I can understand why as it’s effectively an online game you have to download core updates as they interface server side API’s. Star Citizen for example also forces you to download updates however minor they are although admittidly that game is still in Alpha (ok I’m not going to say it!)…
We have treat ourselves to drinks once our predictions come true
Let me say this:
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All sims are released terribly broken isn’t fine
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10 years of debugging aren’t what I bought
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I was enjoying it, before the patch
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Third parties are meant to enhance the experience, not to fix it
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If I’m flying I’m not whining, do your maths
I get your point
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You do get that he was being ironic right?
Where is the downvote button? My sim is completely vanilla and I am having those issues.
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I actually hit the “Reset” button and am currently in the process of reinstalling all 130+ GB… not what I wanted to do this evening. I’ll post results when I have them… about 1/3 of the way through right now.
Thank you for that. That information, or something else I have done, has fixed the problem. Back to being happy again
Do you seriously think your post has helped this thread in anyway? a 10 year promise? how does that help if the sim crashes NOW! Are you seriously saying we should all Stop whining and be grateful knowing in 10 years this sim will be flyable? How ridiculous and even arrogant of you to even suggest such a thing. Honestly Its rather disingenuous to make such flippant remarks that offer zero help to the community, you offer zero help only sarcasm …SO never mind us whining…May i suggest you stop posting unhelpful comments! Our whining is justified criticism of a patch that causes more problems than it claims to solve! I have already reported this patch to Zendesk for crashing when loading a converted airplane in the community folder,…what’s the point of a community folder if any community contributions crash the sim when the next FORCED patch is released?
Hopefully the great team who are behind this sim will resolve these issues shortly, BUT patches SHOULD NOT be forced on us! WE SHOULD at least HAVE THE OPTION of deferring them until we know 100% they are A/ Useful and B/ they don’t break our sim! If this is how Microsoft/asobo are going to try to sort ANY FUTURE problems out they will only create more than they solve! They need to stop forcing patches on us! LIKE THE TITLE OF THIS THREAD STATES…who is testing these updates???
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Uh, use the /s filter. FishDude is on your side
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You should only have to reinstall the 900MB app, not the data as well. Quite often, the act of complete re-install is just a placebo. But I wish you every success 
I didn’t sign up for it… took me completely by surprise. Happened when I hit the Reset button. 
Headed to KSFO in the DA62 as I type this post… we’ll see how frame rates do…
Here is an Idea ( Directed to Microsoft )
How about making FSX “register-able” again, and let everyone who purchased MSFS 20202 ( you now who they are, their computers talk to you), download a “Complimentary” copy of FSX.
Cost to Microsoft – very little
PR benefit to MS - Enormous
Luckily, I still have my FSX CDs and loads of addons purchased and developed over the life of FSX,
I’ll be back flying “realistically” this weekend, and if I don’t look too hard out of the cockpit window, I will be so much happier and so much less frustrated, as I have been over the last few weeks .
I will also save HOURS of my life, wasted in waiting for MSFS 20202 to load … that music is now so strongly associated with frustration and disappointment, that I sure wont miss that.
Be back in a few months to see if the Christmas Update makes thing any better.
Pilot Edge - Vatsim, here I come !!!
That was discussed in another thread recently. Basically the 'Reset App Data’ button will delete all package data and force a redownload and reinstall next time you open the app.
What’s the point of the community folder if every update/patch renders the content unplayable and makes the sim crash? I’ve converted some of my old FSX aircraft which looked and flew great, but now since the 1.8.3.0 patch they just crash the sim. This will happen again and again…we may as well permanently delete the community folder and be forced to accept only pay ware and Microsoft/asobo ‘approved content only’ which kinds of defeats the object of a community folder.
I was on the tech alpha and beta testing and its frustrating when our comments and findings/reports etc were often left ignored with zero feedback or communication from their side! Once again we have patches…untested being released on the community without proper testing or consideration.
Fine i understand the sim comes first and not the community addons or personal moderated content…but for the love of god at least let US decide if we want our sim updated or not…so those who do decide to update can report issues and feedback…thus allowing the rest of us to make a decision without having it forced upon us…hell i didn’t even get a chance to defer the update…the sim just says an update needs to be applied before i can load it up! At least at X plane you get the choice of installing a beta update!
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You can read my last sentence where I stated: “I get your point” right?
The good news is, since turning off the Developers option, the software is back to “normal” after the complete reinstall. I’ve logged five or six hours so far, with little to report other than having fun flying!
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I have the same problem no battery power.
Oh ya, Ooooh, Aaaah that’s how it always starts, but then later there’s running…and…screaming.
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lol! Funny you should say that. I had a CTD for no apparent reason just minutes ago.
There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme nor reason. But then I think, "It took four or five years for FSX to become stable enough to run without crashes or hangs. 
I’m pretty impressed with this software a mere thirty days in…
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Typically when a version is sent to test, QA’s objective is to determine suitability for release. They get a certain amount of time + people to test it.
Dev hopes QA doesn’t find any “stop ship” bugs because that means Dev has to fix the bug(s) and resubmit. Resubmitting means another QA test cycle which causes the release to delay at least by the additional testing duration.
Bugs in code are not allowed to be fixed in the version being tested usually. Data can sometimes be changed. Text is easy to change.
Sometimes bugs can be fixed but it can be a noisy negotiation between Dev and QA.
It is never Dev that makes the call to release. MSFT has the financial investment in the product and decides when to release ultimately. Money always has the last word.