Sinkrate wrote:When you run the Sim, you are actually logged into the xbox account that you had to create during the installation process. When starting the Sim, you are automatically logged in as part of the start up sequence. Sometimes the Sim hangs some functions and the way to get around this is to log out of your xbox account and log back in again.
Thanks Matt. My screen is not like the one in your link, but I managed to shut up the annoying sound by using the xbox panel which I recently discovered in the “start” menu. I am still stuck with the downloading problem though; nothing seems to cure it and it appears form the internet that many other people are having the same problem with pc-fs-base-bigfiles-0.1.59.fspackage. Do you know how big the file is supposed to be? The download bar has got as far as 24% 2Gig but it doesn’t appear to occupy 24% of the download bar space???
That one is a known issue, many, many people are having this very problem. I did read that one person found a way around this, it involves download speeds. I have no idea how it functions, but for this package they limited thier download speed at their router to 2MB until this package had finished and then went back to normal. It cleared the problem for them.
Another fix is with Steam itself, try these:
Clear Download Cache
Clearing the Steam download cache will cause the Steam client to flush locally cached configuration data and acquire it from the Steam servers again.
Navigate to your Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> Clear Download Cache
Repair Library Folder
The Steam library folder contains all of your installed games on disk. These folders need to be writable by all users in order to update properly. Sometimes these user permissions break and need to be refreshed.
Navigate to your Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders -> Right click on folder -> Repair Folder
Change Download Region
The Steam content system is divided into geographical regions. The Steam client automatically detects its current region and uses content servers located in that region for best performance. Sometimes, servers in a specific region may be slow, overloaded or have a hardware failure causing download issues. It is advisable to temporarily switch to a different download region to use another set of content servers.
Steam -> Settings -> Downloads -> Download Region. You may need to test several regions other than your own.
I also frond this, it may help....:
58098: Looping download on “pc-fs-base-bigfiles-0.1.59.fspackage
The content manager is stuck in a downloading loop on the “pc-fs-base-bigfiles-0.1.59.fspackage” and not progressing (about 17 GB into installation).
A potential work that works for some is to go to close Microsoft Flight Simulator, find the last downloaded files on your specified drive :\MSFS\Official\OneStore and delete them. Relaunch title and it will attempt to download again.
Some have also downloaded the content from another machine and copying it locally. We are working on this issue and will keep you updated.
Good luck
Matt
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