Hi All,

This weird new thing started happening today when I launch MSFS, and go past the "Press Any Key to Continue" screen.

I get this popup that will not let me continue without a "Game Disc". https://imgur.com/a/fnZCqsR

2 questions:

1. is anyone else getting this? Is it likely to be because of the purported 27th August update? (I am in Aus - using MS Store bought digital ownership version; so in 3.5 hours its going to be 28th August here).

Just some background -yesterday, I was unable to find and remove/delete my manual cache file, so I uninstalled MSFS. However my MSFS dedicated N:\ Drive was still pupulated with 250GB of data. I formatted N:\ and then reinstalled MSFS from the Microsoft Store overnight onto N:\ again. This time I customised the LocalCache folder location in N:\ drive, and also the location of the Community and Official folders at Install prompt. This morning the sim loaded up fine, and I went in and changed changed my keyboard profile (it seems FS/Windows/Xbox account retained my previous keyboard profiles). Then shut it down. Could this have now prompted this 'insert disc' nonsense?

Would like any assistance. I'm lodging a Zendesk thingy now.

I had that happen when my internet was down

6 minutes ago, Jetman67 said:

I had that happen when my internet was down

Thanks. I just 'Repaired' and 'Reset' the App from Windows App settings. But now that you mention it, I'm troubleshooting if its a firewall issue on my end or not. I dont recall Windows giving me the popup for "allow network access" when I reinstalled last night. (My internet is live on Windows)

Will post any updates here.

Sounds like maybe it's not validating Digital ownership

Silly me. I had run linuxmint dual boot this morning after the FS configuration. My Windows changed the Windows time after reboot. It was now saying 11:10 AM instead of 9:10 PM. I've resynced the time and am happy to report the sim is loading fine now.

Just that having done the App Reset, it now wants to download the 95 GB all over again!

Edited August 27, 20205 yr by ammark

Hey, you said you figured it out, wondering could you kinda explain it so I can try? I've tried for 4 hours and a half and I'm going insane and have tried everything. Thanks

I actually had this happen when I had two conflicting G1000 mods in the Community folder..

As a test, empty out your Community folder before the next launch! 🙂

On 8/27/2020 at 1:07 PM, Jetman67 said:

Sounds like maybe it's not validating Digital ownership

 

49 minutes ago, Fergus ST said:

Hey, you said you figured it out, wondering could you kinda explain it so I can try? I've tried for 4 hours and a half and I'm going insane and have tried everything. Thanks

Exactly that.If you got it on the microsoft store, you have to uninstall just the "Digital Ownership" part, and redownload/reinstall it. The process is not really straight forward as the store itself is and wondows 10 can be a bit of a pain to navigate. But, it worked for me, download is a few Megs, nothing crazy like redownloading the whole 100gigs.