Had to replace the mobo, but same CPU, SDD and everything, so all looked just like the last time I shut down when I started up. But windows needed reactivating, which went fine. But MSFS won’t start, nothing happens when I click the icon on the desktop or ‘launch’ in the store. I am logged in the st…

Suddently it’s starting OK! Not sure, but I think what happend is when I reactivated windows, the PC was given a new name, DESKTOP_something, (new username?) I changed that back to what it was before. I also clicked ‘Repair’ in the app window, so not really sure what did it, but now it seems to run …

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New motherboard, MSFS won't start

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tamsini7744 November 11, 2021, 1:59pm 4

Are you able to launch MSFS if you directly click on the .exe from the installation folder?