October 20, 201510 yr I am thinking about doing a reinstall for FSX-SE but can't find any information on their website as to how it can be done. I have found with addons purchased from them that if you disable it in your Steam account and then remove the scenery it will reinstall it again when you next start the sim and it updates. Can anyone tell me if that works for the whole sim??? Or is there a different or better procedure to use? Thanks Ian
October 20, 201510 yr Yes: just choose delete local content to delete the game. You still own it though, and can reinstall at any time. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
October 20, 201510 yr Commercial Member One of the major pluses of FSX:SE is that you can so easily (re)install it. First of all, uninstall any third party stuff. Steam will not do that for you. In your Steam Library view, simply right click on the title to bring up a context menu; choose 'Delete Local Content...'. Once done, I'd go into the folder where it used to be, and delete anything that's remaining leftover from third party installers. As Devon said, the game will still be in your library, so you can always find it in your Library view, right click on it and choose 'Install Game...' You'll also still have to reinstall any simconnect versions. As someone who's currently reinstalling all my EU Orbx stuff, I really wish that Orbx had Steam installers for everything. I'd love to do a one click install on all that stuff!!! Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
October 21, 201510 yr Author Thanks guys. I have a lot of addons so I'm not going to kid myself that the whole process is going to be easy - but at least now I know how to get started. I appreciate your help Ian
October 21, 201510 yr One of the major pluses of FSX:SE is that you can so easily (re)install it. First of all, uninstall any third party stuff. Steam will not do that for you. In your Steam Library view, simply right click on the title to bring up a context menu; choose 'Delete Local Content...'. Once done, I'd go into the folder where it used to be, and delete anything that's remaining leftover from third party installers. As Devon said, the game will still be in your library, so you can always find it in your Library view, right click on it and choose 'Install Game...' You'll also still have to reinstall any simconnect versions. As someone who's currently reinstalling all my EU Orbx stuff, I really wish that Orbx had Steam installers for everything. I'd love to do a one click install on all that stuff!!! Haha, one click install of ORBX, that's a dream! -Jim Engage, research, inform and make your posts count! -Jim Morvay Origin EON-17SLX - Under the hood: Intel Core i7 7700K at 4.2GHz (Base) 4.6GHz (overclock), nVidia GeForce GTX-1080 Pascal w/8gb vram, 32gb (2x16) Crucial 2400mhz RAM, 3840 x 2160 17.3" IPS w/G-SYNC, Samsung 950 EVO 256GB PCIe m.2 SSD (Primary), Samsung 850 EVO 500gb M.2 (Sim Drive), MS Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit
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