Hi,
I will change my MB and processor next weeks.
Do I need to uninstall MSFS before doing the change?
And another question: do I need to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch?
Presently I own:
Core i7-9700K on MB ASUS MAXIMUX X HERO (socket 1151)
And I will go to
Core i7-12700KF on MB MSI EDGE Z690 DDR 4 (socket 1700)
Thanks for any suggestion/advise.
Patrice.
Only necessary if you want to make yourself feel good.
In my eyes, a waste of time.
Hi,
What is a waste of time?
Uninstalling MSFS?
Reinstalling W10 from scratch?
Thanks.
No and no.
Hi,
Could you develop, please?
Thanks.
Install the driver for your new board / CPU, that’s all.
Unless your win10 is very old and completely garbage.
But as long as there are no problems so far, it is not necessary.
Changing the motherboard may require you to re-activate your Windows 10 license. If you have your activation key with you, you may need it. If you don’t have a key, check out the Windows help pages to see what you need to do.
There are many guides on the internet about changing your motherboard without wiping your disk, but they are more or less the same. Remove all drivers for hardware on the motherboard before switching. I did it many times and never had a problem.
MSFS is even less a problem as it is simply linked to your Xbox account. If that remains the same, it will simply run.
Excellent information! I’ve not done this before, how would I remove all hardware drivers?
If you don’t check and doublecheck that the drivers are the correct ones this can be a recipe for disaster. I’m talking from experience with Asrock boards when I went from an onboard two core mobo to an onboard four core mobo. Stupidly I let Windows choose the drivers.
Well, that is not super easy. But Windows 10 and 11 are remarkably robust in these aspects. Just look at all installed software and remove anything that has the maker of your motherboard as the publisher.
That will remove the vast majority. Then look for any drivers for network and sound. But even if there are some drivers left, Windows will most likely not complain.
I swapped from a 9900K mogherboard to an 11900K one, with no OS reinstall or sim reinstall. No issues here.
In WinXP times, right?
Nope, W10 … I upgraded my camper van PC so I could play GTA5 on vacation. Windows updated the old drivers with incompatible ones that had already been superseded and my PC wouldn’t post after after a restart.
Thank you all. There are a lot of information here.
So, I will try reinstalling my W10 and I will use Macrium Reflect Redeploy to dissimilar hardware feature to do this.
Has anyone used this feature of Macrium and what was the result?
Thanks.
I have no experience with tools like that and to be honest, fail to see what they can do better than just removing drivers and plugging in the new motherboard.
To be honest, copying your whole running system to a backup and restoring it seems rather weird.
I checked the installed programs on my system and the only one with asus is AI suite 3. No other prog related to asus or the processor.
ok, but how old was the mainboard? before win7? xD 2 core sounds like that.
One was 2014 and the next 2016 … if remember rightly it was power supply but I used exactly the same 5A power brick pico psu once I did get it fixed.
All of the driver problems I had with win10 after the install were due to old Nvidia cards in older PCs. Your beloved gt730, for example, needs an old driver by hand. The win driver just makes ■■■■ there.
But everything over 2016/17 should be unproblematic