Am I the only one stuck at "Press any button to start" after downloading 1.19.8.0?

[cromsan]

I have the problem to enter MSFS via XBox.
When I press the first photo, I go to the second photo, but if I press any button, I return to the first photo; and so on. But I can not enter MSFS.

[cromsan]

I think the problem was I where not connected to internet.

[travelbug787]

“PLEASE HELP”

I am new to this site.

I’m stuck on this screen as well. I have the steam addition. I tride resetting xbox game bar, turning off windows firewall, reinstalling the game twice. The second time I deleted the x86 folder that contains the actual game data. the only thing I did before all this happened a few days ago is I noticed my windows clock was out by 10 minutes so therefore I went into the settings for time and date and turned on automatic location , Automatic time was already set and clicked on sync. Went to load MSFS 2020 and have been stuck with this ever since. I even tried to turn the clock back manually and all sorts. Have googled & YouTubed and now have no idea.

[JuanF588545794]

Hi, close session in marketplace and xbox app and restart system

[OnkelJu]

I have the same issue.

Black screen loading freeze

@Willfre4494 - good point with the Sysinternals Process Monitor. I tired it, and with me it was similar: durching the BlackScreen MSFS was accessing the RollingCache and some kind of Sound.Init (?) space or routine. For me the problem seem to be solved by applying the latest Windows 10 update (in this case ‘2021-08 update for Windows 10 vers. 21H1 : KB4023057’) Update: This was only a temporary success: after the Windows update I was able to start the MSFS and install the WU6 Update including…

The only way for me to avoid it, is to disable ‘Autostart’ of the GoogleDrive “GoogleDriveWS” process.
If it is not started, MSFS can start, if it is running, MSFS jumps to the “Press Any Key” Screen. I have to start GoogleDrive manually, when I want to use it. Afterwards, when I want to use MSFS, I have to reboot the system.

[EKSIMRacing]

The cause and the solution has been explained here:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/stuck-on-press-any-key-to-start-issue-cause-and-our-solution/495431

hope this helps

[PeterQuirk]

I had the problem on my Xbox X for the first time tonight. I tried rebooting, but that didn’t help. Then I tried to use MSFS 2020 through Cloud Gaming on my Surface Pro. As soon as I tried to play, a message appeared on both the PC and the Xbox saying that I could play in only one place at a time. On the Xbox there was a “Play here instead” button. I selected that, and I was off to the races.

As I have been using the Cloud gaming option in bed at night (with a spare Xbox wireless controller) I can only assume there is some lock that doesn’t get cleared properly.