diff --git a/Editor/AGS.Types/RuntimeSetup.cs b/Editor/AGS.Types/RuntimeSetup.cs
index 49999fd8f26..3ee1dda7c3e 100644
--- a/Editor/AGS.Types/RuntimeSetup.cs
+++ b/Editor/AGS.Types/RuntimeSetup.cs
@@ -425,16 +425,8 @@ public void FromXml(XmlNode node)
 
         public RuntimeSetup Clone()
         {
-            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
-            using (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter())
-            {
-                XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
-                this.ToXml(xmlWriter);
-                doc.LoadXml(stringWriter.ToString());
-            }
-
             RuntimeSetup clone = new RuntimeSetup(_gameSettings);
-            clone.FromXml(doc);
+            Utilities.NaiveCopyProperties(this, clone);
             return clone;
         }
 
diff --git a/Editor/AGS.Types/Utilities.cs b/Editor/AGS.Types/Utilities.cs
index 70b6505e71b..ac4311aaca4 100644
--- a/Editor/AGS.Types/Utilities.cs
+++ b/Editor/AGS.Types/Utilities.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Reflection;
-
+using System.Linq;
+
 namespace AGS.Types
 {
     public static class Utilities
@@ -211,5 +212,16 @@ public static Encoding EncodingFromName(string name)
                 return Utilities.UTF8; // UTF-8 w/o BOM
             return Encoding.GetEncoding(name);
         }
+
+        public static void NaiveCopyProperties(object source_obj, object clone)
+        {
+            IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> properties = source_obj.GetType().GetProperties()
+                .Where(f => f.CanWrite && f.CanRead );
+
+            foreach (PropertyInfo prop in properties)
+            {
+                prop.SetValue(clone, prop.GetValue(source_obj));
+            }
+        }
     }
 }