I’m going to “live dangerously”…shut down the sim to see if it will restart successfully.
Ok, somehow I just got in.
I hope it works for you. Please let us know!
Success! Normal restart!
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downloading at 1.2 Mb/s…I have just about had enough. My flight time was wasted yet again.
This has been my method, including just now.
Whenever I have a glitch with MSFS, and I haven’t changed anything on my end, my tactic is to wait and see what develops. Almost always, the issue resolves itself or on rare occasions requires some sort of sim update. Most often the issues seem to be network related and go away over time. My opinion is if the sim starts acting up when it was working fine yesterday…take a deep breath before you start re-downloading stuff etc. FWIW.
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While waiting I just disconnected from the internet.
The sim went straight to the loading screen but stated that I was off line. Once here I reconnected back to the internet. I then got a message saying that I was reconnected, and it continued to load successfully to the main menu.
I still had Online Services which is not usual whenever I do this method.
I am able to get into the game now, but aircraft I’ve purchased from the store are missing. Even after deleting and re-downloading, aircraft are missing (CJ Typhoon, R-FAL, A320 V2, etc.)
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Whatever the update did, it has everything working beautifully again. Buttery smooth. Thank you!
Just left it running for 20 mins or so.
Now I think the sim is completely broken…even in safe mode it won’t start, even the community folder is empty, even clearing the cache, even restarting the PC…CTD!!! This morning was good…disappointed…I give up for now!
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For an experiment, Shutdown your sim, and release and renew your IP address from the command prompt. And then try again.
I managed to get past this by disabling my network adapter while on the update check screen, waiting for it to tell me there is no network connection, clicking to continue, and then once it was on the regular loading screen I reenabled my network adapter. The load took way longer than normal, but I was able to get in and fly around for a bit. Then I exited the simulator, waited a moment, opened it back up, and it moved normally past the update screen and into the menu.
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That’s exactly how it worked for me also.
Will MS reimburse me for the sim services I am paying for and can’t use because they released an update that botched my sim today? How long will it take now to reverse this last update or issue a fix? I am now unable to start the sim on my PC and get CTD on start (empty community folder). For context, before today, I did 1 or 2 flights a day, every day, and didn’t have this issue.
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On the two occasions over the last couple of weeks where the sim got stuck (i.e. more than 30 seconds) on “Checking for Updates”, I just pressed Alt-Enter to get to windowed-mode, clicked the exit button (“X” on the right-hand-side of the menu bar at the top), then restarted the sim. Worked both times.
Well ive tried deleting cache, restarting computer, using the repair function, deleting/reinstalling aircraft from the store and still missing aircraft from the store front after this checking for update fiasco.
syncing the time seemed to help but the issue remains
killing with alt-f4 and launching again seemed to help but the issue remains
waiting it out for however long it takes seems to be the most consistent rate of success, the waiting times for me have been anywhere between 5 and 60 minutes
after waiting an additional 10 min with the screen/loading stuck as pictured above ( my previous post) I disconnected from internet. The sim then took me to the main home page where i was then able to select a flight. I then reconnected to the internet and received numerous warnings about not being connected/offline but was able to continue to load and fly successfully.