Brief description of the issue:When starting MSFS, it is asking to insert MSFS game disc, but it was downloaded. Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered: [image] Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:Simply start MSFS

To all those experiencing the ‘Game Disc’ issue: I know I can reproduce it every single time I want by leaving my firewall on before launching the game. I hope this helps in troubleshooting the issue. I use GlassWire, which is basically Windows Firewall with a more practical ‘skin’. The executable …

[image] SteepFarez: The executable for MSFS is obviously whitelisted, but that doesn’t help. You say its obvious, but do you know for sure? Have you checked? Do you have handcrafted firewall rules, or did you allow the pop-up prompt to create defaults for you? Get-NetFirewallRule -DisplayN…

Sorry for the late reply, missed the notification. I know for sure the rules are handcrafted, since the pop-up is indeed hit and miss. Gave a go to powershell (again) right now and the output looks like the one you posted - aside from the {GUID} sections, of course. My post was only to offer a po…

You should be able to amend the rule so that it does not show something like: C:0\flightsimulator.exe But instead just: flightsimulator.exe It won’t matter where that executable is then. It could be abused, like renaming malware to match a filename you know is allowed access, but it might be wo…

Just had this happen for the first time. None of the recommended procedures seemed to help. Even attempted to uninstall and reinstall and that failed as well… wondering what’s going on here.

[Desktop Screenshot 2022.03.27 - 13.51.17.50] today does this there is never an end to the mess

@VOY3141FRAN If you’re using the MS Store version of MSFS, make sure you have the xbox app installed and then: Close MSFS and sign out of MS Store and Xbox app. Restart your PC. Sign back into MS Store, then xbox app, then launch MSFS from there. If that doesn’t help, try this from earlier in thi…

I should fix it by installing it again but I don’t want to see that it takes two days there are frequent problems with the sim that never works discreetly not well but discreet anyway I don’t have the disk version

[image] anon89735689: I should fix it by installing it again No you shouldn’t. Why don’t you just follow the steps posted that are known to resolve your issue?

I know steps already made I restarted as well but it does not change yesterday it started and today I am not getting tired of this sim I would like to have one thing working and not a problem a day but I see that it is impossible

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today does this there is never an end to the mess