I had been among the fortunate that through all updates before the latest, MSFS 2020 continued to function. However, with the latest update, MSFS 2020 takes many minutes to load, and once it does, the menus are so unresponsive that they are nearly non-functional. For example, the hangar animation seems to load at less than 1 FPS, and when I try to move the mouse from menu to menu, the menus do not respond, or are incredibly late to respond, to the extent that they do not work. Basically, I cannot move from the menus to the world to the cockpit -- or anything else, for that matter. To exit the program, I need to force quit using Windows Task Manager.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the issue persists after reinstallation. I used the add/remove software function in Windows, but I am not sure if it provides a "clean" uninstallation. If there is a better/more complete way to uninstall all files, please let me know.
The program is basically unusable.
Has anyone experienced this, and if so, do you have a solution? I understand and share the disappointment many have with the update process, which rendered a perfectly functioning program to this.
It is not the computer. Win 10, i9 10900K, 64 MB Ram, 2 TB HD, RTX 3090 FE, wireless/FiOS internet connection.
I have seen with other issues, folks suggest a clean install of Windows. I had to do that when I originally purchased MSFS 2020, where all packages would not download. I suppose I will do that as a last resort here, but I am not crazy about having to "nuke" an otherwise perfectly functioning computer just to make this software work again. It seems like an unreasonable solution to a problem that everyone has at some point or another.
Thanks in advance.