Well, I suppose it can be serious. ANd by, it, I mean that 150Gb + installation of MSFS2020. (Or is it now around the 80Gb mark since the X-Box version?)

As I left it previously, all was sort of going very well. MSFS looked pretty, behaved itself, had the bugs and the nuances that tend to plague new releases of a game. Think Cyberpunk 2077 and the complete shit storm around that. Day one was just a failure, graphics were not as good as anticipated, powerful systems were being brought to their knees in a whir of spinning fans and excess heat. Even more so when DLSS and ray tracing were switched on. It was a beta t best and Project Red just didn't want to acknowledge they messed up. They did, but I digress. Back to that 160Gb installation, E:\MSFS202\ (My installation path.)

So there I was, happily soaring over the White Cliffs of Dover, flashing through the Mach Loop, and doing canyon runs in the 747 in the Grand Canyon, not to mention other flights that in the real world would see me serving time. I had even managed to get myself the Honeycomb Yoke to add that little bit of realism to the sim, A beautiful bit of kit. Cue axis and switch assignment hell. The Yoke was fine, it was the X52 throttle unit that decided to be a party pooper.