Installing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
I use a Win10 (1909) MSI Cx62 6QD laptop, i7, nvidia 940MX, 16Gb ram, 500Gb SSD.
I bought the ten DVD set.
After 24 hours I still have NOT successfully installed msfs!!
It crashes to the Desktop (CTD) before completing the install. It gets as far as “World Improvements” – Spain/ Portugal etc. then crashes.
There’s a long thread (going back to 2019) on “failure to install – CTD”
The main successful solution seemed to be:
cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App –FastLaunch
This was tried numerous times…
Working in safe mode
While checking for upgrades – black screen – blue line at bottom, then CTD.
Checked for Win 10 upgrades – installed the latest Win10 upgrade 21H2
Removed the Realtek Audio 11.8.21 6.0.1.866
Tracked the error through Event Viewer:
Module d3ll.dll Ver 10.0.0.19041.1202
Exception code 0xc0000005
RE-tried the – Fast Launch
This time it looked for Updates and showed 92Gb as “Mandatory Update”
Rebooted laptop
Retried the – Fast Launch
Got to “Checking for updates”, Black screen, Blue line (about 50%) then CTD!!!
Looking back on things, I do note that msfs raised a message “Your computer doesn’t meet minimum requirement and performance may be compromised.” The MSI spec (see above) looks OK???
Where do I go from here? Need help.