I installed a new SSD to my system, had to reinstall MSFS 2020 (no biggie, did it many times these past 5 years). This time though, the install is getting stuck on the same part. After reading all of the information I could find (without resolution of the problem), I am reaching out for help.
I have deleted the old installs, changed the initial install location several times, put it another SSD drive, the game will download then get stuck on (guessing ??) file 453/534 (file 453 ??)
After reading the forums here (again) I had an idea, and managed to get a screenshot of the file name, (it goes too fast, is on the screen for 1 seconds or less). I found the fspackage managed to get rid of it, however it is still attempting to decompress it.
What’s next?
Will it download to your original location? If so, I’d suspect a bad SSD, it downloads until it hits a bad memory cell. I’d also run a memory test on all your ram and all he hard drives. When I insalled a new SSD nothing worked but alas it wasn’t the new drive that was bad; it was the old one that had worked fine before. Computers do funny things and sometimes make no sense.
Which program do you recommend to scan/test the SSD?? This is something I had not considered but it makes a LOT of sense.
Look up OCCT. It’s free and will scan a cd report on many parts of your computer.
Yes, I didn’t expect the SSD either. Here’s what happened. I wanted a new 2TB drive to be the primary and the older 1TB drive as a secondary. I cloned the system to the new drive and then switched the new drive to the fastest slot and the previously working old drive to the secondary slot. And the computer would not start. My locla computer shop determined the presence of the old drive was stopping the computer from booting. Took it out and computer runs fine. There are probably other progams to test an SSD. When I had a bad piece of ram, OCCT showed it immediately but I haven’t tried it on my SSD. Best wishes and good luck.
(edit) You could also try CrystalDiskInfo (another free progarm) and windows built in check ,CHKDSK.
Finally got it loaded, then it started to CTD. However, I remembered this happening before, did a search, found out I had to delete a BUNCH of 190* files from a certain folder, VOILA it worked.
I am going to do a scann with that program OCCT to test out the drive, however putting the sim on my C drive did work.
Thanks for the help!!!
Many years ago I built a computer of FSX. I got some online help from someone who claimed to balance computer for optimum performance within your budget. Whatever, it worked and that computer is still used as a word processor and photo depository. He stated he was and ex Microsoft employee. He stated to put FSX on the C drive because that’s where it was designed to go. I can’t verify his claims, but his advice worked. Use a second drive for anything else but keep flight simulators on the C drive with the operating system. Glad it’s working again.
Also wanted to add, changing out the new SSD for another (sent it back) and that worked. Not sure if changing the install to C drive was the fix, however, once I had the new SSD installed things really took off (no pun intended), lol