I saw the issues that were happening with Update #5 and held off on installing. There is now a hotfix. What do I install now and in what order?
Any help
Steve
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#5 then the hotfix is the safest bet because there might be dependencies that prevent the opposite sequence.
If you try the hotfix first let us know the result.
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Usual procedure. Update on the Microsoft Store (or Steam client) first. Then launch the sim and do its own internal update.
This is not possible, as you require an update on the Microsoft Store/Steam client before you can install #5, and that will ALSO apply the hotfix.
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If you launch the sim, it should tell you that you have to update via the store. When you click to acknowledge that, it will shut down the sim and open the store to begin the update. If you already have 1.10.7.0, it will update to 1.10.8.0, then you can launch the sim and go - no more downloads. If you’re not at 1.10.7.0, one of two things will happen. It will either give you that version, along with the 900+MB download when you launch the sim and then make you go back and get 1.10.8.0 after. The other option is that it will combine both updates - you’ll get 1.10.8.0 in the Store (or Steam, or whatever), then get the large download on launch. All you can really do is launch the sim and let it do its thing. The updates are mandatory, so unless you want to disconnect from the outside world and fly in offline mode, you’re going to get all the updates.
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Thanks for that clarification.
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If I can tag on to this thread, I am still on 1.10.7.0. Starting the sim does not offer an Update as per usual. Nor can I find it on the Microsoft Store. I’ve turned the place upside down! There is, as you know, a button marked ‘Updates’ after a bit of thought it tells me ‘You’re good to go’ Any ideas? I have raised a Zendesk ticket but I thought I might as well ask here to.
Cheers, Ron
My situation seems identical to yours. Running well with 1.10.7.0, couldn’t find how/where to get the update, checked the Updates screen - nope, not there either. Rebooted the PC and suddenly had 1.10.8.0. PFM, I guess.
1.10.7.0 had new-to-me hesitation issues lasting sometimes 30 seconds or more before the freeze would thaw. Turned off blur, no difference. Flipped thru alias mode, no dif there either.
Now have issues with CH yoke/rudder USB - now-its-there, now-it-gone as if it never existed - that’s left me in debug mode, dead at the end of a runway with an idling motor. Where’ that flippin push cart guy when you need 'em. 
My installation updated in the background; no action taken on my part at all.
My installation is Microsoft Store.
Everything a-okay so far today… about three hours so far, and multiple takeoffs/landings.
This embarrassing. During the kerfuffle of the original CTD crisis a ‘fix’ was put forward to delete a piece of registry data. I forget which, but it sounded feasible. Fortunately I made a backup of the registry. Phew!
Anyway, the problem persisted and I forgot the registry hack as nothing seems to have changed.
After posting here I couldn’t leave it alone. From nowhere I remembered the registry backup. What’s to lose? Reinstated it, started the sim (albeit with no a lot of confidence) and Boom! ‘Update available’ the rest, as they say, is history. Thanks for listening.
And if anyone else tried that ‘fix’ I hope YOU made a backup. 
Good that you found it. I ‘cured’ my USB problem just now by removing both yoke/rudder device definitions plus two other generic ones. A reboot forced the devices to be re-recognized, and all seems back as it was.
Flight simulation, it’s a never ending adventure eh?.
On my steam copy I didn’t get the download part for the .8 hotfix, but it installed. Probably is such a minor update that it downloads as soon as you see the ‘checking for updates’ part
nope, it was just a hotfix to the ‘launcher’, no in-sim download needed.