Reinstall?

[Steller dude 63]

Good Day All,

I hope your keeping safe and well in the current events!

I am due to reinstall my OS again and I wish to know when Steam reloads down my copy of KSP 1.9.1

again onto my newly redone system, Does it also either help me do or it's self do the current installed Mods I got installed now?

This is the 1st time since I had ksp that I've had to redo my PC system so I don't know about the Mods list I got and how I get it back as it is now!

I have just backed up the mods I got now onto my Back Up HD along with the other stuff I needed to do before a PC OS reinstall.

But since the game is linked to Steam I not sure what Steam will do when it re-down loads ksp game again?

Any help be great.

[steuben]

Actually yo'll be able to just chink the KSP back straight onto your drive... and rebuild the shortcuts.

It reinstall mods, there is a thread here... someplace that explains how to install them. But what you need to do is copy the contents of the gamedata folder, excepting the squad folder over.

[Raptor42]

You can move KSP to external drive and it will work just fine, even without Steam. The mods you are using should not be affected by this move, since they are stored in GameData folder that is part of the KSP folder.

One thing that might be a problem is updating the game, but mods may not function properly when uptating tha game to another version. So I would suggest keeping modded game in other folder than where steam puts it. If you would like to keep your progress, your saves are stored in Saves folder, that is stored inside the KSP folder as well, so when you update, you can just copy this folder to the new updated KSP folder.

[Steller dude 63]

Thank you both very much

for the detailed replies. 

Just as well I going to redo the PC as my mods have gone 

a bit mad and now stops the game running!

What seems to have happened is, I used ckan to update the 

"scatter" mod yesterday on the 25th April.

This caused the game to have fault where my hard built and designed

Mun fuel orbiting station to vanish from the saved game.

So I un-installed using ckan the scatter mod this made ckan un-install

a ton of mods which scatter interacted with!

So I then used ckan to re install the scatter mod 

But this did not seem to help? I copied over from the external drive where I back up to.

the unchanged game data which has the mods in, But this did not help either!

So I just redo the PC as I planned today and reinstall from steam the ksp

and take it from there.

Sometimes this game drives me nuts. 

I keep a record of the ckan before changes for new ( in red arrows ) and updates ( in blue arrows ) by paint program so I know what was installed? 

I found this a better idea than writing them down on paper.

I wish I could paste it here but I can't.

 

[Tonka Crash]

@Steller dude 63 Using CKAN it's trivially easy to reinstall your mods.  First File->Save Installed Mod List...  This creates a .ckan file that you can use with the File->Install from .ckan option to reload the mods without needing to keep track by hand.  Just back up this file somewhere (external disk, cloud) before rebuilding the PC.