[SOLVED] Microsoft Flight Simulator stuck at the blue bar...

[geckovic02]

Hey!

I'm asking here for my friend (as he isn't that experienced with pc's):

He recently bought the new Microsoft Flight Simulator on Steam.
While installing the launcher onto his HDD on Steam, a disk write error occurred. After continueing the download until it installed, the next problem was in the application itself:
After passing the "Checking for Updates" screen, a blue loading bar appears and always gets stuck at the exact same place. (See screenshot)

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/xh9U774

View: https://imgur.com/a/xh9U774


What I have tried so far over Teamviewer:

-Restart PC
-Update drivers
-Reinstall the game
-Clear Steam download cache
-Install it on another drive (SSD)

After following action the disk write error seems solved:
-Reinstall entire Steam library aswell as Steam itself

Taskmanager shows that the Flight sim is "Not responding".
Also, ALT + F4 doesn't do anything.


At this point, my PC knowledge is used up and I'm open to anyones help.

Thanks in advance

 

[geckovic02]

UPDATE:

He returned the game and got his money back. He'll buy it on the Microsoft store and and try to install it from there...

UPDATE 2#:

Still gets stuck at the same place as in the screenshot..

UPDATE 3#:

Worked after an update...