Very frustrated.
Sim was working fine. The latest update was updating for 18 hours and I thought this is not right since original install was only few hours.
I stopped and uninstalled everything and tried to do a clean install and that didn't work either. It was taking more than 20 hours and it was going on a loop.
I called microsoft and they said to fill out the refund form which doesn't load in any browser. https://support.xbox.com/help/subscriptions-billing/buy-games-apps/refund-orders

Finally they said they will research the issue and call me back, which they didn't.

So everything is broken now. I paid $120 and I can't even do anything. I have seen many people are in the same shoes and non of the suggested solution has worked and even microsoft can't help.

2 minutes ago, BijanStudio said:

Very frustrated.
Sim was working fine. The latest update was updating for 18 hours and I thought this is not right since original install was only few hours.
I stopped and uninstalled everything and tried to do a clean install and that didn't work either. It was taking more than 20 hours and it was going on a loop.
I called microsoft and they said to fill out the refund form which doesn't load in any browser. https://support.xbox.com/help/subscriptions-billing/buy-games-apps/refund-orders

Finally they said they will research the issue and call me back, which they didn't.

So everything is broken now. I paid $120 and I can't even do anything. I have seen many people are in the same shoes and non of the suggested solution has worked and even microsoft can't help.

Before installing, did you disable your firewall/anti-virus?

1 hour ago, airlinejets said:

Before installing, did you disable your firewall/anti-virus?

Yes I tried that too. Endless loop of same file during installation.

4 minutes ago, BijanStudio said:

Yes I tried that too. Endless loop of same file during installation.

I was sure this could have been the problem. Sorry to see you are having these problems and that I couldn't be of more help.

Edited September 18, 20205 yr by airlinejets

Same here.

Sim run well on release, run well after Patch #1.

Since Patch #2 im stuck in endless loops of downloading and resetting packages, without ever installing them.

Re-installing the sim was not solving this - still endless loops.

Not able to play this fine 140 € sim now...

Had an endless loop for downloading various files from the patch too. Spend over 75GB in download data for just one file that is 1,85GB big and still it would start over and over. Looked a bit all over the place for a solution, found a few, none of them worked.

Until i saw a post about bringing down speed of the network card to 10MBit/s (from 1GB/s). Tried it (without having much hope) and the rest of the entire download went through in one go. Took quite a while at this speed. After download complete i did set the network speed back to 1GB/s. Maybe worth a shot?

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/update-stuck-in-a-loop-1-8-2/273910/18

 

1 hour ago, BijanStudio said:

Very frustrated.
Sim was working fine. The latest update was updating for 18 hours and I thought this is not right since original install was only few hours.
I stopped and uninstalled everything and tried to do a clean install and that didn't work either. It was taking more than 20 hours and it was going on a loop.
I called microsoft and they said to fill out the refund form which doesn't load in any browser. https://support.xbox.com/help/subscriptions-billing/buy-games-apps/refund-orders

Finally they said they will research the issue and call me back, which they didn't.

So everything is broken now. I paid $120 and I can't even do anything. I have seen many people are in the same shoes and non of the suggested solution has worked and even microsoft can't help.

I'm having the same problem.  Uninstalled MSFS and am trying to re install no success at all. It was working ok before this patch 

Edited September 18, 20205 yr by aguiar

I had the same issue, I fixed it by doing the following:

1 - Changed my routers DNS Servers

2 - Installed NetLimiter 4 and set the up & down speeds to 2MB/s for flightsimulator.exe

 

I did both at the same time & it took about 30 minutes to download but didn't get stuck on any files, found the tips on the main MSFS forum and the person said the up and down limits may need adjusting.

Maybe try Netlimiter first then adjust DNS servers if still not downloading properly.

I changed the DNS servers from Cloudflares 1.1.1.1 service to Googles DNS servers.

 

I hope this works for others like it did for me 

Yup same here gave up on MS purchase - would not run - then try to reinstall - no go it wouldnt - store setup is horrible - 

Get back to you they never did - deluxe purchase down the drain had to get it from Steam and no problems yet - never again will I buy from MS

Yikes! good thing I saw this thread was about to do a reinstall.Now in a holding pattern till  the next patch. 😟 Good luck all

Uninstall. Log out of Windows Store. Reboot. Log into Windows Store. Install.

Yeah never will I ever purchase anything on the "app store" what a joke, im sorry you guys are having so much issues... problem was that Steam wasnt honoring the premium deluxe editions at first release -- oh the woes of early adopters...