thevoice Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Unfortunately I need to do an uninstall of msfs 2020 Steam edition but I cannot find all the "hidden folders", bits and pieces I need to also remove before I do a reinstall. Is there a step by step guide out there.... or can someone walk me through please. Help someone please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patinthedesert Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 do a search on MSFS 2020 clean uninstall. Or MSFS 2020 clean uninstall for Steam. You will get results. I did the same thing earlier today. I simply could not resolve the problem where the Flight sim window just vanished. So now I am reinstalling after doing the cleanup. The first time since I originally installed 7 months ago. But the download is taking forever. Wish me luck. Hope it works for you too. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc2 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 I had to do a reinstall as well, it took 12+ hours over a 400meg/sec connection (which it never came close, lol) Windows 10 Pro, 32 gigs DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GForce RTX 3070, Intel I7 10700 running at 3.8, with Noctua NH-L9x65, Premium Low-Profile CPU Cooler-HP Reverb G2 for Virtual Reality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patinthedesert Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 It is taking an extreme long time. I have had download going for something like 16 hours. The download speed never exceeds 20 Mbps and is often down around 6 or 7. I assume it is the servers as my connection is good for at least 40. It puts me at 76% complete right now. And I assume I will have to do more when I get to Content Manager. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc2 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 It is taking an extreme long time. I have had download going for something like 16 hours. The download speed never exceeds 20 Mbps and is often down around 6 or 7. I assume it is the servers as my connection is good for at least 40. It puts me at 76% complete right now. And I assume I will have to do more when I get to Content Manager. Pat Yes, but not as bad. I think it took me 20 minutes to get the World Updates I was really interested in. I never got above 40 either. I started it at 1pm, went to bed at 10pm (60% ish), got up at 6am to find it all installed. Windows 10 Pro, 32 gigs DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GForce RTX 3070, Intel I7 10700 running at 3.8, with Noctua NH-L9x65, Premium Low-Profile CPU Cooler-HP Reverb G2 for Virtual Reality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patinthedesert Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Update: It completed about 1 PM. Then I added just a couple of packages from Content Manager, which were a couple of earlier World Updates for USA and Great Britain. I have tested and it is working. Well after I figured out about the blue knobs problem on the instrument panel. Tried to set the altitude for the Autopilot and it would not let me change it at all. Now I have fixed the setting. Flew a good flight in DA40 but crashed the landing due entirely to pilot error. But at least I am back to flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aptosflier Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 I did what I thought was a clean uninstall/reinstall of my Steam edition MSFS yesterday after the sim simply quit working. (I could launch MSFS; I could go to the World Map to set up a flight, but when I tried to load it, MSFS crashed.) Yesterday evening, when I went to add/remove programs and clicked to "uninstall" MSFS, a Steam uninstaller came up. I'd never seen that previously. Anyway, I clicked on it and thought it finished too soon. So I went to the file path--with which I am now overly familiar (c:\users\my name\appdata\roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator) and found that the MSFS folder was still there. So I deleted that folder and everything in it, which I thought had taken care of the problem of leftover bits and pieces, and then reinstalled MSFS. After that, I was able to launch MSFS, get into the cockpit, and take off (and land). So I thought I'd solved my problem, whatever it was. Well I hadn't. I can't get past the World Map again this afternoon. When I try to load any kind of flight, even just a simple takeoff with no destination, MSFS crashes. So either I'm missing something, or the damn sim is kaput. Is this our problem or Asobo's? HP Omen 25L Desktop, Intel i7-1070 CPU, 32 GB DDR RAM, Nvidia 3070 GPU, 1 TB SSD, Logitech flight yoke, throttle quadrant, rudder pedals, multi-panel, radio panel, TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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