Installation Copying Orbiter to new PC?

[This_is_me]

I've just built a new PC and want to move Orbiter (100830) from my old PC to it. I could reinstall from scratch, but in addition to installing various add-ons that would also mean reconstructing some custom bases and such. It would be much easier to just copy the entire Orbiter folder from the old PC to the new one and run it as is. I've tried that and it seems to work. And I'm aware that Orbiter doesn't do anything with the Windows registry (thank you!), so no problem there.

Here's my question, then. When a fresh installation of Orbiter is run for the very first time, it does some checking of the system for things like DirectX and there's a window which appears briefly and is never seen again. Does this particular part of the program also set any parameters in configuration files or do anything else to configure the software to the specific PC?

If not, I'm all set. If it does, then although Orbiter is working well enough on the new PC, I'm wondering if there might be some performance improvement possible by reinstalling everything from scratch.

 

[N_Molson]

If you copy/paste the whole directory, you'll also copy/paste "Orbiter.cfg" and "Orbiter_NG.cfg". Those files contain the configuration informations, and I'm quite certain that the post-installation checks only happen if those files are missing (they are created after you run Orbiter the first time).

The only performance improvement you could get is by not re-installing some addons that constantly calculate things or check the state of the simulation. That's all.

 

[Ripley]

You could try to rename those CFGs, launch Orbiter and see what happens.
In case, you can compare the new files against the old ones.

BTW, welcome to OF!

 

[Urwumpe]

You might enumerate GPU devices again after moving to a new computer, but otherwise, Orbiter is luckily very self-contained and does not complain about moving around.

 

[This_is_me]

OK, thanks. When I ran Orbiter from the new directory (copied intact) it automatically recognized the new GPU and said so in the Launchpad, so no problems there. As for the two config files, I took a look at them; first time I had ever bothered to. The information they contain appears to be saved parameters from the Launchpad; window size, activated modules, etc, but from what I can tell nothing specific to the PC. As for trimming away add-ons, performance is already fine and I'm happy with it the way it is; if there was some way I could improve it without sacrificing a fun add-on and without effort I might do it, but that would only be improving performance just for the hell of it.

 

[Keatah]

That's right. I don't recall any other hardware information being stored anywhere in any cfg file.