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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No
Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?
There are no mods or third party addons. This is a fresh install.
Brief description of the issue:
My MSFS 2020 is a Windows Store PC install. It is fresh, no addons, etc. I just built a new machine for MSFS 2020. The sim has never worked. I have never been able to fully load the sim successfully. I get as far as the New Activities screen (where the mouse disappears and the blue progress bar at the bottom completes), then nothing more happens. It does not appear to crash, there is simply no more discernable activity. The sim is stalled.
I have tried several ideas from the internet and even from this forum. I have rebooted the machine, restarted the sim, started the sim as admin, gone into settings to try Repair, Reset and Uninstall. I ran repair on the Microsoft Store. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times. I have verified all updates for Windows 11 Pro and Nvidia. I even bought and installed a second nvme 2 TB drive and installed the sim on that. No change effected by any of these attempts. The sim continues to behave in exactly the same way.
The other notable software titles installed are Office/Outlook, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2022, SQL Server Management Studio, Firefox and Star Wars Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (yes, that’s an old game but still fun). BTW, the Star Wars game loads and runs fine.
The only steps to reproduce I can offer is to just try and start the sim. I am not doing anything else, except sometimes trying Run as Admin. No difference. I never get to the sims starting screen, so I have no access to its menus or anything.
I’d appreciate any suggestion as to how to proceed. I simply don’t understand why this thing won’t load. All my hardware is well within requirements and I have 4 TB of drive space not counting other installs. Thank you all in advance.
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Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-12700K 3.61 GHz
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable) DDR5 4800
Graphics Nividia GeForce RTX 3090
Nvidia driver version 516.94
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 21H2
Installed on ‎9/‎6/‎2022
OS build 22000.978
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.978.0
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