A premise. I often see this warning even in recent threads:
We ask that all members not use General Discussion for help, troubleshooting, bug reports, or advice questions. Your topic has been moved to Community Support.
but the “Create a new Topic” frame has a “General Discussion & Community Support” item. How can I select only the latter?
For some reasons I had to download the whole data 7 times by now.
Is there a way to download only the corrupted or missing files?
Can I just backup the directory to an external disk and restore it when needed? It takes a lot of time anyway, but less than the 10-12 hours it needs to download.
Yes. Every time the game detects it’s missing the files it shows you a folder picker. Just point it to the folder that contains the game data (Official and Community folders).
But if you had to do it several times I would rather think about buying a new drive. That’s not normal. I’ve had the game since the beta in late winter of 2019 and have not fully reinstalled once. Changed the motherboard and other hardware several times since.
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It detects it’s missing all the files, I bet. My question was if it can detect (and fix) the missing or corruption of some of them only.
The PC is new and the SSDs too.
I had a lot of troubles to understand I had a bugged RAM module - check out this long thread.
Now I have another problem to solve (here I’m off-topic, anyway I’m going to talk a little about it so you can see the big scenario): after few seconds, minutes or even hours of flying my PC reboots.
It’s not a thermal problem and I don’t think it’s PSU related since it happens even when the CPU/GPU are almost in idle and stress-tests seem work fine like other games. But after a couple of resets, MSFS refuses to start again, crashing to desktop on startup. Deleting the data folder and downloading all the stuff again will recovery the game. Of course, before do this I tried to run sfc but nothing wrong was detected. I fly some time, then a reboot happens and all the fun begins again.
My wild guess is the reboots are due to some (others) hardware problems, while the consequent CTDs are due to some corrupted files in the data folder. Otherwise I cannot explain this behavior.
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