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I spent the better part of today battling heroically with a hitherto unprecedented MSFS error message: This sent me on an arduous ordeal only surpassed by the best Shakespearean tragedies. After a bucketload of blood, sweat and tears, jumping through increasingly ridiculous hoops, I was finally able to “resolve” the issue. There’s been quite a few threads on similar topics lately describing various MSFS oddities and idiosyncrasies. But as I didn’t find any recent threads with the same incessant error message, I decided to start a new one. How I eventually “solved” it: I finally caved in and went for a complete MSFS reinstall after I felt that I had exhausted all other options... MSFS idiosyncrasies and increasingly incomprehensible error messages during the ordeal: I first installed the recommended "missing packages" (about 3GB). When MSFS restarted it was still not happy about the missing packages (that I apparently had just installed): It then entered a vicous cycle of restart, same message, download "missing packages", restart etc... I eventually admitted defeat and did a complete reinstall. I was hoping to avoid installing everything, so I made a backup copy of the Official folder before uninstalling. As I still got the "missing packages" error message, I could not see any other solution than downloading everything from scratch... Luckily I got some very decent download speeds courtesy of my VPN: If it had given me the "usual" 3Mbps it would have taken me 103hrs, 42mins and 13secs - that's more than 4 days 😅 But seriously - they really need to sort out the appalling download speeds without the user having to resort to "exotic methods". Hopefully I'll be able to copy the World Updates from the Official folder backup to avoid downloading them again. Highly recommended: When a large update (or a complete reinstall) is needed, I highly recommend using a VPN and trying out different servers. Doing this I've been able to increase download speeds from a puny 3Mbps to over 300Mbps. Canadian servers have worked best so far (for some reason, I live in Europe). Selecting a custom folder during MSFS installation Use FastCopy to speed up making a backup of the Official folder Before reinstalling MSFS I tried this (in vain): Signing out then in to MS Store and the Xbox app Leaving SU15 beta Several system restarts Choosing MSFS repair then reset in Windows 11 settings => Apps => Installed apps I tried various Windows repair options (PowerShell as admin): dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth sfc /scannow dism /online /cleanup-image /analyzecomponentstore dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup chkdsk /f chkdsk /r I reinstalled gaming services (PowerShell as admin): get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN When everything works, MSFS is glorious. But word not allowed like this is driving me crazy 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️