Hi all
It was a bit of a pain to get to install. My install went like this:
1. Run first installer (installer installer - well, the download manager I guess)
2. That finishes, runs installer and asks for location to install packages to.
3. It gets to around 15% and then just sits there, for an hour
(I then repeated this 2 more times, uninstalling between each one, and each one getting to about 15% then just stopping)
3a Turns out they weren't packages, they were the game files
3b Swear a lot, then uninstall all of the MSFS 2020 installers completely.
4 Turn off xbox game pass
5. Uninstall Xbox game pass and any other Xbox apps
Then I was starting from the very begninning again ...
6. Login to the Microsoft Store
7. Run the installer installer (900MB)
7a. If it carries on, stop it, exit and quit back to desktop
8. Go to Start
9. Right click on MSFS 2020 and "run as administrator"
10. It took 6 hours to install everything, It all went on OK and runs fine.
It seems that the download app is not correctly initialised, and starts the installer without administrator priveleges, which seems to stop it from installing.
Once I ran it as an admin, it got to the 15% mark again (for the fourth time), and this time it sarted the install process with no issues.
Just beware, there are some strangenesses, quite often you return to the game from one of the menu items, and the mouse no longer controls looking around the cockpit, leaving you stuck where you were last looking.
Similarly, I had it fail so badly last night, that when i returned to the cockpit, even the joystick hat was not interacting with the game. I would suggest learning or writing down the basic view commands, as once that mouse stops, you can be looking at the floor for the whole flight !!
Apart that, it all seems pretty decent so far - once the thing finally starts installing!!!!