Found this over on Facebook:

Maybe some of you are interested. Here is the link:

https://github.com/Externoak/A32NX-installer/releases/download/0.1/A32NX_Downloader.zip

 

 

Just get's better and better 😍

Nice and simple, works great, thanks

John

Thx modders, you are great, ... and skilled much more than Asobo 😉

I get an unzip error when I point it to my Community folder. Works great if I point it to any other temporary location ... then I simply copy/replace.

I suspect the error is because the Community folder is protected (it's an MS Store install).

Adam.

Thank you so much!

Question: Is that cool FlyByWire livery supposed to install too? I can never find it..

11 hours ago, Mark VII said:

Thx modders, you are great, ... and skilled much more than Asobo 😉

Really? They can do a complete global simulator like ASOBO?

6 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

I get an unzip error when I point it to my Community folder. Works great if I point it to any other temporary location ... then I simply copy/replace.

I suspect the error is because the Community folder is protected (it's an MS Store install).

Adam.

Not true, the Community folder is not protected at all. Most likely if you did not select your own install folder then the default install folder is so far down the folder tree that the folder path is too long for the flybywire installer to cope with. I too have the MS Store version but installed it to c:\msfs and have no problems with the flybywire installer.

7 minutes ago, ludekbrno said:

Really? They can do a complete global simulator like ASOBO?

Don't think flybywire made the plane mesh model either. Their improvements to the A320 are great but are the tip of the iceberg compared with what Asobo have achieved.

1 hour ago, CJ1045 said:

Not true, the Community folder is not protected at all. Most likely if you did not select your own install folder then the default install folder is so far down the folder tree that the folder path is too long for the flybywire installer to cope with. I too have the MS Store version but installed it to c:\msfs and have no problems with the flybywire installer.

Hmmmm ...

Adam.

 

6 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Hmmmm ...

Adam.

 

 

The Community folder is not the core sim. It is exactly the opposite. The core sim files remain completely untouched by anything placed in the community folder. However, simply put, any files in the community folder are used instead of the core sim files. The Community folder is completely open.

CJ

 

16 minutes ago, CJ1045 said:

The Community folder is not the core sim. It is exactly the opposite. The core sim files remain completely untouched by anything placed in the community folder. However, simply put, any files in the community folder are used instead of the core sim files. The Community folder is completely open.

OK - I'll buy that (many thanks)!

In that case, my problem must be that idiotically long folder name that MS Store creates under WpSystem. Before installing (on a clean SSD) I changed the default location of MS Apps to that drive, but was totally unaware that MS Store would create such a mess of it.

Adam.

4 hours ago, ludekbrno said:

Really? They can do a complete global simulator like ASOBO?

the reason there are comments like this is because MS most likely forced poor ASOBO to release the simulator at least 6 months too soon. If not more. The ongoing bugs and performance of the airliners in particular are just beyond anything I've ever experienced. I mean, several updates later and the instruments still go black during final approach and ironically - come back after you've landed. It is so bad and downright dangerous that it almost feels intentional...like "don't fly this plane. Just don't because we're not gonna bother fixing it. Wait for payware"

Of course, the simulator itself and scenery is jawdropping. Like art. It's just that tiiiny little detail like...being able to actually fly the airliners without hitting ESC and Quit to Desktop in anger and say "That's it, I'm done..."

8 minutes ago, flightsim1818 said:

the reason there are comments like this is because MS most likely forced poor ASOBO to release the simulator at least 6 months too soon. If not more. The ongoing bugs and performance of the airliners in particular are just beyond anything I've ever experienced. I mean, several updates later and the instruments still go black during final approach and ironically - come back after you've landed. It is so bad and downright dangerous that it almost feels intentional...like "don't fly this plane. Just don't because we're not gonna bother fixing it. Wait for payware"

Of course, the simulator itself and scenery is jawdropping. Like art. It's just that tiiiny little detail like...being able to actually fly the airliners without hitting ESC and Quit to Desktop in anger and say "That's it, I'm done..."

 

Just to check on the instruments going black - have you fuel left? I have had them go black but only when I am out of fuel, not surprsing as nothing left to power them. It is also at the end of a v long flight - I have had it happpen 2nm from the runway.

The bugs that are happening are pretty normal at this staage of release of most games, especially the more complex ones.

 

CJ