Flight sim will not open when launching from steam

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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No I have not made changes nor do I use it

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Yes I have

Brief description of the issue:

I click play on steam and it says launching, it doesnt actually launch, then the button says start again. Basically it CTD’s before even opening the app.

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

press play on steam when not launched in administrator

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NVIDIA, version 551.52

PC specs and peripheral set up:

Gtx 1070, AMD ryzen 3 3200g,

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there are no crash logs on event viewer

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

Most recent update


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I got it to work but it needed steam to be launched as administrator. This has never been an issue before this.

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