Hi,I replaced my graphics card since I installed Flight and after replacement had to reset the graphic setting to my preference. I recently noticed in Flight.cfg the reference to my original card was still there and the new reference on the end. I decided to delete Flight.cfg and let a new one be built without the old reference. When I deleted it much of Flight was set to the original. My control settings were gone, my Missions and Challenges shown as not done, and I had to fly around the balloons and go to the wedding party before I could do much else. I had copied Standard.xml so getting my controls back wasn't a problem. But here's the good part: I still had credit for almost everything else. All my aerocaches were shown as complete, all achievements and awards were still there and all experience points and levels as well as my aircraft and paints. I have the awards for landing at multiple airports but at the same time the number displayed is far less than the award requires. Not a big deal to me.Jim F.

I thought everything would have been attached to your Gamertag. Seems odd that it wouldn't automatically sync everything so you wouldn't have to do certain things over.

Maybe you should email the FLIGHT team at [email protected]

You should have saved a copy of this folder !Users/username/appdata/local/microsoft/flight/Players/**********/Career( It would have also saved your controller settings and last flying situation. )Fred.

Surely though deleting the cfg should not really be necessary upon a change of video card should it? Would leaving the cfg file like that hurt anything?I am curious as I will be changing mine out one day this week probably.Btw I have made a habit of routinely backing up that career folder so I always have a backup just in case.

You can change your display configuration as well. It takes time, but at least it's better than deleting the entire Flight.cfg from your computer. If I doesn't work, at least you'll have a backup.

Dev tip from the beta concerning flight.cfg and career progress.

Tip for people who want to clear out their Flight.cfg without losing their career progress:Instead of deleting the file, remove everything except:[GFWL]ProfileMode=1I haven't confirmed this myself, but please try it out. It should recreate all the other fields, but keep your career.

Remember: always make a backup before reinstall.

You can change your display configuration as well. It takes time, but at least it's better than deleting the entire Flight.cfg from your computer. If I doesn't work, at least you'll have a backup.

Are you talking about manually typing the info in the flight.cfg file?I guess I am still curious though - would it have hurt anything for the OP to have just left his cfg file alone reading as it was?I have never had to change a file like a cfg file on any game/sim upon changing video cards - maybe reset the ingame graphics options yet, but not mess with changing the cfg or ini type files...

I run Flight from two different notebooks (my main rig is for FSX). similar to the above issue, each notebook has separate copies of my career progress. My overall experience is correct on both, and anything unlocked is unlocked on both, but specific missions and challenges have their own scores. In esence, I have to complete each one, and earn each trophy, on each PC. It seems like a design flaw that progress is not fully maintained online with your gamer tag, although that would prevent playing while offline.

Are you talking about manually typing the info in the flight.cfg file?I guess I am still curious though - would it have hurt anything for the OP to have just left his cfg file alone reading as it was?I have never had to change a file like a cfg file on any game/sim upon changing video cards - maybe reset the ingame graphics options yet, but not mess with changing the cfg or ini type files...

Yes I mean manually typing the info into the cfg file. You can also set your graphics and save it again. That may cause FLIGHT to recognize the new graphics card. This is all better than deleting it.If I could upgrade my graphics card, I would, but I bought a new computer in October. Got a GTX 560 Ti. Don't think I need to upgrade it yet.But yes do anything to get FLIGHT to recognize your new graphics card OTHER than deleting a file. I was a beta tester and asked a lot about this stuff.

I run Flight from two different notebooks (my main rig is for FSX). similar to the above issue, each notebook has separate copies of my career progress. My overall experience is correct on both, and anything unlocked is unlocked on both, but specific missions and challenges have their own scores. In esence, I have to complete each one, and earn each trophy, on each PC. It seems like a design flaw that progress is not fully maintained online with your gamer tag, although that would prevent playing while offline.

I have Flight on 2 PC's and my Laptop. I was fed up with redoing all missions and challenges so last weekend I copied the entire career files (only career files) from one PC to the other 2.Now all 3 are synchronized. (No problems so far)If you care to try it:

1. Flight must be turned off.
2. Make a backup of the career files on each PC.
3. Copy the career files from the PC that has the most or better scored missions and challenges.

Good idea. A simple thumb-drive will allow for a quick copy between computers.

I guess it's copy and paste until the devs release Alaska and fix it.

Yes I mean manually typing the info into the cfg file. You can also set your graphics and save it again.But yes do anything to get FLIGHT to recognize your new graphics card OTHER than deleting a file. I was a beta tester and asked a lot about this stuff.

I am still wondering though - as the OP stated in the first post, his updated Flight.cfg file after changing videocards, while still stating the old card, had reference to the new one at the end... so would it have hurt anything, rather than him deleting that file and unfortunately having some of his stuff reset, or even manually changing it's contents if one chooses, leaving it as it was? I would think most of your average users, after changing out a video card would never even bother going in and looking at the contents of this cfg file. If it did make a difference and that old reference really needed to come out, then imho the Flight team would need to get that addressed and changed, for the sake of the average user, ie the target market they are reaching out for. If it does not matter, ie affects nothing, then no big deal.I guess I could find out myself as well, if this ends up being the case for me also when I change my videocard this week and if the same thing occurs to my Flight.cfg file...Thanks for the feedback,