To finally do a complete fresh reinstall of MSFS2020 on a fresh bigger SSD?  or should i wait...  next update coming up need to make plans 

Thoughts?

Steve

Edited November 17, 20205 yr by sluihn
none

Well. Never a good time. Or any time. Since I bought an SSD for msfs I did multiple re-installs. As I am doing as we speak since there were too many CTDs recently with a black screen during game start so I figured I better pull the plug and try all over again. Sometimes I feel that my aged system stumbles when decompressing and writing all those GBs and a smal hickup causes some file errors so a re-install is best

Steve,

I have just done an upgrade to a 1TB SSD and did so with great trepidation, given the myriad problems some people have endured with this new platform. Fortunately, I have had no such problems, but, I have to say I was greatly affeared (love that expression) before going through the process of a new download.  Initially, I tried to clone the original installation from my 256GB ssd but that proved to be a spectacular failure.

I eventually went through the long process of download and install. I then had to reinstall my previously zipped and saved Community folder. That, in my opinion is one of the most important things to include with a re-install. ... zip and save that folder.  Having done that I then had to re-install my modified aircraft etc (Robert Youngs Bonanza G36 and WorkingTitles G1000, G3000 and the CJ4)  Please note that just copying those mods to the community folder does not work (for me) and all had to be reinstalled.

Then, I still found that I had problems which were resolved by re-downloading the folders of the Contents Manager.

Quite a lengthy procedure, but definitely worth it and I am again trouble free. 

I had to undergo the same procedure when during the last update, I had a power failure and everything just locked up. 

I am very happy to say that I am again enjoying a trouble free (minor bugs excluded) MSFS.

So, YES, I would very much recommend the upgrade to a bigger SSD particularly with the Japan, USA world updates and the very real possibility of other major world updates to come.

Regards

Tony 

Running on older C drive ssd (boot drive) no issues using default install path (would not do that again however)

Thanks for the responses...  my thinking is we have version 1 now with all the updates.  There has to be a lot of bad coding that still resides in this version we are all using now, when should we treat an update as a complete reinstall hopefully whisking away the cobwebs and starting fresh.   Great advice on the Community files, I would also suggest to use this awesome mod file input and retrieve app MSFS Addons Linker which makes clearing community folder easy before running updates in Flight Sim.  So when is it going to be a good time to start fresh.   Unfortunately the 1gig drive I am referring to currently hosts another flight sim but seriously have not been back since flying msfs2020.  So I think with next update I’ll try a fresh approach.

Just to put some perspective on this, there may have been something like one million downloads of MSFS in the first three months of its public release. OK, maybe that's wrong by a factor of two one way or the other, but our perspective in this forum may be distorted regarding how pervasive serious problems are in the download/install/update process.

In other words, we may not be hearing from the 99%+ of folks who have had no problems in that regard. True, everyone's weather may be flaky at one time or another, and the default aircraft are, well, default aircraft. Certainly some individuals have had more serious system-level problems, but it would be good to recall that every flight simulator has had such issues. Indeed, on its home page AVSIM has a link to a 38 page guide to CTD solutions for FSX/P3D that was posted in 2017 and updated as late as 2019.

Have fun!

On 11/17/2020 at 4:26 PM, DAD said:

Well. Never a good time. Or any time. Since I bought an SSD for msfs I did multiple re-installs. As I am doing as we speak since there were too many CTDs recently with a black screen during game start so I figured I better pull the plug and try all over again. Sometimes I feel that my aged system stumbles when decompressing and writing all those GBs and a smal hickup causes some file errors so a re-install is best

Well now is the time (for me...)  I formatted a well known Flightsim residing on my gaming drive to make room to dedicate MSFS on its own drive.  I have had no troubles downloading/ installing and maintaining MSFS so far but on my system I think something is holding great performance back, ie 10900K and FTW3090U.  The reason this is on my mind,  with the other sims you had new versions labeled 1.0 2.1... 4.0  5.0    I realize we are only three months old in FSY  " Flight Sim Years "     and the fact the next release will focus on gameplay optimizations and smoother graphics its time  to start fresh.

Thanks for letting think out loud... quietly wife is still working do not disturb

Steve

My initial (microsoft store) installation was the default settings on the C drive nvme. Went and got a 1 tb and did the move option to the new nvme.. worked no issues. but then again ive got no third party addons installed.

On 11/17/2020 at 12:32 PM, sluihn said:

To finally do a complete fresh reinstall of MSFS2020 on a fresh bigger SSD?  or should i wait...  next update coming up need to make plans 

Thoughts?

Steve

I also initially installed MSFS in its default location and then used the App Move function to move it to its dedicated SSD.  That worked just fine until I had to do a systems restore which broke the links...

If you have good download speeds, I would save a copy of the Community folder contents, uninstall MSFS, and install a fresh copy on the new SSD.