May 25, 20215 yr Driving me mad. I was on 1.15.10.0, which I thought was not that far out of date. I have not used MSFS for a couple of weeks and now it is re-installing the game (61.63 GiB) when I thougt an updated would be fine. This is a crazy arangement and you have no control over this. Is this punishment for not playing regularly? Johan Pienaar
May 25, 20215 yr Are you on Steam, Johan, and have you activated the Verify files functionality ? Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
May 25, 20215 yr Author No, not on steam. Did not see the option to verify files. It just started re-installing from the checking for updates screen😡 Was hoping for a quick flight but now I am grounded. Johan Pienaar
May 25, 20215 yr If you have MSFS content installed to a custom folder, and you don’t point the installer to that same location when doing an update, it will do exactly what you are reporting. I don’t know if that is the reason the sim now wants to download 62GB of data, but it is one possible reason. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
May 25, 20215 yr Did a reinstall to a new drive (new Store installer and Drm file downloads), dropped my OneStore folder backup into the new folder, pressed pause and closed the sim. Next time it restarted, it recognized the files were there, and stopped downloading. You could try that route.
May 25, 20215 yr Similar happened to me, I installed an SSD for Windows only and pointed Steam at the existing MSFS on the old spinner drive. Steam found it and verified pretty fast. I thought I was good to go. I did this with my other Steam games and all worked fine. When I fired up the sim it began downloading 80GB of data. So I think I forgot to back up another file before I got the SSD. Where does this 80GB data sit?
May 25, 20215 yr 3 hours ago, JRBarrett said: If you have MSFS content installed to a custom folder, and you don’t point the installer to that same location when doing an update, it will do exactly what you are reporting. I don’t know if that is the reason the sim now wants to download 62GB of data, but it is one possible reason. Thats what probably happened. I was in a similar situation and I just pointed it to my d drive and it did the update instead of the reinstallation
May 25, 20215 yr Do you use multiple MS Store accounts? I once inadvertently switched to my son's account and got a 60GB download during one of the updates...
May 25, 20215 yr Author Very strange, nothing changed on my PC, not using steam and I ended up with exactly the same version as I had before the "update". Johan Pienaar
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