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Copy the message you are seeing here please, so I can understand which message is that.

We try to keep all messages as simple as possible, so that one does not need to be a tech-guy to understand them

 

I think I understood what message you are seeing.
That's not a bug, only an informative message
A Clean Install is unnecessary.

The message is about the userfolder, and is linking you to this thread that explains everything:
https://www.beamng.com/threads/if-you-cannot-locate-some-files-after-updating-read-this.62093/
I believe we wrote this pretty clearly, but I will try to explain it in even more simpler terms.

In short, the game uses two folders:
- The game folder (where the game is installed)
- The user folder (where your settings, mods, configurations are saved)

The user folder is usually locatd in your Windows' Documents folder.
But on 0.15 there was a bug causing the user folder to be created in the wrong place, in C:\BeamNG.drive_userpath
We fixed this recently.

So change is that all your custom files are in the old location, while the game is now using the correct location.

That's why you are seeing that message.
If you want your old settings, mods, configurations back, you need to go to the old folder and move the files to the new one.



Slow loading is normal. After every update, your cache gets build again.
This happens the first time you load a vehicle or level, especially on mods.
The second and future times you load the same vehicle and level, it will be faster, as the cache is already existing.

 

No problem.

Let's clarify:
You will not find any folder literally named 'userprofile' or 'userpath'.

%userprofile% is your Windows account name: we don't know what's called, so that's a generic way to call it. For example if my Windows account name is 'Coconut', my Documents folder is actually this path: C:\Users\Coconut\Documents
%userpath% is simply the folder that is by default located in 'MyDocuments/BeamNG.drive' (aka for ease, userpath.)

The userpath contains your settings, mods, etc.

Have you checked if you have this folder?
C:\BeamNG.drive_userpath
If yes, that's was your userpath in 0.15. Your settings, mods were being saved there (due to a bug!)

To get all that stuff back, simply open that folder, and copy all its content to the 'MyDocuments/BeamNG.drive' one, which is the actual correct location.