Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and...

Discus and support Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and... in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; I just bought Microsoft Flight Simulator from Steam yesterday. I have completely wiped it and reinstalled it (yes all 136 gigabytes of files) THREE... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by Pelayo Muniz, Nov 24, 2022.

  1. Pelayo Muniz
    Pelayo Muniz Guest

    Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and...


    I just bought Microsoft Flight Simulator from Steam yesterday. I have completely wiped it and reinstalled it (yes all 136 gigabytes of files) THREE TIMES, and nothing has worked. I finally got it to work today by not installing the "essential updates" package (because the last time I did I got the error in the title and I had to reinstall the game AGAIN). When I finished the installation of the game (downloading the 136 gigabytes of files), I got a prompt to get the "essential updates" package. The first time, I click the "update option," and it then gave me a screen that said "you are missing essential packages, please update the game and try again." I then reinstalled the game with a new set of the 136 gigabytes of files, and I clicked the "update later" option. The game ran normally and smoothly, and I played for a few hours. I then quit the game. When I tried to load the game again, it gave me the SAME ERROR: "you are missing essential packages, please update the game and try again."

    Guys, I just want to play Microsoft Flight Simulator. No, I haven't installed any mods or marketplace content. No, I haven't messed with the files or gotten a pirated copy. I got the game fair and square and have gone through all the processes and this thing refuses to work out-of-the-box. I have done ZERO tinkering. I am on an AMD system, latest version of Windows 10. Please help me, I've done research but I've found nothing that works. Why does this have to happen to me??? I haven't done anything wrong! I just want to play the game Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and... :(

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    Pelayo Muniz, Nov 24, 2022
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  2. SwordofWhedon Win User

    Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and try again

  3. MateusFontana Win User

    Clean up Flight Simulator 2020 packages on PC

    Hello, how are you? Hope you're well. My name is Mateus. I'm an Independent Advisor and I'll be glad to help you today.

    First, welcome to the Xbox community. In Microsoft Flight Simulator forums I found discussions that talk about it, players report that when deleting these files the game may present performance problems or maybe not open due to the message ''you are missing packages that are essential to run Microsoft flight simulator please update the application and try again'' is not information confirmed by the developer, they are just player reports.

    This information can be found at the link below.


    https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...date-the-application-and-try-again/427269/114


    Anyway, I suggest you contact game support to confirm this directly with them, to contact them please use the link below.

    https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/re...

    *Thank you in advance for contacting the community, I hope this can help you. Let me know if you have more questions, please.
  4. Anand Patel1 Win User

    Microsoft Flight Simulator: You are missing essential packages, please update the game and try again

    I am previously in the same exact situation. Had the game from few years ago. Just tried to recently play again. Please let me know if you resolve the problem, and how it is done.
  5. M0nkeyCrumpets Win User

    Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC - you are missing packages that are essential to run microsoft flight simulator

    I'm having the same issue with the Steam version. Tried everything from that article as well as reinstalling.

    There's a thread full of people having the same issue on the steam forums as well. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1250410/discussions/1/3598968030041818992/
  6. JosefLBohorquez Win User

    Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC - you are missing packages that are essential to run microsoft flight simulator

    thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
    I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

    Hope you're doing great today despite this Izzy888

    May I know if you already tried and double checked everything from this article?

    https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ar...

    By the way, is this happening with the Microsoft store / Xbox app version or the Steam version?
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