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  1. All the credit in the world to Reddit user ShotgunFarmer1 for finding a solution I never would have considered. This solved it for me. As he and user CussdomTidder wrote, there must be some conflict between MSFS's display drivers/usage and Citrix Workspace's display drivers/usage. Closing Citrix does not solve it. Instead, it must be uninstalled (presumably removing hidden, but always running, components). Bummer, in that I will need to uninstall Citrix before every MSFS session and reinstall after (removing it entirely is not an option because I remote into my office at least nightly). But, better than reinstalling MSFS every time! And no nuking of my machine!
  2. So it sounds like it's not my machine or settings. I suppose my best course of action is to wait for the November update, then try a clean install. If not that, then the "nuclear" option is next. Between now and then I can copy anything I don't want to lose to an external HD.
  3. 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.
  4. My Flight Sim journey began at age 13 when I was in grade school with 5.1 on CD on a Packard Bell and continued to 95 and 98, although the latter two never captured me like 5.1 did. Particularly with 5.1, I remember sitting at my school desk, doodling the Cessna's instrument panel in my marble composition tablets. In my mind's eye, I can picture so many sim-related web sites, virtual airlines, webrings, banner exchanges, etc. I still could rattle off names of aircraft and scenery designers, all of whom I hope are still with us. (Sadly, I saw a couple are not.) Education and then life then interjected. A couple months ago, my brother sent me a link to the MSFS announcement. Approaching 40, it was like being a kid again. A lot of the sites I knew are (and have been) long gone -- but thankfully, not FlightSim.com. I would love to see a renaissance of what seemed to me the golden era of flight simulation. I never tried Prepar3D, although I understand it is the tour de force of the X engine's development. Having effectively moved from 5.1 through 98's blocky scenery tiles and largely generic structures, MSFS is visually mind-blowing. Sure, up close, it could be refined, but knowing where flight simulation was to where it is now, I can never seriously complain about visuals. My machine still isn't up to the task -- talk about a nostalgic feeling -- but I am itching to do what I could not do (or convince my parents to do) as a child -- get the newest tech with the most powerful graphics card (I remember when the "VooDoo" cards came out; I want a 3090 now like I wanted a VooDoo then). It's good to be back. I never realized how much I missed simming and its community.
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