Does full reinstall not simply mean client, content and scenery installers and in that case you don't need to reinstall everything, apart from add-ons that overwrite content like FTX Global. At least that's what I did the last few times, even though most changes were in the client.

1 minute ago, jgoggi said:

But what about all default textures replaced by the various ORBX Global, Vector, etc.? They will all need to be reinstalled...

the hard way I am afraid, and one at a time...

 

I really hope that a full reinstall means reinstalling the client only... definitely not looking forward to a clean wipe and reinstall. Especially for those of us with a massive amount of add-ons.

4 hours ago, greggerm said:

device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb
deviceHigh=c:\windows\command\ansi.sys
 

Falcon AT required 600k free or it would not run. Kids these days have it easy  .

 

 

38 minutes ago, captain420 said:

Full install? I really hope this isn't true.. I really don't want to reinstall all my 3rd party add-ons and reconfigure everything again. Sigh...

 

Luckily for me I am rather new to P3D v4 and only have 4 sceneries installed for now. I do have lots of AI installed but re-installing that will be easy.

45 minutes ago, captain420 said:

I really hope that a full reinstall means reinstalling the client only... definitely not looking forward to a clean wipe and reinstall. Especially for those of us with a massive amount of add-ons.

Hope so too Holycow! please no full reinstall such a pain the butt.

if its a reinstall of the scenery, what happens to the aerosoft stuff sitting in the ecosystem folder ?

I cannot imagine that a full, clean reinstall will be mandatory.  Given that they have specifically switched to a modular system of installation, it would therefore make sense that you still have the option to only install the Client if that's what you want - you might just lose the benefits of some of the other fixes they may have made.

I'm surprised that no-one has been able to confirm or deny anything about a changelog up to this point.   However, I do sense that we are going to be very pleased with whatever these changes are.

 

 

The idea with seperate installers was that we did not have to do a full reinstall anymore in the same main version...

I will back up several directories like Texture, Autogen , Scenery/World/Texture , Scenery/Global and copy them back afterwards... 

We'll see... a full re-install is a full re-install. Otherwise it would be the default upgrade path.

But nothing's been confirmed yet.

2 minutes ago, tooting said:

if its a reinstall of the scenery, what happens to the aerosoft stuff sitting in the ecosystem folder ?

Basically nothing. However, you would need to add it newly to the scenery.cfg after updating. Should not be a big thing. To be absolutely sure, I would first move the Ecosystem-Folder to another drive (backup) and then back.

@ErichB: in contrary to you, I am pretty sure that it will need a full install to really benefit from all the updates. If they for example also improved their add-on.xml logic, updating only the client might lead to some unwanted side effects later...

Just now, GSalden said:

I will back up several directories like Texture, Autogen , Scenery/World/Texture , Scenery/Global and copy them back afterwards... 

Personally I would avoid this. If there're changes inside those folders, it would/could mess up your installation, leading to potential unstability. If a full re-install is required, there's only one way, I'm afraid.

6 minutes ago, AnkH said:

@ErichB: in contrary to you, I am pretty sure that it will need a full install to really benefit from all the updates. If they for example also improved their add-on.xml logic, updating only the client might lead to some unwanted side effects later...

Well, quite possibly.  In fact, IIRC, I think we had to do exactly the same thing with one of the incremental updates for V3.

I'm not totally averse to a full reinstall, although as this weekend is the CTP event, I may wait until next week to install anything - unless the changes are that earth shattering.  There are currently no show stoppers for me in the 4.0 version.

 

I think 4.1 will bring alot of 'I want' moments as opposed to 'I need'

I think I'm the most extreme one. I did a full format to my pc. Was also experiencing a .NET problem that  would take more time to fix -if I'd fix- without a format. As all my crucial files are in the cloud and external drives, it takes max 1 hour to install everything I need in Windows. Then, install P3D v4.1 when released and the add-ons one by one as they become compatible. You would need to re-install them either way if you update P3D today. Only time consuming is the airports/scenery installations. ORBX makes it easy though, just click and wait. For the airports, I'll follow the simple rule to install the two airports I fly every time. If you have them installed using the add-ons.xml method, then its even faster. They will be already there. I think a full install is not that bad.

7 minutes ago, Daedalus said:

 I'll follow the simple rule to install the two airports I fly every time. If you have them installed using the add-ons.xml method, then its even faster. They will be already there. I think a full install is not that bad.

I also used to suffer from the 'I need everything installed otherwise I can't fly' syndrome.  I do the same as you now - just installing the basics at first and add airports as and when I choose to fly to them.   No stress, no fuss.