC00047.JPG


That's my little bedtime story for tonight, hope it helps someone.


edit : how to actually delete the ubi file..
go to " \\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\parts\core\GUI\ " and delete the file named logo.wmv . That's it!

[Lobster]

Hi.

What is a ubi.wmv ? and can you give instruction on deleting it. not heard of a ubi.wmv before.

Regards S

[SQB]

Originally Posted by Lobster

Hi.

What is a ubi.wmv ? and can you give instruction on deleting it. not heard of a ubi.wmv before.

Regards S

Sure, navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\parts\core\GUI" then delete the file called ubi.wmv. It's that video you get when you open the game, the one that shows the ubisoft logo. For some reason it kills graphics cards, often misleading them into thinking the game isn't running.

[Force10]

It just borders on riduculous that this day one issue has not been fixed yet. Do they seriously not have the chops to write this darn logo out of the code?

Nice of you to post it again Warhound, it's worth reminding folks every now and then since 1c will not fix it.

[vnvv_stea]

Hi All,


Has anyone try out this with a NVidia card?

BR

[Tone71]

Thanks! I had removed the logo.wmv previously but running a file integrity check in Steam since then had restored it. Always worth checking this one people.

[SQB]

Originally Posted by Force10

It just borders on riduculous that this day one issue has not been fixed yet. Do they seriously not have the chops to write this darn logo out of the code?

Nice of you to post it again Warhound, it's worth reminding folks every now and then since 1c will not fix it.

They can't remove it, it's a requirement by Ubisoft.