I'm stumped... MSFS says installed but is not

[turbomax 3,287]

5 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Frankly, MSFS has the WORST installer/updater I've ever seen in 30+ years of software. 

affirmative, it's like a "§%&'/" roulette every time.

[bean_sprout 1,201]

Be careful or we may have to start using floppy disks again.

ns

[pete_auau 1,163]

2 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

I completely agree with you but I'm hoping to avoid rebuying it hehe.  It might come to that.

Hopefully  you dont  need  to do that  and  get  your issues  resolved.   If  you  do  decide  to buy it  again  purchase  it  thru  steam   seems that steams  users  have  no issues  installing  than  that those  who bought it  thru microsoft store

[CFIJose 5,485]

3 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

I completely agree with you but I'm hoping to avoid rebuying it hehe.  It might come to that.

Ryan, How did it go?

[ryanbatc 12,865]

2 hours ago, DJJose said:

Ryan, How did it go?

I'm trying to work on it now actually... still making a USB stick for Win 11 boot

[CFIJose 5,485]

Just now, ryanbatcund said:

I'm trying to work on it now actually... still making a USB stick for Win 11 boot

I would not buy it again. I would try to get a hold of support. Good luck!

[bean_sprout 1,201]

You must figure it out because MSFS is so awesome.

ns

[bean_sprout 1,201]

Early morning / live weather winter into KORS the best.

ns

[ryanbatc 12,865]

It's just not my day lol

It seems that I cannot install it while it exists on my old PC... error code: 0x80073CF3

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/errors/error-code-0x80073cf3

edit:  I've tried deleting it from my old PC in xbox app.  I logged out of that one as well.  Logged into the xbox app on new PC...same error code!

%^%^*&^%&!  If only I were a smart person who decided to use Steam like I have with most my other software titles...

Here's the pic of my screen as well

Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Edited March 5, 2022 by ryanbatcund

[irocx 293]

11 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Frankly, MSFS has the WORST installer/updater I've ever seen in 30+ years of software.  

If it's any consolation (which I know it isn't because I've gone thru this too) during the recent dev Q/A when this subject was raised all 3 began to look down sheepishly and Martial tried to allude that it's was a Microsoft issue.  All agreed that this REALLY needs to be looked into and CHANGES need to be made.  🤪

Hope ya'll get it sorted real soon.

Edited March 5, 2022 by irocx

[abrams_tank 7,426]

46 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

It's just not my day lol

It seems that I cannot install it while it exists on my old PC... error code: 0x80073CF3

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/errors/error-code-0x80073cf3

edit:  I've tried deleting it from my old PC in xbox app.  I logged out of that one as well.  Logged into the xbox app on new PC...same error code!

%^%^*&^%&!  If only I were a smart person who decided to use Steam like I have with most my other software titles...

Here's the pic of my screen as well

Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Just contact support, you'll figure it out faster with their help.

[ryanbatc 12,865]

Alright....we're in business gents!

A user on Discord helped me think through this...  First thing - Windows update didn't download everything.  Did that.  Next, I was able to go on the Windows Store and download "Digital Ownership" and that somehow initialized the Xbox app to download some more files.  After that I still got an error code but this time, upon googling, it showed that the xbox app required another Windows Update (which when I checked - the download had failed for some reason - retried and was a success).  Next I went to Flight Sim app (which was now showing in my Windows Start Menu) and right clicked on that to get advanced options and then performed a reset.  After that I went back to Xbox app and restarted the download and it installed the initial files.  Then I finally double clicked the MSFS icon in my start menu and voila!  I'm seeing the regular old 123-ish GB's of download!!

My gosh they need to figure this word not allowed out.

[bean_sprout 1,201]

Duh

ns

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

9 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

My gosh they need to figure this word not allowed out.

You are not kidding! 🤫

[ryanbatc 12,865]

No addons yet but in this area I more than doubled my FPS.  Naturally GPU limited hehe.... maybe the RTX 40xx series will be the one!

Untitled-2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr