11 minutes ago, tyke1 said:

a fresh install is not without its perils either! if your current install is good then...

I think you can only get away with reinstalling the msfs client only (the exe that steam uses to begin the loading of the game), then pointing that to the packages folder as has been suggested, if you use Steam version msfs.

I just recently reinstalled my OS and the msfs client only with no problems.

Thanks for the feedback, I forgot to mention I have the MS version. I will end up just doing a fresh install of the whole simulator, got the time.

 

 

I had a very different experience compared to the comments here when I upgraded my processor, memory, GPU, motherboard (twice).

The first mobo upgrade used the same processor as prior to the upgrade. 

I did nothing to flight sim (on SSD  dedicated to just the sim) and Win 10 (on SSD dedicated to Windows and other necessary software).

Windows 10 asked for my registration key and Flight Sim did not appear to notice any of my changes.

I then accidently trashed the mobo (clumsy fingers when inserting the new processor for the 2nd stage of the upgrade) and had to buy and install a duplicate.

Windows 10 asked for my registration key and Flight Sim did not appear to notice any of my changes.

I then replaced the processor and again...Windows 10 asked for my registration key and Flight Sim did not appear to notice any of my changes.

I've been fooling around with building windows based PCs for decades and have seldom had to do a Windows reinstall after mobo or processor upgrade.

22 minutes ago, TacomaSailor said:

I've been fooling around with building windows based PCs for decades and have seldom had to do a Windows reinstall after mobo or processor upgrade.

On my current system (old system) when I did the upgrade (mobo, ram, cpu) I did not bother to do a fresh install, just let windows10 do its thing recognizing all components, the only thing I installed was the new mobo drivers, its been like that for 10 years without a single issue, even with OC, its been working great.

In order to be able to migrate to Win11, I need to do a full fresh install of windows using the UEFI boot option instead of legacy (as it is now) otherwise I will not be able to upgrade. I know there are some work arounds to changing drive partition from legacy to UEFI, but this time, I believe a fresh install is the best option, is the only way of getting rid of all the software/drivers I no longer use.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

 

 

Edited December 2, 20214 yr by CarlosF

1 hour ago, CarlosF said:

Asus 1070, works great with most settings on ultra, too expensive to replace, will wait until next year, hopefully prices will drop.

An hour ago, I landed a 3070 from Best Buy for regular retail price. $829 for an MSI with clock frequency of 1845 MHz. It will be replacing a 1070Ti. Can’t tell you how psyched I am. Only waiting over a year for this! 

Im sure everyone is going to tell you their experience about changing motherboards and windows recognizing their stuff. No one is going to tell you however the excess baggage of log files, old hardware drivers, chipset drivers and registry settings that got transferred with it.

Bottom line .. yes depending on certain conditions you usually can transfer OS across motherboards. HOWEVER it is not the recommended and cleanest option.  

The same applies for the Sim application as well.

I know its a pain in the behind but i don't need to second guess myself if i get some random error that i cannot track down on what is supposed to be a "new" system because i played "lets see if i can boot old windows  on a new motherboard"

Hard pass for me.. 

but im old school like that ... no shortcuts so if you do have an issue no one can tell you your install isn't clean.

Im glad that your going to need to use windows 11 anyways so that moving across motherboards scenario is not really even much of an option.

Cheers