Windows 10: Flight Simulator completely stuck in Content Manager

I'll be as specific as possible here: I just bought a brand new Alienware Aurora R11 primarily to run the Flight Simulator. I have it installed on my MSI Raider laptop but I wanted it to run 4K from my TV without heat throttling.

It is now stuck on the Content Manager at the very beginning. It keeps flashing between "Please Wait" and "Downloading asobo-aircraft-b787-10-0.1.35.fspackage" I have uninstalled and reinstalled, manually deleted all the downloaded files from "steamapp," rebooted, installed updated drivers, etc.

Hitting the "pause" button doesn't work. Same spinning circle. I have to kill the app via the Task Manager

The machine is hardwired to a strong Ethernet connection. I bought and downloaded the game on my laptop the night it came out with no problems whatsoever...it runs on it just fine.

It was recommended that I delete the AppData/Roaming folder after uninstalling, then rebooting and reinstalling. Same problem. And that folder goes right back to where I found it. \

I bought an entirely new machine for this sim and I have never seen a problem like this in my years on Steam. Please help.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator issue after Windows 10 Upgrade

Hi Rahul,



Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.



I suggest you to completely uninstall Microsoft Flight Simulator and check.

Refer the steps below to uninstall.

• Press “Windows key + X”, select Control panel.
• Open programs and features.
• In the list of installed programs, select Microsoft Flight Simulator, and then click
  Remove.

Note: If you have earlier versions of Flight Simulator in the list of installed programs, you will have to remove them in addition to Flight Simulator.



Reinstall the Flight Simulator.



Please reply to us if the issue still persist.

 

Flight simulator

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums

1. Which version of Windows are you currently using?
   
2. Which version of Flight simulator are you currently using?
   

I suggest you to contact
Flight simulator support, they will be able to assist you better.

Hope it helps.

Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Content Manager stuck in download of asobo-aircraft-b787

The installation of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has got to be the worst ever! Did anyone at Microsoft actually put some thought or test this out before release!??

Its just completely flaky! Crashes, freezes, gets stuck in unending downloads that keep resetting back to restart again...

Got to the opening screen with the aircraft, and then the Content Manager asking for a folder, and started downloading with the heading"

"TO COMPLETE THE INSTALLATION MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR WILL NOW DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL RECOMMENDED CONTENT".

Then there is a down-load progress bar displayed with a total to the right showing 95.15GiB...downloads start, and then it gets stuck in a repeating restart ....when

"Downloading asobo-aircraft-b787-10-0.35.fspackage..."

Gets to download varying amounts of this - from a few percent (as in 1% to 3%, or at times gets to around 27%) and then resets back to 0% and repeats....been doing that for an hour now and the overall download progress is pretty much at zero!

Given all the pre-user testing etc that went into the actual application itself its really a shame as much thought didnt go into the actual installation testing of the product release!

Frustrating as anything - any ideas on what the heck is going on would be appreciated.

***Moved from: Gaming on Windows 10***