December 21, 20232 yr I'm gonnna get a new PC that will have Windows 11 on it. I currently have Windows 10 with MSFS and all my 500 gb of addons. Is there any less painful and time consuming way of getting everything over to the new PC and Windows 11? I have searched and not found a satisfactory solution as most things concern just adding another Drive to the same PC, I get that. Do the files change with WIndows 11 and require a fresh install of everything again?
December 21, 20232 yr Most payware add-ons generate license keys derived from various hardware component characteristics and/or serial numbers and also store license and config information in the registry. So just moving the drive over or copying the folders over to the new machine won't work for a great deal of software. As to MSFS itself, at least with the Steam version, you can run the installer, and when it starts the big download after setting the location of the packages folder, cancel and quit MSFS, and then copy the old packages folder to the new machine, and then run the sim again. It's best to use the same drive letters and folder names as in the old installation if you do it that way. Some software needs to be deregistered and/or uninstalled on the old machine before trying to install on the new machine, as licensing data is maintained on external servers...e.g. PMDG aircraft, add-ons installed with iniBuilds Manager etc. With those titles, you have to free up your license by deregistering/uninstalling before it will allow you to register it on a new machine. Make sure you do that before taking the old system down. 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
December 22, 20232 yr best bet is to start from scratch least you know you will have a clean install, may take a little longer but in the long run it might save you time, in case if something doesnt quite work out I7-8700k,Corsair h1101 cooler ,Asus Strix Gaming Intel Z370 S11 motherboard, Corsair 32gb ramDD4,, gtx 1080ti Card, RM850 power supply Peter kelberg
December 22, 20232 yr Author I appreciate it guys! This is kinda what I was thinking I just wanted to get some avsim community input. It'll be a long day of loading it onto new pc!
January 8, 20242 yr Moderator On 12/22/2023 at 12:57 AM, Saucey12 said: It'll be a long day of loading it onto new pc! Day? It took me two weeks to install my P3D software onto a new machine. 😉 Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
January 27, 20242 yr Author On 1/8/2024 at 3:20 PM, Ray Proudfoot said: Day? It took me two weeks to install my P3D software onto a new machine. 😉 Ah Ray I have been away awhile. Yep I got a new PC with windows 11. I only reinstalled all my MSFS stuff as I had it on my old machine. It took about 6 hours total one afternoon. It helps that many addons in the modern era have apps that can install things youve purchased much faster than manually installing them into the program. I have right at 1TB of MSFS and MSFS stuff involved in the program.
June 6, 20241 yr On 12/21/2023 at 5:55 PM, Bob Scott said: As to MSFS itself, at least with the Steam version, you can run the installer, and when it starts the big download after setting the location of the packages folder, cancel and quit MSFS, and then copy the old packages folder to the new machine, and then run the sim again. It's best to use the same drive letters and folder names as in the old installation if you do it that way. When I had a C: drive failure a couple of years ago, I did the opposite after reinstalling Windows: install Steam, run the MSFS installer, and then point to my existing MSFS folder for "saving" the big download. I think I only had to reinstall the Fenix bus and the Maddog. For reference, I keep MSFS in another drive, so it wasn't affected by the failure. Edited June 6, 20241 yr by Luis Hernandez Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
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