Black screen when launching the game

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No

Brief description of the issue:

When launching the game, I have only a black screen and nothing seems to happen. I tried once to wait for more than one hour, hoping it would launch, but nothing seems to happen and when watching in the task manager, I see it’s not downloading anything. The processor seems to keep around 10% usage, so it’s doing something, but what exactly…
To be honest I haven’t been playing Flight Sim for a few months, so I’m not sure with wich version the problem appeared exactly. I’m currently using 1.26.5.0.

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Launch the game

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Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

1.26.5.0


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a lot of users which made a break had former the google-map-replacement add-on installed.
If so, please remove that mod and clean up your windows hosts file ( go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc, remove hosts file, and restart pc )

Otherwise you can first check the FAQs

https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406047066770-All-versions-Stuck-on-a-black-loading-screen
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406039624338-All-versions-Loading-issues-Checklist

so.. remove mods, relogin in xbox, -FastLaunch some time helps, disconnect devices for a test, etc..

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-does-not-launch-goes-to-black-screen/524097/22[https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-does-not-launch-goes-to-black-screen/524097/22](https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-does-not-launch-goes-to-black-screen/524097/22?u=tenpatrol)

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Thank you for your answers, I will try that and come back to give an update.

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Hi, sorry for not replying quickly.
I tried this and it worked !

Thank you for your help

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This worked for me just now. MSFS2024 was doing the same thing and that’s what started my investigation. Rebooted, checked out MSFS2020 and got the blank black screen. I find your post and boom, now MSFS2020 is working perfectly. I’m gonna take this as a win and try MSFS2024 tomorrow lol, thanks!

Edit: Got a CTD in 2020 during load, but its ok, I kinda anticipated it. 2024 is working now too.