i was prepping to watch some netflix when i loaded in the sim public release for the first time and to my sudden shock, the progress bar just went…
ZIIIIIP from left to right and the sim was downloaded and i was at the initial settings screen.
Anyone else?
Did you get to play right away too? I thought so too but now It’s stuck on the big TBM splash screen with the blue progress bar stuck for hours at the bottom. No indication of network activity in task manager either 
yes Curlier, im in the sim finalizing a flight loading,
@TunefulLlama39 East Coast US, Atlanta GA
Vancouver, BC
By “hours” I mean the last 40m or so, since it only released 57m ago here in Canada, heh. But ya, not sure if this is a “downloading, please wait” screen, or game boot? I got an initial UI customization screen where I selected the font size etc, then it took me here.
Tried restarting the app incase it’s stuck, but it came back to the same screen after clicking “any key to continue” and same position in the progress bar.
Must be a downloading activity progress bar? It’s not labelled.
Same thing happening to me.
Ok so following the slow download troubleshooting (after a fresh restart) helped for me. Go to zendesk in their top nav here and then find that pinned FAQ and follow the command prompt and firewall instructions there. I have a feeling in my case that my firewall was blocking access and for some reason not prompting me. Got a different screen now (smaller window) with the download progress bar showing % etc.
ALT+TAB would have shown you the active windows and Windows Defender Firewall would have been one of those tabs
either way, im loving downloading the Sim Content at nearly 90MB/Sec, for all those not knowing the difference, 90MB is like 900 Mbit in conversion of speed terms. 
I have the same issue, I also stuck on the big TBM too
See my tip above. Did that work for you?
Are you actually watching your line speeds to see if its a consistent 90MB/s?. I am looking at the speeds right now at the gateway and they peaked at 64MB/s or 500mbit a few times but for the most part it fluctuates around 8-40MB/s.
I did as your tip it works now, thanks, it is downloading now.
I was having a similar problem - my speeds were so slow that I wasn’t even getting the dialog box that said an update was available after almost an hour of waiting. I ran the following as suggested on the Flight Simulator FAQ mentioned above:
If you are experiencing slow download speed when downloading Microsoft Flight Simulator, please do the following:
- In the Windows search bar, type Command and look for ‘ Command Prompt ’
- In the menu select “ Run as administrator ”
- Enter:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal- Press enter
I’m now getting close to my rated ISP download speeds (~120Mbps). I’m located in Washington State. There seems to be a (I’m guessing) separate issue that is related to your geographic region as well that I believe this command won’t fix.
it works for me.
yup, peaked out at 992 Mbit roughly 91.3 MByte and was pretty consistent.
i am a IT Professional, i know how to maintain my own connect with very little assistance from the ISP. in fact, i even provided the Fiber conversion box, all i needed was the actual fiber line ran from the street to the side wall of my home and the Fiber Interface controller from the ISP.
Same here.. Im a Network Engineering with a Cisco background… My entire home is behind my own Ubiquiti Infra but thats irrelevant… This seemed to be a peering issue with Amazon’s Cloudfront CDN at the time I posted. I kept getting directed to a server on the westcoast according to Wireshark which I later found out was already near max capacity.
I’m sure there was something closer to me (Bermuda) like a US East/Central even EMEA or APAC CDN that would’ve provided a better UX.
i was hitting Chicago during my download @ 99.222 IP ( no i wont post the entire IP for obvious reasons )
CS Masters, CISSP, CCNA And MCSA Associates, and 18 trade Certs here for me.
Hardware Networking and Cyber Security focuses for me
Niceee, The org I am currently supporting uses Juniper unfortunately for their core/edge routing & switching so my talents are slowly going to waste (my fault).. I’ve basically let the syntax difference become my own stumbling block and because of that I’ve found a new drug (SCCM) which can be more challenging/interesting at times imo.
I’m about to get off work and jump on the sim
Happy flying mate!
oooooh SCCM , not gonna spoil that one for ya 
if you saw my network ( a Full Cat6a 10Gig LAN Side ) and my WAN Portals you would be like… ehh? W H A T are you doing from your home !!
lol You don’t even have to explain, I can only imagine. If you seen my setup its totally overkill as well. 802.11x radius auth on the exposed switches powering the outdoor cams, IPS/DPI running, VLANS for everything, rules for days, Next paycheck Ill be adding a LTE modem for WAN failover which will get used for sure during Hurricane season here in Bermuda.
I posted this on reddit sometime ago which only a diehard OCD engineer would do lol
https:// www. reddit .com/r/homelab/comments/fh5z7y/shortened_a_sfp_dac_because_my_cable_mgmt_ocd_is/