Hi all, I know that this is a race forum, but I want to ask about a worrying experience I just had
I'm a flight simmer as much as I am race sim, but generally was on the military side, predominantly DCS. However I had been seeing some very nice graphics where people where playing MS FS2020, and flying into really interesting places around the world. I decided to give it a go and bought the Premium deluxe 40 year anniversary edition
Less than 7 minutes later I was getting rid of it. Why? Firstly, I was not expecting to have to sign up for an XBox account, and to have to pay $10 a month for the subscription; that was not clear, and while it might be in the fine print it does seem that a lot of people have been caught out by it.
However the really worrying part was that when the splash scree came up, I was hearing that really irritating music that accompanies a lot of game intros and landing screens. Ok, no problem, go to the volume icon in the corner and mute..... except the music continued at the same volume. I changed the volume, when to sound mixer, went through every sound setting I could but could not alter it. It has obviously complete override control of my PC settings, which means I no longer trust it - what else has it got control over?
I have shut down the PC and asked for a refund from Stem using a different PC without installing it, so am waiting for the refund.
My question now is how to I proceed with getting it off my Gaming PC and ensuring it has not left any legacy stuff on there? I am worried that it has installed something unwanted that could compromise my PC or give my data to someone without my knowledge
Les
I'm a flight simmer as much as I am race sim, but generally was on the military side, predominantly DCS. However I had been seeing some very nice graphics where people where playing MS FS2020, and flying into really interesting places around the world. I decided to give it a go and bought the Premium deluxe 40 year anniversary edition
Less than 7 minutes later I was getting rid of it. Why? Firstly, I was not expecting to have to sign up for an XBox account, and to have to pay $10 a month for the subscription; that was not clear, and while it might be in the fine print it does seem that a lot of people have been caught out by it.
However the really worrying part was that when the splash scree came up, I was hearing that really irritating music that accompanies a lot of game intros and landing screens. Ok, no problem, go to the volume icon in the corner and mute..... except the music continued at the same volume. I changed the volume, when to sound mixer, went through every sound setting I could but could not alter it. It has obviously complete override control of my PC settings, which means I no longer trust it - what else has it got control over?
I have shut down the PC and asked for a refund from Stem using a different PC without installing it, so am waiting for the refund.
My question now is how to I proceed with getting it off my Gaming PC and ensuring it has not left any legacy stuff on there? I am worried that it has installed something unwanted that could compromise my PC or give my data to someone without my knowledge
Les