Microsoft Flight Simulator - Can't Play

Saul Farrell · 28 Aug 2020 at 09:25

So I have a decent build - ryzen 5 3600 and rx 5700xt and more than adequate cooling but when I go to play MSFS it launches to the point where I can choose an airport to start off from, and then I press play, the bar at the bottom loads to 100% and then nothing happens. I've left it for 30 mins only to come back and it still be loading. I can see that the programme isn't freezing because the tips at the bottom are still moving around...

Josh · 28 Aug 2020 at 11:37

Posting in the huge thread might be a good place to start the troubleshooting.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/official-microsoft-flight-simulator-thread.18856864/

Saul Farrell · 29 Aug 2020 at 09:11

Josh said:
Posting in the huge thread might be a good place to start the troubleshooting.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/official-microsoft-flight-simulator-thread.18856864/

Ah okay thanks I hadn't seen that

Zeeflyboy · 29 Aug 2020 at 10:21

While I haven’t personally experienced many major issues there are definitely some going around. I think they rushed the launch too much!

They plan a patch for next week to solve a lot of these download and installation bugs apparently so it may be worth just waiting to see if that solves your issue before wasting too much time on it.

Saul Farrell · 31 Aug 2020 at 21:23

Zeeflyboy said:
While I haven’t personally experienced many major issues there are definitely some going around. I think they rushed the launch too much!

They plan a patch for next week to solve a lot of these download and installation bugs apparently so it may be worth just waiting to see if that solves your issue before wasting too much time on it.

Yeah after deleting and reinstalling twice I've finally got it to work! Man they really need to fix the issues lol! Some people have had to download it more times than me to get it to work!

jasonsony735 · 31 Aug 2020 at 23:53

Saul Farrell said:
So I have a decent build - ryzen 5 3600 and rx 5700xt and more than adequate cooling but when I go to play MSFS it launches to the point where I can choose an airport to start off from, and then I press play, the bar at the bottom loads to 100% and then nothing happens. I've left it for 30 mins only to come back and it still be loading. I can see that the programme isn't freezing because the tips at the bottom are still moving around...

What Ram do you have ? I have 32GB and the game uses 20GB before it loads on my pc.

Saul Farrell · 2 Sep 2020 at 19:39

jasonsony735 said:
What Ram do you have ? I have 32GB and the game uses 20GB before it loads on my pc.

I have 32GB and after several installs I've finally got it to work!