I fear I know the answer to this question already. I purchased MSFS Premiere Deluxe through the Steam Marketplace. The game installed just fine (112GB later mind you), but none of the DLC content is visible in-game.  Based on some cursory skimming of the interwebs, I am concerned this may be happening because my steam e-mail is not the same as the one associated with my xbox live account. Has anyone encountered this? Is there a solution other than request a refund?

Thanks,

J

I suspect you simply need to go into the Content Manager and update/download the content that's not showing up? Assuming you haven't placed any custom downloaded content into one of your Community packages directories? That can gum things up on occasion, especially if you leave that content in that directory during an update. 

Dal1850,

Dylanear, I believe has the answer for you.  This has cropped up fairly often, and I find that I have to do this after every update.  In fact, I think a very common solution, and one that works for me, is to 

1, zip and save the Community folder, (to another drive if possible) and then delete after zipping.

2. download and install the update.

3. unzip your Community folder back to its original place.  

4. delete from the new Community folder any mods ie Robert Youngs Bonanza G36, The WorkingTitle G1000/3000 and CJ4, the FlyByWire A320nx, and any other mods you may have installed. Probably wise to check if those updates are the latest, whilst you are at it.

5. re-install your mods (just copying the mods from a previous folder will not do the job and they have to be re-installed. At least that is what I have found to be the case.

6. Go to Content Manager and re-download and install the contents there.  (see comment a little further down)

7. Run MSFS.

Re para 6.  I mention this because if you run MSFS after para 5, you may well find nearly everything all ok, including liveries etc, particularly with the mods installed.  You can then just re-download and re-install that which is missing.  However, I have found that it is just as easy to click "select all" and just re-do the lot in the Content Manager and I do not think that, that, has a negative or harmful effect on the sim itself. Please note that others may disagree with that particular move. It simply works for me.

I have now done 3 complete re-installs using this method, which may appear to be a long winded way to go about it, but I have had no problems with either the complete re-installs nor with updates, apart from the first one which I had problems with. The problems involved the mods and also the Content Manager before I worked out this system with the very helpful suggestions and posts from the community at large.

I claim no credit as this information has been posted in many topics but probably not as a complete procedure. There may well be other ways to go about this and I am only suggesting that the system/procedure above, seems to work reliably. Hopefully, MS and Asobo will work out a permanent update system which will negate the removal of the community folder and the necessity to reinstall the mods and the Content Manager in the near future.

In the meantime, I am sure a lot of simmers who follow this system will back me up.

Good Luck and I hope this sorts it all out for you.

Regards

Tony

I think it varies depending on how much and what kind of community content you are using.

I just have one FSDT airport (CYVR) and I've dabbled in a few free sceneries like Yosemite. I've just done a cut/paste of the contents of my Community directory to a backup directory. I do my MSFS updates, then move the files back. Since they are not moving to a different drive and are not being compressed or processed in any way the move from/to the Community directory is rather instant. Granted I don't have much data in there, but if you did, it would still be rather instant. Then I run the FSDT Live Update to make sure I have the latest. But various ways to slice this. And I've had updates where I left everything as is and just updated without trouble. If you have tons of varied community content more complex habits certainly may be warranted. Your mileage may vary, etc., etc. 

 

Thank you for the feedback. This is good knowledge for pulling future updates.

In this particular instance, it appears that MSFS on the Steam platform doesn't behave quite like other apps as far as DLC's are concerned (which is what it considers the deluxe/premium deluxe content). Even though Steam indicates that the DLC content is present and installed, it is not. It appears to only inject a license or twiddle some bits to make that content accessible in-game. For whatever reason, these bits didn't get twiddled for me. I just had to go into the Steam properties for MSFS, uncheck and recheck the DLC content, sign out of my XBox Live account and restart MSFS and log back in again. The Content Manager picked up the additions this time and I was able to download and install them. I miss the days of "Insert Disc 3".

Thanks again, gents.

Edited November 18, 20205 yr by DAL1850

I did have a reinstall I did after the first or second patch where the Deluxe/Premium content simply didn't show up. In the Content Manager or anywhere else. But that pretty quickly just went away. Either soon after or perhaps it was the next patch that fixed that?