rFactor re-intall proceedures?

I forget, has anyone posted them, and I didn't mean to be lazy, but was thinking someone said to save 1 or 2 files, just in case? I want to uninstall rFactor like they suggest, I do not recall what I had better do or how I can make sure I get back online and all that... I have NOT done much to the sim as far as add-ons, well since the 1st rounds of the Nascar Beta stuff. thanks.

"PlowBoy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ABqAg.899$uW1.340@dukeread06...

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>I forget, has anyone posted them, and I didn't mean to be lazy, but was >thinking someone said to save 1 or 2 files, just in case? I want to >uninstall rFactor like they suggest, I do not recall what I had better do >or how I can make sure I get back online and all that... I have NOT done >much to the sim as far as add-ons, well since the 1st rounds of the Nascar >Beta stuff. > > thanks. >

My suggestion would be to rename your presently installed rFactor and install the new version. Once things are up to par, you can transfer anything from the old to the new and then delete the old install. In this way, you preserve your activation and do not use up another. This is what I typically do, having enough space to do so. Getting back online is not a big issue, even if you had to use up another activation. Only recently I reformatted my hard drive, as a part of my almost ritual summer cleaning. I did have to reactivate, but had no problems getting online. It happened almost automatically, without any effort of my own. Alanb

In article <ABqAg.899$uW1.340@dukeread06>, [email hidden] says... > I forget, has anyone posted them, and I didn't mean to be lazy, but was > thinking someone said to save 1 or 2 files, just in case? I want to > uninstall rFactor like they suggest, I do not recall what I had better do or > how I can make sure I get back online and all that... I have NOT done much > to the sim as far as add-ons, well since the 1st rounds of the Nascar Beta > stuff. I renamed my directory and just did a complete new install. No activation required but I did lose my plr file and cash. Wasn't that big a deal as I've only really been doing the odd race here and there. I suspect that if you were to dump your userdata dir from your old installation, you'd preserve all your lap records, settings, etc. I think their basis behind a re-install was so that there were no strange conflicts with existing files in the rfactor heirachy so to actually uninstall it probably isn't all that neccessary. However, if you do uninstall, there were some registry entries that you need to extract and re-import in order to not have to reactivate the product, IIRC. I found out how to do it on RSC. -- Cheers, Rod.

"Rod" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> In article <ABqAg.899$uW1.340@dukeread06>, [email hidden] > says... > >> I forget, has anyone posted them, and I didn't mean to be lazy, but was >> thinking someone said to save 1 or 2 files, just in case? I want to >> uninstall rFactor like they suggest, I do not recall what I had better do >> or >> how I can make sure I get back online and all that... I have NOT done >> much >> to the sim as far as add-ons, well since the 1st rounds of the Nascar >> Beta >> stuff. > > I renamed my directory and just did a complete new install. No > activation required but I did lose my plr file and cash. Wasn't that > big a deal as I've only really been doing the odd race here and there. > > I suspect that if you were to dump your userdata dir from your old > installation, you'd preserve all your lap records, settings, etc. > > I think their basis behind a re-install was so that there were no > strange conflicts with existing files in the rfactor heirachy so to > actually uninstall it probably isn't all that neccessary. However, > if you do uninstall, there were some registry entries that you need > to extract and re-import in order to not have to reactivate the > product, IIRC. I found out how to do it on RSC. > > -- > Cheers, > Rod.

No, you just uninstall the old version and install the new. No activation, and no need to save any registry entries. You can save your user data folder from the old install if you want to keep setups and controller configuration. Downloaded tracks can be saved from the locations folder. -- David G Fisher

PlowBoy wrote: > I forget, has anyone posted them, and I didn't mean to be lazy, but was > thinking someone said to save 1 or 2 files, just in case? This is probably overkill but you never know: http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=227385