MSFS Installation CHECKSUM tool

Can across this on GitHub… very Cool

Introduction

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS2020) has a ton of data packages. However, I don’t seem to find that Microsoft provides a user-visible data integrity verification mechanism. So I wrote this little tool in Rust: it can automatically locate the location of MSFS2020 packages, and compute its hash value for each file. After the calculation is complete, you can compare it to hashes computed by other users with the same MSFS version to determine if there is any file corruption.

This tool uses the 128-bit xxHash algorithm (aka XXH128) and automatically uses all CPU cores for parallel computing… So it generates hashes very fast, and the performance bottleneck is almost solely determined by the read speed of your hard drive.

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Might be very helpful to help user diagnose any corrupted files in their install of MSFS, if here was an
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** OFFICIAL “Computed Hash”**
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for files in each Version of MSFS ??

I notice that pms50 includes a similar checksum tool for his GTN750 Garmin GPS :+1:

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Note: Takes some time to run, to read all those file, and produce about a 18 Meg Text file.

Now I have it, what can I compare mine with ??