Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Installation Problems / Clarification

Interestingly no one has answered this question. I've had MSFS 2020 since the very start and I've never had a problem with it but suddenly, yesterday it stopped working and I have spent over 24 hours trying to sort it out. It is not straightforward and clearly requires a high level of expertise to sort it out. I've spent nearly an hour with an adviser with no success. Although I am no computer expert I do have some technical knowledge and I cannot think of similar example of a program that has been so frustratingly and badly run. In my opinion it should still be in the alpha testing state because I think there are lots of people really disappointed with the lack of easily accessible support necessary to deal with such problems. In fact I think it is outrageous that we've spent over £100 on something which is incomplete. 

I second that mate!

I also feel that I have paid Microsoft over $170 AUD to do testing for them and report feedback.

It should be the other way around huh !

My biggest disappointment is..........VNAV! 

Its still totally broken and not implemented.  

The only solution that I tried and worked was that I reinstalled windows. Once that was done the program installed without a problem.................... **** ? People at Microsoft either fix this game or get into woodworking ....I have also found a lot of problems within the flying. It does look great, but that is not enough.

You gotta be kidding.

Interestingly no one has answered this question. I've had MSFS 2020 since the very start and I've never had a problem with it but suddenly, yesterday it stopped working and I have spent over 24 hours trying to sort it out. It is not straightforward and clearly requires a high level of expertise to sort it out. I've spent nearly an hour with an adviser with no success. Although I am no computer expert I do have some technical knowledge and I cannot think of similar example of a program that has been so frustratingly and badly run. In my opinion it should still be in the alpha testing state because I think there are lots of people really disappointed with the lack of easily accessible support necessary to deal with such problems. In fact I think it is outrageous that we've spent over £100 on something which is incomplete. 

Have a look at your Windows Updates (in Settings), and see if there is a feature update that coincides with the time it stopped working.

I had the same type of problem a couple of days ago, after allowing a feature update to install, and found that all I could get FS2020 to do was start (in Resource Monitor) run for a few seconds, then close down. I backed out that update, and flight sim went back to normal. Worth a try.

I'm about to allow flight sim to update, then try reinstalling the windows patch, to see if I still have the problem. I suspect that it might be a timing thing, and those who had the (then) latest patch installed didn't have the problem.

Give it a go and let us know how you got on.

You did I full reinstall of windows to get your game running?

That's a shame. Most people that run the autotuninglevel batch file report back that it worked.

Have had hundreds of people report back that running the autotuninglevel batch file corrected there inability to install the game.

So yeah. It works.