bought and downloaded MSFS 2020 not on my hard disk, when it first opened would not run I...

Hi, I'm , an Independent advisor and I can surely help you.

Don't worry we will work on this together. Just to make sure, did you purchase the game digitally?

What is the spec of your pc

Xbox is the framework for Microsoft games and services

you initially download a approximately 2 GB loader which downloads the rest of the game. Has that completed running for a final size over 100 GB?

Dear Glenn
Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

In the meantime, I was able to resolve the problems by myself. I found two root causes, both on my side:
1. Teredo Server connection was instable -> repaired

2. Add-ons:
As a very big freak of MSFS (using it since 1995), I downloaded about 1'400 add-ons from various sources for MSFS 2020 so far. To select the third-party cities, airfields/airports in the area I want to fly in, I use an add-on management tool, this prior to launching MSFS. This to avoid very long loading time. This procedure shows high effectiveness and efficiency.

Now, it came to my mind to try the same with add-ons downloaded from MarketPlace inside the game and moved respective folders/files from it's C:\Users\...\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore folder to another place on D:\

When starting MSFS 2020 for the first time after this it worked properly, showing respective add-ons in ContentManager as not-installed via MSFS but installed via add-on management tool.

But trying to launch MSFS 2020 for the next time, the failure as described in my first post occured.

Since moving all these folders back to it's official place ...\OneStore, the MSFS 2020 is running again great as expected and always experienced!!!


Therefore, there is no need to loose more time on my above described problems, they are resolved.

But please let me ask this additional question:

Is it possible to easily activate or deactivate add-ons downloaded and installed from MarketPlace depending on where you want to fly, this prior to launch the sim?
And if yes, how to do this?

Thank you very much for your time and engagement

Best regards

Johnny

After deleting all the files that had NOT been decompressed, I ran MSFS again and although it took a while to download all the files again it successfully decompressed them all and MSFS started running.

my machine is: 64gb Mem, 7tb Disk space A, gigabyte 1060 6gb GPU and an AMD 5600 CPU running Windows 11 Pro.