Possible performance improvement with UTF-8 Beta

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Older games, such as Freelancer, uses old function calls for handling file reads and writes, causing incompatibility and problems with modern operating systems. One such issue is the impossibility of saving some of your settings.

The fix for the above is a simple checkbox tick:

Code:

Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Administrative Language Settings -> Change System Locale -> Enable the Beta: worldwide language support

This will fix Windows not parsing your Windows username correctly. This issue happens when your Windows username uses special characters, such as cyrillic, kanji, or latin spécial çharãcters. Having one of these characters in your username would result in an invalid filepath on save, breaking saving. This issue might also occur when any number of parent folders have such special characters.

These issues also causes stuttering due to errors in IO. So, for better performance, enable* the Beta as noted above.

note this is a beta and might cause issues in other programs. If you're not having any issues, I do not recommend using the Beta.

let me know if this helps you.

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