Hello,

I've purchased MSFS on Steam and I've installed it succesfully. As every steam game, before installing, the client let me choose the installation path and I selected my SSD dedicated for games.

After a quick test flight I decided to check the folders: the installation in fact created a "Microsoft Flight Simulator" folder in D, but it's only 1GB. I then realised that much of the simulator content is in Users/Name/Appdata/Roaming!!! How on earth is that possible? Fortunately I had enough space on my SO SSD, but I don't want to install it there!! 

I've very disappointed by this behaviour honestly

Any solutions yet?

 

Edited August 18, 20205 yr by Jeeeno

When I installed the game I was asked (from inside the MSFS installer after steam downloaded the initial 1gb) what folder I wanted to install all content to.  I created a MSFS folder on my drive of choice and all content was installed there.

6 minutes ago, regis9 said:

When I installed the game I was asked (from inside the MSFS installer after steam downloaded the initial 1gb) what folder I wanted to install all content to.  I created a MSFS folder on my drive of choice and all content was installed there.

Oh really? I must have missed it or didn't see it

Yes, there was a choice to install the main sim right in the beginning. You might find that there is an option to move that folder now though.

13 minutes ago, Greg R-One said:

Yes, there was a choice to install the main sim right in the beginning. You might find that there is an option to move that folder now though.

You mean inside the MSFS settings?

Yea, as usualy, another typical micorsoft failure in creating accurate and simple to understand menu's and installation progression screens.

After Steam asks you where you want to install MSFS and it begins installing...MS is then going to ask you again where you want to install it AFTER you start the sim for the first time, as it's not actually installed yet (the MS installer should work properly with the Steam installer but they obviously haven't gone to the bother of syncing the process and making it seamless). To make the process even more confusing (because you've never been asked twice before where you want to install a new game, right?) that screen that comes up asking where you want to install, isn't actually asking you word for word where you want to install the sim...it rambles on about which text and voice package is going to be used by the sim for atc and it shows a progress bar at bottom with text next to the progress bar that says "packages" (or something like that) and the path points to your appdata folder in C:\ drive...so you end up thinking that it's only going to install some sort of system packages there like some apps do.

But no...thats where the entire game gets dumped...leaving you no way of backing out once you realize this. It's now painfully obvious that the entire install process was never tested by end-users. It's confusing to say the least...and it's all because MS programmers don't understand how to properly write some simple copy for their installers so that end users will understand the process at hand.

Ok, so now can I ask those who have been through this very painful process....where (in which app) will I now find that "move" option? Where will it appear after install is complete....or this this only an option if you purchased in the MS store?

I dunno, something tells that Im going to end up needing to really just uninstall and reinstall all over again from scratch.

 

**EDIT: so, next point...about the reinstall process. Normally what you'd try doing in a case like this is to move the main installed folder to the location where you really did want it in the first place, and then run MSFS so it's installer starts again. It realizes (since you moved the installation, and its looking in the old location for it) that it must be installed again....so NOW you point it to the folder where youve dropped it and you'd expect it to do a scan to check for files, realize all the files are there and the reinstall routine would then complete in a matter of seconds, done...but nooooo, it doesn't do this...instead it never checks for installed files in the new folder you've chosen and just re-downloads and re-installs everything over the top of what already exists. How friggen stupid & inefficient.

Considering it's been 4 days now since release and I've seen plenty of posts relating to this issue I'm dumbfounded why the correct instructions have not yet been sticky'd.

Edited August 22, 20205 yr by hangar