I read the update notes, remove any MODS that may be affected by the update and have one flight before putting any MODS back into the new Community folder.Īny new MS/Asobo Airports I already have a MOD for, get one flight to check, then get removed from the official folder to remove conflict e.g. Once I’m finished, I then stop MSFS, rename my Community folder and start the update. If I want to fly on update day, I start MSFS before it drops, then have a flight or three. on WU6, I started it and retired to the settee to watch a few episodes of Hawaii 5-0… I did one stop-start, it wanted 16 gb but leaving it worked. On WU3 that worked, yet on 4 and 5 it didn’t and I had to download the whole thing all over again. In past update cycles, I’ve gone to bed and left it. I lose patience and pause the download, stop MSFS, stop Steam, restart Steam, restart MSFS. Update of 2.67 gb required, it downloads 2.67, repeatedly restarting. The download and install proceeds to within a few megabytes of the end…then hangs in a continuous unending loop. This is why MSFS behaves unlike 99.99% of other software on Steam when choosing to verify files and a simple but effective solution to stop people from being caught offguard because of it. Might seem a bit weird at first but it’s always nice to have the choice of how your computer and the programs on it behave. Naturally, this will also appear when someone tries to uninstall the game through Steam too. When someone sees this after clicking the verify button, they can make a conscious choice of if they want to delete all the content and redownload again, or, they can choose to halt that process from running and save themselves the bother of suddenly finding they need to download 150GB. It seems the simplest solution would be for this singular file provided with the game files be altered in such a way that when it is run, a popup window appears warning of what is about to occur: Given that MS / Asobo have written this CustomInstaller.exe for a singular purpose of deleting content when it is called for a single title. Given the above and the extremely unlikely event of changes by Valve / Steam that could potentially impact many of the hundreds of thousands of products they sell. This gets interesting if you ever read the Steamworks documentation as when it talks about install scripts and the run process on uninstall condition, they point out this is also called by the verification process and go as far as telling develpers not to use this function to call a program that will delete game files. The custom installer then proceeds to read the UserCFG.opt file for the location of the “InstalledPackages” path and deletes the contents. If you read the install script you’ll find that the custom installer is executed under the condition “Run Process On Uninstall” with a command line argument “clean STEAM”. One is the InstallScript.vdf and the other is the CustomInstaller.exe. Microsoft provide some files with the game that integrate with Steam functions. Strictly speaking, this is in fact not a bug but a feature. I’m going to take the time to post some information here along with my suggestion for how to resolve the problem based on what is happening. For that matter is there anybody at Steam? I don’t suppose there’s anybody at Steam who can explain why this keeps happening. I knew from previous experience with Steam’s verification/validation process, or whatever it’s called, that asking Steam to check my files would result in their total annihilation and that I’d have to download the whole enchilada, again. I uninstalled it in case it was somehow interfering with MSFS (which made no sense), but MSFS still crashed. I hadn’t changed anything on my PC since yesterday, other than downloading a printer utility from HP. I have no idea what changed between yesterday afternoon and today. I had used MSFS 2020 for more than an hour without incident yesterday, and mostly without problems for several preceding days. I started Steam’s file verification today after MSFS repeatedly crashed when I chose an airport, a departure runway, and clicked on “Fly.” In fact I am in the middle of yet another massive forced download as I write this reply.
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