Download Link to MSFS 2020 does not download for me

If you pre-ordered a game, it is linked to your account. Try the Microsoft Store while signed in and you should be able to simply download it.

I can also confirm this worked for me on PC. I downloaded the XBOX app via the store.

Then, in store, clicked the three dots.

Then "downloads and updates" and sure enough there was an update for MSFS 2020 1.19.9.0. This was 507.0MB.

I then started MSFS 2020 which went to its own install manager and showed me the "Standard Content" mandatory update which was 108.12MB. The total download, however, was 3.19GB.

I then downloaded all available updates in content manager.

Once all this was complete I quit to desktop and restarted MSFS 2020 without issue.

I think it's VERY strange to need to install the XBOX app for any updates to show in the PC's Microsoft store!!

On October 30, 2021, I tried downloading again, and it worked. After the download, I was able to launch MSFS 2020, reinstall all the updates, and fly.

Yes....of course. You can post my reply on the specific forum. Thanks

My system MASSIVELY exceedes the minimum spec, and also the Recommended spec, excepting for my GTX970 (soon to be replaced), so it's
not PC spec issues. I have a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe v4 with 400GB free space. MS2020 is a PoS which should not have been released IMO, until it could be installed/worked on most machines. Not machines with clean
installs jst for MS2020, but machines that have been in daily use. It has great potential, but not yet realised, weeks later.

And have you actually followed the advice and taken the issue up with the MSFS2020 SUPPORT SITE yet?

And if so, what response have you had from them?