Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Installation Problems / Clarification

Anonymous

Hi,

I have been struggling with getting MSFS 2020 to install!

Pre-Purchased the Premium Deluxe Edition and i have a Windows 10 PC - and so far all attempts have failed at some point over the last 12 hours of trying.

First question - what is the order of installation that should be performed from the Microsoft Store across the items that are listed there in two parts:

Manage - with just one entry "Microsoft Flight Simulator: Premium Deluxe" and
Bundle Contents - that lists four sub-parts

2.1 "Microsoft Flight Simulator"

2.2 "Flight Simulator Deluxe Upgrade"

2.3 "Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe Upgrade"

2.4 "Digital Ownership"

Is there a particular order or hierarchy that these need to be installed?

i.e. do each of the sub-parts of point 2 above need to be installed individually and prior to the first part (i.e. point 1), or does installing the first (Managed) install all the others?

So far the downloads have been erratic, and i installed the first part and then launched it, it started up and then froze, and then crashed on restart. When trying to install the sub-parts, the computer just site there with "working" displayed on the sub-part line.

This is really frustrating!

Anyone able to provide some guidance or point to a set of instructions on how to get MSFS2020 installed?

thanks!

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Anonymous

2020-09-12T12:06:39+00:00

Same keeps happening to me. Its gsils to write on my hatd drive. A patch is needed
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Anonymous

2020-09-12T04:47:14+00:00

This is the same screen im stuck on, after about 8 hours of waiting it got to about 90% then said it was decompressing, but when i tried to move my cursor i noticed it was frozen, waited 20 minutes with nothing happening, paused, reset, now its back to decompressing and freezing without fail. Running on Windows 10. On a BRAND NEW computer i got 3 days ago, so its not a lack of space/power.
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Anonymous

2020-09-07T07:45:30+00:00

I know. It is now september 7 and still having issues. After installing update on sept 3 the game still crashed to desktop 8 out of 10 times. Very frustrating. I then uninstalled and tried to reinstall with issues still happenning after september 7. ****. COME ON Microsoft. Get it right FFS
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Anonymous

2020-09-05T16:02:44+00:00

I have the same problem. Its supposed to download a 2 or 3 seperate files. It fails to wtite to disk
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Anonymous

2020-09-05T14:49:48+00:00
I purchased the standard MSFS a week ago. To date, download will not even start with either the MS Store or a Xbox beta installer.

My gaming laptop and internet fully meet or exceed the recommended specs. Other MS Store apps download fine.

I have spent hours in chats with multiple MS Xbox techs and researched online "fixes" in forums and YouTube. I have run and re-run updates, repairs, troubleshooters, resets, removals and re-installations, turned other programs off, unplugged USBs and deleted caches. Nothing helped at all. Xbox gave up trying and their partner developer won't respond to my issue.

The last thing I want to check is, should there be two MSFS's showing?
- I purchased and was billed for one std. MSFS. Amazon shows, "Purchased 2 times".
- MS Store shows two MSFS's in "Ready to Install"; one called "Digital Ownership" and one called "Microsoft Flight Simulator". Neither will start to download.
- An Xbox Installer program show two MSFS programs in "Games I Own"; one called "Microsoft Flight Simulator" and the other Microsoft Flight Simulator Stand..... Neither will download.
Is that normal or could that be the problem?
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