OP et-al, it took me two days of work, to get the update completed. The loop problem has a fix. Look for Continuous Loop thread, the fix is there for that. I usually get about 15MBTS normal speed on DL’s. Yeah, I know, sloooowwwww. But life is what it is. Upon initial game release it took me 5 days to get the whole thing. Had to reinstall once, that took 6 days.
One thing I did to prevent this in the future is to back up the game. It is located here - Drive\user profile\appdata\local\packages\MicrosoftFlightSimulator…8xxxxx\ = Backup this whole folder to another drive. It’s about 160 GBs in size. Then if ever you have to reinstall, all you need do is to uninstall the game, and then restart PC, then copy the game back to that place. Once you start it up, it will update any files which have changed.
There is just got to be something broken with the install process in this game. Reports of users with 100+MB connection, and taking all day. It’s also not a geographical area, but it appears to be random, but since no database on whom and where the slowdown occurs, no one has a firm handle on what it is. Several folks reported it to be their “Hosts.txt” file located in windows\system32 folder, but I do not have it, so that is not it for me.
But back to problem, once you follow steps to clear LOOP, try to update game again. If and when you are successful, let game load, then exit to desktop, restart PC, log back in, open command prompt as admin, and run these commands in order.
- SFC /scannow - let it finish, then:
- Chkdsk /f/r - This one will take while, system may ask for Y and restart, it will run after POST, before OS loads. Then, once logged back in try game. Because the loops, starts, stops, slowdowns, blah, blah, I am convinced the file structure in game is flawed. Running those two commands might fix file structure so it works, it did for me.
Some other gotchas, reports of general settings being reset to easy, change them to what you like, then apply and save, exit game, open game and see if they are still the way you set them. If so, they may stay, or maybe you will have them change again, mine did twice, then now set.
Honeycomb has new software out I have read, need to get it and install.
Also, you are one of I believe possibly 10’s of thousands having this issue, me among them. I never thought in my wildest imagination I would spend more time, fixing this game, and or debugging things as I do, I wish I could add this time to my total flight time, I would have 5000 hours.
Good Luck, give us an update so we know you were successful. Many folks have thrown up hands, and put game aside, I swore if I could not get it this time, I was in that group, but alas, I beat it down once again.
