Is it relatively straightforward or do I need to redo my settings? I am building a new computer for MSFS.

You can copy your settings file, UserCfg.opt which for me is in AppDate\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator folder.  I haven't looked in the file to see if it has any specific hardware ID's in it (like FSX used to store the GPU ID and tied some settings like your selected resolution to it).  The only thing I've been unable to find (and I have the Steam version so everything is accessible) and I've looked in all the obvious locations is where it stores custom controller settings.  i.e if you make  your own joystick or keyboard keybind profiles.  All I've been able to find is the default templates and they all have a last modified date of the last patch.  

I just built a new pc and migrated my install. I have the Microsoft store version. YMMV, but I just copied over the msfs folder with the “official” and “community” folders to my new pc and then installed from the ms store. When it loaded after the install and asked for the download destination, I pointed to the folder I’d copied. After that, it had all of my settings (controls, graphics, difficulty) from my old machine. Not sure if that was propagated by my file transfer or, more likely, from the ms store, but it was a nice surprise.

BTW, [email protected] was a big improvement from [email protected], even with a GTX 1080 (waiting to be replaced).  Good luck!

 
Mike

This is great to know. I'm running MSFS on a [email protected]  and just built a 10850K (can't get 10900k anywhere without getting ripped off by paying like $800). Going to migrate my MSFS install from 7700K to 10850K tonight. I'll keep using the Titan XP until 3080 comes out. 

4 hours ago, mkaplan said:

BTW, [email protected] was a big improvement from [email protected], even with a GTX 1080 (waiting to be replaced).  Good luck!

 

26 minutes ago, FlyIce said:

This is great to know. I'm running MSFS on a [email protected]  and just built a 10850K (can't get 10900k anywhere without getting ripped off by paying like $800). Going to migrate my MSFS install from 7700K to 10850K tonight. I'll keep using the Titan XP until 3080 comes out. 

 

I ran into the same issue with finding a 10900k...so I went with the 10700k

2 hours ago, FlyIce said:

Going to migrate my MSFS install from 7700K to 10850K tonight. I'll keep using the Titan XP until 3080 comes out. 

 

Let us know how it goes!  
My 6700K was heavily stressed by MSFS - frames were low thirties, and the 747/787 topped out at 15fps with flight plans loaded. (I know there’s a patch coming...)

The 10900K stays fairly calm. Frames (High-End) are smooth and pretty reasonable, 35-50 on the 1080, regardless of the plane. It’s  clear from the GPU fan and hwinfo that a gpu upgrade will be very helpful. 

X-Plane saw a good bump too, even on Vulkan. Haven’t bothered installing P3Dv5 yet. 

It worked out great. I first tied the account on 10850k with the same MS account of my MSFS purchase. Copied everything from 7700k D:\MSFS folder to 10850K drive D. Run the install from app store and pointed the installer to D:\MSFS. Installation literally took only couple minutes, and I got all settings and controller profiles migrated seamlessly to 10850K. What a breeze.

Under Ultra settings at 4K I'm now 100% GPU limited. With 7700k I always got some long freezes like 10 seconds long time to time, plus severe stuttering when getting close to an airport or sth. All such things are gone. At 4K I got only 20-25fps around NYC though. Changing endering scale to 80% gives me smooth 30fps. Anyway, just waiting for a 3080 or 3090.

I have installed MFS 3 times due to problems with Dev mode. My version is the DVD STANDARD.

What is strange is that after wiping all folders after each uninstall the only way i can get the setting reset to those of a fresh install is by changing the account i use to start the game. It appears to save my settings somewhere in the cloud?

Was also surprised to find out I could start the game using a different MS account from the one I had redeemed it from the Store, although the pc I am installing is always the same - my home desktop.

 

Edited September 12, 20205 yr by jcomm

16 hours ago, carbonbasedlifeform said:

Is it relatively straightforward or do I need to redo my settings? I am building a new computer for MSFS.

Control settings are now saved in the cloud and tied to your MS user so they should migrate to a new PC. They are physically stored on the c drive in Appdata/Local/Packages/MicrosoftFlightSimulator_8....../SystemAppData/wgs under your PC user.

16 minutes ago, SamYeager said:

Control settings are now saved in the cloud and tied to your MS user so they should migrate to a new PC. They are physically stored on the c drive in Appdata/Local/Packages/MicrosoftFlightSimulator_8....../SystemAppData/wgs under your PC user.

Any idea where Steam puts it?  Or more than likely either version if you choose custom install locations?  I can't find a systemappdata/wgs folder (or a systemappdata folder for that matter) in any of the locations where I've found MSFS files.  

 

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator

C:\ProgramData\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator

D:\MS Flightsim packages\Official

 

edit: to be clear, when you choose custom install location for the packages, you don't have any "MicrosoftFlightSimulator_xxxxxx" folder in AppData\Local.  The one I have in ProgramData is empty and dated for the 13th of August so was probably related to the original pre-download I did from the XBox store before I actually bought it on Steam.

Edited September 12, 20205 yr by flyinion