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Thanks everybody. Please forgive my late response but I took the key advice and sent my laptop off to have a SSD installed. All works perfectly now. Thank you again

Hey Folks, At last I finally managed to get a new laptop that should have allowed me to play MSFS easily. The main specs are: CPU: i7 10750H @ 2.60Ghz GPU: NVIDIA 1650 RAM: 16 GB DDR4-2933 Mhz HDD: Hitachi 1 TB SATA III OS : Windows 10 Pro I first tried to download through STEAM. After 2 weeks of effort, I gave up. Never got it to work. They were kind enough to refund me without a quibble after I explained all the errors that had arisen. I then downloaded directly from Microsoft Store. The download and installation seemed to go well but starting it meant sitting quietly for up to 8 minutes while waiting for it to open properly... I have experimented with online and offline and with medium to lowest settings, in particular on graphics. However, I cannot get the simulator to run smoothly at all. Frame rate is very unstable and in the region of 10 fps. But, to me, the confusing stat is that my GPU has yet to go above 12% usage. In short, I am getting nowhere. May I ask if anyone can identify something I am doing totally wrong? Or should I just give up and go back to FSX - for which this laptop is not optimised.... Thank you. Ian

Hey Folks, Recently returned to FSX - now in STEAM. I am having real difficulties getting it going reliably - sometimes takes over 10 attempts. When going it is fine. I need some help in sorting this out. Is there a special forum or group that is recommended? Thank you. Ian