Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Installation Problems / Clarification

Anonymous
2020-08-18T07:08:11+00:00

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:

  1. Manage - with just one entry "Microsoft Flight Simulator: Premium Deluxe" and
  2. 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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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-30T11:09:06+00:00

    Now that I've visited your site (briefly) I can see that you are well in with flightsim.to, so apologies - my advice there was redundant. I'd still recommend flightsimulator.com, though.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-02T08:25:32+00:00

    This tool that "Australian Aviation East Coast" released is useless. Literally just a .bat file with lines of code that advertises your website, discord, and displays a fake progress bar just for it to run "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal". Save yourselves some time and disregard this blatant advertisement and open cmd yourself and paste that in there. Taking advantage of users trying to fix a frustrating issue by advertising your own random website is not helpful. At all.

    Edit: If you're like me and are exhausted from trying to solve this, just give up. It's not worth it and has been an issue since launch, months now with no fix. Only thing that got it working for me was a complete re-install of Windows.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-06T21:06:50+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-07T00:41:38+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-07T00:44:05+00:00

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

    So yeah. It works.

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