Steam Clean Install Information Thread

[RocketSquid]

Hello everyone!

I am making this thread because I have some questions I need answered, and I think others do too. I hope that this thread will eventually become a general help-and-support thread for using KSP with steam.

So, my first question: Is it possible to make a clean install without deleting and redownloading?

Edit: What I'm going for is having my normal, modded-to-hell-and-back game is the one I access through stream, and the stock I access through a different shortcut. I'm okay with re-installing once.

Edited February 5, 2016 by RocketSquid

[FullMetalMachinist]

As far as I understand it, that's pretty much the definition of 'clean install', so...no? 

Best thing I can think of to avoid re-downloading every time you want a clean install is to download a fresh copy, then right away make a backup copy of that and leave it alone. Then any time you need to start fresh just copy from the clean backup. 

Edited February 5, 2016 by FullMetalMachinist

[worir4]

You can just delete the save folder, the gamedata (apart from SQUAD) and I suppose the settings file.

I think it is just easier to re-download it

[sal_vager]

The only way to be sure is to reinstall.

You could try by delete the following:

settings.cfg

Physics.cfg

partDatabase.cfg

Any folder in GameData other than Squad

Any folder in saves other than training and scenarios

 

The old folders for addons should be empty, never install a mod to those.

Doing this cannot account for any changes to Squad files that were made by addons.

Also, reset your KSP.exe from the 64bit hacked version to the original.