rog943

Help please! A few days ago I found that I could no longer launch the sim. I bought my PC less than two years ago with MSFS installed (they sold me the discs they used and it's all in my name). A few months ago I purchased the premium version within the FS (online download) without a problem. I have never used the DVDs until now. I'll try to summarise. After trying a few times I concluded that I was going to have to reinstall the whole thing (sinking feeling). I had been reading lots of posts and uninstalled the programme. I had renamed my Communities folder and deleted the folder which had contained it - the one in users\....\Packages\Microsoftflightsimulator followed by a long series of letters (!). I have tried three times to reinstall (=3x5hours). Currently the situation is that the discs have installed into a folder (the default) called MSFSpackages. I can't recall seeing that before and the one I tried to describe above is not there. At the end of the install I was asked to enter the code which told me the code had been redeemed. At this point I am lost. In Apps the MSFS is shown as 100Gb DVD content. I have tried to get the game running in both Xbox and MS Store. In the process of this I have downloaded another 2.1Gb of data. I have signed in and out. The game is shown in the library and it is 'owned'. I click on start. Nothing. DVD1 has been in the drive all the time. I have tried 'Repair'. There must be something I haven't tried and I hope someone can point it out to me. Somewhere I read a post which haunts me - someone said that some registry entries might be incorrect and no matter what you do if they are left to fester you will never get the thing going (even more sinking feelings!). Help! Rog

Thanks AJZip, I appreciate your explanation. I have actually reinstalled the programme and it works just the same. Fortunately I hadn't got too deeply involved to lose much. Intuitiveness, makes us expect things that don't always happen! It's Christmas so lets hope there's less of that around. All the best to you and all.

Thank you Sierra Delta for your reply. A circular one and which still leaves me trying to make the point gently that if you're looking for an answer on the forum about MSFS generally you don't see any guidance there. One bullet-pointed section warns off putting questions on there and the other section is posted as being to do with VR. End of. Let me make the point that I do appreciate the time and effort people put in to make the website and the forum work. Thank you to you all. That doesn't mean that I can't gently point something out that I think doesn't work very well. That's what I was trying to do. Whatever. My actual question will seem rather puerile, but I'll ask it anyway. When I start the game it goes to the 'checking for updates' page, stays there for what seems a long wait before completing the load. During the wait the icon shaped like a spring washer - an incomplete circle - doesn't move at all. Logic suggests that it ought to turn to tell me it is actually looking for updates, but it doesn't. Could it be that the Update Manager is not actually working? I see a lot of people do post in various places about Stuck on Update Page or similar. Or is the 'I am looking' icon being stationary the way it should be?

The title and comments about what the forum is for make me wonder if this is the place to ask a question about MSFS. It is not about VR just the running of the programme. Should I ask it here? If not then where, please?

For the moment I'm going to use a cheap tablet for the 530 and my ipad for the 750 pop up. It's all useful while climbing the learning curve, Bert. (And occasionally sliding back down it!) Thanks for your thoughts guys.

Thanks Jean-Luc. Good value as ever. Roger

I bought the Reality GNS530 but then decided to buy and use the 750. This is in FSX SE. Is there any way I can have both in the panel of my Alabeo Aztec? Their blurb says both are supported but where would the extra one fit in the panel? At the moment I have the 530 as a pop up with the 750 in the panel and a pop up of the 750 as well but I just wondered... Jean-Luc?