After being out of town for a week I’m finally getting into installing the update. Everything seems to update fine, but after loading into the main menu I keep getting a popup that says “Essential Packages Update” with the option to install or update later. I’ve clicked install half a dozen times …

Exactly the same issue here. Started about 3 weeks ago. One day all was good the next I had to go through the 5 step setup process. Feel I’ve gone through every recommended fix that I and AI have found online but without success. My twist is that I had been waiting on delivery of a new PC when the…

thank you for the reply… The only thing I had not tried was signing out and back in. That does not seem to do the trick either. If I ignore it then it seems to be working like it should. This is the first time I’ve had any issues with MSFS so not sure. Clicking install looks like it restarts the…

That did not work either. I did the steps that was shown as the solution https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fixed-on-live-1-19-8-0-you-are-missing-packages-that-are-essential-to-run-microsoft-flight-simulator-please-update-the-application-and-try-again/427269/388 It did do a little update when …

I appreciate the help and trying to point me in the right direction.

I have had this same issue for about a month now and it was pretty angering and made the game not worth even playing. I did find a fix for me however and I hope it can help one of you guys out. I downloaded the xbox app and had to be signed into the proper xbox account that I was using with msfs. Bu…

Same here :sob: After clean PC via store installation, everything fine, but after 1st full download and 1st configs setup, it requires “Essential Packages Update”, and it stucks in this: [msfs_stucked.PNG] Tried Everything. Bug, please advice.

Solved: It worked after reviewing services: my Xbox ones whas disabled, once set to manual FS got updated and run ok: [msfs_services] Hope it heps!

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Stuck on Essential Packages Update

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RexJaneway October 1, 2022, 7:28am 10

Same issue here, tried everything and still stuck.