Last night before going to bed I decided to flush the cache of the Windows Store by using the “WSReset.exe” command & also went into Windows settings and reset MSFS.
After doing so, Windows Store doesn’t recognize that I have FlightSim installed and if click to run MSFS on my PC – nothing happens!
Same thing after performing a system reboot.
MSFS does show up on the Windows store Library as available to install but if I try to do so it errors out after a few seconds. Same thing happens with Digital Ownership.
Having this issue as well, surely this must be hitting everyone who purchased through the MS Store?
For the record also have my sim installed on its own separate drive.
I really appreciate that someone has been smart enough to find a workaround, but this is ridiculous, the issue needs to be properly fixed by Microsoft not by having us run powershell commands and using third party software then having to remember to undo it all if and when it gets fixed.
I have the same issue, purchased MSFS Deluxe from the MS Store, MSFS installed to my C:, the large folder for Official and Community are on my D:, having to reconfigure every time.
No issues until some 200+ MB update Saturday Afternoon.
Tenpatrol, thank you so much for finding a workaround, I’m going to give it a try here shortly as it doesn’t look like there is any interest from Microsoft in fixing this in the short term.
If they ever bother to actually fix the problem, how do we go about undoing the workaround, is it literally as simple as just enabling gaming service via the services.msc or are there any other steps that will need to be taken?
Well, I do record things a lot for me first, so I can compare, and as we can never remember things perfectly, recordings ARE useful.
Indeed, previous recordings did help me greatly to find out my settings…
As I read above that some guys were worried to launch the sim and some couldn’t be bothered to do all the settings over and over, I thought it could actually help them realise it’s doable in a few minutes…
Free for some to label as whining; personally I label it as “complete dramatising”.
EDIT: on my YT video, already a user find it useful, as it confirms he is not alone to have this bug:
newworldorder568
“having the same issue. tried everything but no luck”
then later:
“ Thanks i will try this. hopefully they fix it soon”
Unless i see people who did loose them… i did TenPatrol’s trick and it worked, didn’t loose my hours, so give it a go.
(how the heck did you gather so many hours man:-) )
Thanks i will try this. hopefully they fix it soon”