What do you early accesser think: Should one uninstall ACC tonight or tomorrow and do a clean fresh install once the full version is out? Do we have any recommendation from Kunos?
fresh install once full version is out
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no, steam usually is very capable of handling the game files.
What I would think of is to rename (=remove with having backups) the confiuration folders
%localappdata%\AC2
Users\{you}\Documents\Assetto Corsa Competizione
Which will allow ACC to generate everything on up-to-date defaults - some of the defaults have changed during the journey since 0.1, and may affect especially graphics and performance. Ofc. you have to re-setup controls, ffb and so on, but it may be worth the efforts.
What I would think of is to rename (=remove with having backups) the confiuration folders
%localappdata%\AC2
Users\{you}\Documents\Assetto Corsa Competizione
Which will allow ACC to generate everything on up-to-date defaults - some of the defaults have changed during the journey since 0.1, and may affect especially graphics and performance. Ofc. you have to re-setup controls, ffb and so on, but it may be worth the efforts.
that makes sense, so firing up the old ACC one last time tonight, making a couple of screenies, of in-game settings and after shutting it down removing config folders. sounds good. anything else i should do (apart from being very excited about career mode 
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Same for me here in Malaysia. I'm actually thinking of a full reinstall of windows 10...
.Are everyone's rating's going to be reset for 1.0 or will everything we have done so far carry over?
from Aristotelis......
"Here's why we cannot really recommend a specific action.
Theoretically and I repeat again, theoretically the game files are installed by steam eliminating old files and and installing the new files. This action goes 99.9% correctly.
Windows operating system, has specific guidelines for specific folders that an application can go and write, overwrite, modify its own files, necessary for running. For example, ACC writes at "user\documents\Assetto Corsa Competizione" folder and at "user\AppData\Local\AC2". As I said, those folder paths are advised by Windows to be used for any software for security, performance and proper behaviour reasons. The operating systems knows that such folders exists and won't make them write only, protected them or prohibit from the software to change them at will...
Now the above is a simplistic explanation and I'm sure software analysts will jump on me and explain many reasons why this is not exactly correct or why other things might happen. I know, I apologise for this kind of explanation.
Fact is, some times the above folders and their files in them might become corrupt, write only or whatever other condition and the new version of a software won't be able to overwrite them with the new files. As a result you might get a new version of ACC properly installed, but something went wrong and it will still use "old" configuration files and saves from the above folder. Unfortunately, there is no way for us to know when this go wrong, why and how to solve it. Only a manual user elimination (often with admin password request) can solve this issue and in the next ACC run, the software will write new virgin files.
So there isn't a correct answer to this I'm afraid. You can update and usually everything will go as planned... remember, there are thousands out there playing and if the big part of them would have problems, this forum would have exploded. But some people do get errors or problems. They complain here rightfully and together we find a solution.
That is all"
"Here's why we cannot really recommend a specific action.
Theoretically and I repeat again, theoretically the game files are installed by steam eliminating old files and and installing the new files. This action goes 99.9% correctly.
Windows operating system, has specific guidelines for specific folders that an application can go and write, overwrite, modify its own files, necessary for running. For example, ACC writes at "user\documents\Assetto Corsa Competizione" folder and at "user\AppData\Local\AC2". As I said, those folder paths are advised by Windows to be used for any software for security, performance and proper behaviour reasons. The operating systems knows that such folders exists and won't make them write only, protected them or prohibit from the software to change them at will...
Now the above is a simplistic explanation and I'm sure software analysts will jump on me and explain many reasons why this is not exactly correct or why other things might happen. I know, I apologise for this kind of explanation.
Fact is, some times the above folders and their files in them might become corrupt, write only or whatever other condition and the new version of a software won't be able to overwrite them with the new files. As a result you might get a new version of ACC properly installed, but something went wrong and it will still use "old" configuration files and saves from the above folder. Unfortunately, there is no way for us to know when this go wrong, why and how to solve it. Only a manual user elimination (often with admin password request) can solve this issue and in the next ACC run, the software will write new virgin files.
So there isn't a correct answer to this I'm afraid. You can update and usually everything will go as planned... remember, there are thousands out there playing and if the big part of them would have problems, this forum would have exploded. But some people do get errors or problems. They complain here rightfully and together we find a solution.
That is all"
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Just a guess: it will be reset to zero to level the playing field between EA users and new users. As I said: just a guess, but if I were Kunos that is what I'd do.
Ratings will not be reset to ensure that the CP servers will be populated.
Do you have official link for this info?
Its in this thread somewhere. Its worth a read as there is quite abit of info on the ratings systems etc.
https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/multiplayer-rating-1-0.57088/
well, we'll find out today
I am interested to hear how it turns out. I was also thinking of a new install, but having said that, I am having no problems with game currently (I did have one fatal error in replay, but nothing since).
running splendid here, just had the one crash in replay everyone had to go through, rest is super.
