Can't get past "checking for updates" screen during launch

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Just had another user say he hit the same thing but with the Italy update. Best of luck with your troubleshooting.

CTD for 40th anniversary caused at load by Nordic Update (SU5)

I fought the same issue for several days and finally traced it to a single bush trip in the Italy world update. When this bush trip was installed using Content Manager, the sim would CTD and then crash again during the load screens when restarting (unless in safe mode). After figuring this out I was able to install the full Italy update with the exception of the one bush trip and now everything is working. Hopefully you can do something similar with the Nordic update. The bush trip in questi…