My experience exactly. Since receiving this program as a gift on August 18, 2020, I have reinstalled MS FS2020 eleven (11) times, edited registry keys, booted with a limited set of drivers, disabled other programs, etc. You know the drill. The program will run perfectly for 2 to 7 days after a reinstall, then go into into what I call the permanent fail-to-load mode where right after “Checking for Updates” I would see a black screen with a blue thermometer that progesses to the 80% mark and no farther. After version 1.18.14 and 1.18.15, were installed, it started hanging at the same spot, but instead of a black screen I’m asked to install mandatory updates again; the same updates that were already loaded! The Store and the app settings report that 1.18.15 is installed . A Microsoft Tech has witnessed this behavior, downloaded logs from my system, and after two weeks has no answers. I too have XPlane 11 and look forward to version 12. While FS 2020 shows much promise, it fails to run for too many of us.
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