Well, I messed up my PC screwing around with it in fixing a problem
that I had made myself.
FS2020 started giving me CTDs and BSODs, etc…
So, I have to re-download it completely. (10/25/2023)
Download speed is crawling at below 100 Kbps.
It will take around around a week or more.
Note:
Speedtest.net shows my connection has a 368 Mbps download speed.
Edit:
Download screen is different.
I can’t see a download speed in that image as it is decompressing something already downloaded.
I don’t know what it is doing.
Never had this problem before with many downloads of FS2020.
Task Manager shows intermittent incoming blocks of traffic at below 100 Kbps.
That could be Windows update running a scan, or any number of processes you have running in the background.
If the window is stating it is decompressing then it is not downloading. It can’t do both. If you ever were to look in your Onestore/Official folder you would see 1 or more files that comprise a package you are downloading. It may be stuck on one of these.
What you can do is close the sim down, go into that folder and delete the files in the root. They are easy or spot as that top level folder should have no files in it at all, only folders. Then relaunch the sim, and try again. It will be forced to download that package again, and hopefully this time be successful.
Thanks for the reply.
I have only FS2020 on my D: drive.
So, I formatted it.
New install still looks different.
It is down loading at around 344 Mbps.
But, does not pause like before to decompress.
So, I’ll wait to see what it does.
Edit: 2:07 PM
Still looks strange.
13/518 with 70 GB of 127 GB downloaded.
And no decompressing.
Edit: 2:15 PM
And it stopped downloading.
And shows decompressing.
Task Manager shows incoming data at < 10Mbps.
So, it is still downloading but at such a slow rate.
Edit: 2:27 PM
I don’t know if it is:
Throttling by my ISP.
Throttling by the MS servers.
My PC.
The download program.
Edit: 3:20 PM
13/518 with 118 Gb of 127 GB and 93%.
Download speed increased to around 100 Mbps.
Edit: 3:27 PM
Download seems to have stopped, 100%.
But decompressing remains to be stuck.
Edit: 3:57 PM - Edit - not solved, See edit below.
Remembering reply from @hobanagerik that the decompressing is from the PC.
I did a search on where the stuck decompressing file was.
Surprising, it was on my Backup USB drive in a Folder FS2020 on the
K: drive.
MFS2020 is in the FS2020folder on the D: drive.
I unplugged my Backup USB drive.
Download started running again and doing the decompressing from 13 of 518.
Thanks, @hobanagerik .
Edit: 7:05 PM
Formatted D: drive again.
New download started.
Same problem.
Downloading without decompressing.
11/518 with 12GB of 127 GB at 10%
Stopped the download.
I can’t decide where the problem is.
Or what to do except re-install Windows 11.
Solved Solution removed.
Final Edit: 10/26/2023 - Problem Resolved.
After several attempts to get a working download due to problems with the
decompressing of the files on my PC, I finally found a solution.
My PC is i9-13600K on Z790 with 64 GB of 7200 DDR5.
On this Gigabyte MB, Z790 Gigabyte AORUS Elite AX, I normally run it at
5 GHz and max 6400 with XMP.
Solution:
I set the BIOS to defaults which is 3.5 Ghz and 4800 non XMP.
Started the install and it completed without error.
Remember that Task Manager shows the rate of the network adapter, not any particular piece of software. You could be downloading a movie from Netflix, Task Manager would show lots of traffic, but you might not even have MSFS open at that time.
I agree but the FS2020 installation screen shows an increase in the downloaded GBs and an increase in the percentage.
It is still downloading but very slow.
Edit: 8:53 PM
It downloaded until it finished and then started the
decompressing which hung.
See edit to previous reply nbr 5.
Edit: 1/26/2023 at 7:43PM EST
Solution was to change the BIOS to defaults which lowered the
DDR5 memory to 4800 non XMP.
FS2020 install ran without error.
