Checking for updates? No, we're way past that

[NixonRedgrave]

@Albatross75160

I have been seeing this problem for a few days now, in fact in my mind I associated it withSU15

It came up during the SU15 Beta:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/stuck-at-checking-for-updates/642458?u=nixonredgrave

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/1-37-18-0-problem-checking-for-updates/642259?u=nixonredgrave

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/getting-stuck-on-checking-for-updates-again/641851?u=nixonredgrave

I wrote this 7 days ago, so it’s been doing this for awhile now:

Checking for Updates Screen - Stuck

I’ve been regularly seeing this when launching the sim lately. When I do a manual sync of the time, I see that is always off by a fair amount. This sitting on the Checking for Updates wasn’t an issue in the past, so what I don’t understand is why this is suddenly a thing. I’m not understanding why my PC has recently developed an inability to maintain/sync time correctly and/or the sim has become significantly more fussy about the time being in sync. I did not used to have to manually sync the…

However, I’m wrong about what I wrote then, what I was seeing was the time change in Settings for when I last synced it not the actual time changing in the Taskbar. I know I was wrong, because when I click to sync the time, I’m now looking right at the Taskbar and I see no change. What I do see change is the time next to the sync button that states when I last synced it. I had been misreading what that represented.

I’ve also gone through the various checks to ensure that the Windows Time service is working as intended, which it is.

The issue hasn’t been consistent since I wrote that 7 days ago. The Checking for Updates issue seems to come and go sporadically.

EDIT:

I’m also seeing this on two different PCs and syncing the time is not solving the issue for me 100% of the time. Yesterday evening’s (14JUN2024) Checking for Updates issues simply would not go away no matter what I tried except if I launched the sim with the network turned off. Turning the network back on and launching the sim would cause the issue to immediately return. Multiple tries of quitting and launching the sim elicited the same Checking for Updates behavior.