September 13, 20205 yr Hi my brothers, I installed the sim onto an old spindle drive but my brother gave me a SSD, how can I move the sim over without reinstalling the sim? Cheers!
September 13, 20205 yr From a reddit post, Haven't tried it but looks straight forward: I realise I'm a bit late to the party here but I just wanted to clarify how to move the game from one disk to another (this is for the windows store version): Go to add/remove programs, find the game and click 'move', then pick the disk you want to use. This will move the base installation ONLY at this point. Copy and paste your windowsstoregames folder from the old drive to the new location. When you're happy it's copied and you're sure you're ok to continue, delete the old folder and regain your free space. Launch the game. It'll ask you to specify a path to download the files for this 100gb additional content. Browse to your new path and specify the windowsstoregames folder. Click install, it'll check for existing files and within moments you'll be playing the game using your new installation path. Hope this helps someone. Edited September 13, 20205 yr by Richdem Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
September 13, 20205 yr Moderator If you are going to keep the hdd, go to settings Apps, find the simulator click, you should have a move button - click. Not sure this works for steam install Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
September 13, 20205 yr 27 minutes ago, vgbaron said: If you are going to keep the hdd, go to settings Apps, find the simulator click, you should have a move button - click. Not sure this works for steam install With a Steam install, using the Steam move feature, it only moves the relatively small folder in the Steam library. In Steam you can move the big MSFS Packages folder to its new desired location and then uninstall MSFS and reinstall it from within Steam. When it gets to the point of asking where to install the packages, point it at the Packages folder in its new location, and it'll verify the files and run without needing to re-download all 100GB again. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
September 14, 20205 yr Author Thanks guys all done, how can I tell which version is installed, I mean base versus delux etc.
September 14, 20205 yr Author Try this: Go to Marketplace/Official Content inside the game . Find the deluxe and Premium content , see if it says Owned ?. If so then install content.
September 14, 20205 yr Where exactly is the windowstoregame folder? I have 10 folders named Microsoft Windows Store in C\Program Files\Window Apps, but nothing labeled window store games. Gnacino
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