4.85, will it require a re-install?

[gemini]

Simple. Can I just deactivate the current version with FLMM and activate the new one?
Or must I back up my account IDs, uninstall and re-install FL?

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[Saigo.Watanabe]

Simple. Can I just deactivate the current version with FLMM and activate the new one?

Im guessing you just do that, but i back up my accounts anyway. just incase my pc dies or summat

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[Hyperion]

Simple. Can I just deactivate the current version with FLMM and activate the new one?

Yep

no need for a complete reinstall, or such things:)

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[Jinx]

in theory, you can uninstally the 4.84 and reinstall the 4.85 with FLMM.

however - it is advisable that you:

- uninstall 4.84 with FLMM
- uninstall freelancer and ALL its traces from the registry and your private folders
- TAKE DOWN YOUR ACCOUNT ID !!!

defrag the system

- reboot the system and make a 100% fresh installation form your original freelancer CD
- upload 4.85 into FLMM
- install 4.85 onto the fully fresh freelancer 1.0 version you just installed
- run the new disco mod - and setup the links for the server
- enter your old account ID

that is the best way to do it.... every time you "just use FLMM" - things can be left behind. - so - i d advice ( once the public beta starts ) to make a fully fresh installation.

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[gemini]

Well, I ask not because I can't/don't back up my ID(s), but because I would just rather not go to the trouble of a re-installation.
If it turns out that just using FLMM doesnt work, I always still have the option of a full clean re-install :)

But hopefully the simple FLMM solution will work (even if it does leave a few scattered fragments of this 'n that) and save me alot of time and impatience.:rolleyes:

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[Jinx]

here is my experience... ( but only with the close beta atm )

- when i uninstall 4.84 in FLMM 1.3 and reinstall 4.85beta5 - i get a CTD

when i do all the steps i described before - the beta runs fine. - so FLMM leaves "something" behind that causes the CTD.

thats why i say - i d suggest to do it. - others in the beta have had no problem with just switching with FLMM....

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[GodsFavorite]

The easiest way to save your account is to download Korrd's Freelancer Account Manager, scan your PC, export all the accounts into one file, and email that file to yourself.

[gemini]

The account manager has already saved my hide once, so Im a big fan. :cool:

As for CTDs from stuff left behind... *shrugs* over 5 years of game modding on and off I have never figured out why some mods for some games on some machines require a reinstall... and some dont.
So I suppose the only way to find out now... is to try:D

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[Fellow Hoodlum]

The recommended way to de-activate the mod in the manager is to use the 'tools/restore backups' method,
not just hit the de-ac button. Gives a cleaner removal of the current mod being used.
Should stop those niggling little errors.

Hoodlum

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[Akumabito]

I never uninstall a mod, I have a "golden" vanilla install in another folder that I copy into the default folder and install the mod to, then I copy it to another directory and run it from there. I never have an issue with uninstall corruption since I started doing it that way. The down side is if you have several mods at a gig each they can eat up a small harddrive.