Just disable your adapter.
Edit: or disconnect from the taskbar. Occam’s razor and all that.
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This morning, Europe location and time, Microsoft Store update Microsoft Store and Xbox apps…
Now , my start with MSFS dont stuck in “checking for uodates”.
Can you try it?..
Thaks a lot.
And dont ask for Disk insert too.
POST 10 minutes later test:
Again stuck.
Placebo efect, no solution in our hands.
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it’s a server issue or internet connection issue…
if it is stuck on checking updates and i activate the vpn…after few seconds the splash screen appears and it continues to load
fix the servers Asobo, or the code for he initial connection
but definitely is totally random
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Disconnect/ reconnect… The results are the same CTD’s
The last update broke the game
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Interesting, what country do you set the VPN to?
Maybe the root cause is that MSFS suddenly became sentient (some scraps of AI code is there for all those cars driving around) and is kinda mad that 2024 has been announced to ‘replace’ it…
BTW, the topic isn’t solved so why this ?
Only serves to make the situation more annoying, really.
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When I get tired of restarting the sim I just launch MSFS (Steam) and when the game launchs dissable internet. Then I let it load to the main menu and re-connect.
It’s a walkaround but it’s annoying because it does the loop most of the times, but not always, and I don’t want to dissable my internet connection just because it’s unable to pass the “checking for updates screen”
I think they mark that post as the solution so people can find it easily and provide more information to debug the problem and THEN find what is wrong and apply a propper solution.
Working perfectly and fast this morning!
No hangups at any point, marketplace and content manager restored.
My bandwidth is only 30Mb, but running smoothly.
Xbox X, with the disc in
Just flew around Barcelona for a stress test, all working perfect, not getting the ‘bandwidth too low, offline mode’, etc. messages I would usually get by now after flying for a while.
Superb
I’m getting it around 50% of the times I start the sim
Hello, I don’t know if anyone has already written a similar message, but personally this problem appeared as soon as I activated DirectX12 with Frame Generation. I have reinstalled MSFS 4 times in the past week, and every time I activated Dx12 + Frame Generation, the problem appeared without any way to remove it. The only solution I found was to take a backup of FlightSimulator.cfg + UserCfg.opt and replace it with what we currently had (a backup containing Dx11), and then not to activate Dx12 + FG anymore.
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Checking for updates, almost everytime I start FS.
It happens since Bing outage.
Right now almost 30 minutes waiting for updates check.
Wonder, will we see a day when developers will fix one thing and do not wreck another.
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I have DX11 and obviously no FG but same problems as every one else here.
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This sim looks so good I think you should just perfect this one and rename it 2024.
And please don’t change anything, it’s working!
I was bitten by this last night for the first time ever. Unlike some of the earlier reports however, my sim wasn’t actually downloading anything - e.g.,total network usage on my PC was nil and the flight sim executable only periodically pinging a few dozen or a few hundred kilobits per second every few seconds. The sim very much seemed to be waiting for some kind of reply or connection that wasn’t being made successfully. After about 5 minutes, I force-quit the sim, waited a moment and then restarted. This time, the sim made it past the “Checking for updates” screen but upon reaching the sim main screen, I got a dialog box that said there were updates available and asking to relaunch the sim to download them. I agreed, got a 600+ mb update (the recent AIRAC and World Hub airport fixes no doubt) and then back to the sim’s main menu.
However, when I tried to start a fligth in the PMDG 737-800, I got a “yoke hard-over left” situation (a failure of the aircraft to authenticate properly). Errors like this have been multiplying among PMDG owners since SU15 was released. There are numerous threads about it in the PMDG forums including a pinned post by Mathijs collecting more info to try to resolve the issue. Normally hitting ESC, then restarting the flight corrects this issue but in my case it did not, nor did quitting to the sim menu and starting another new flight. I quit the sim entirely, relaunched it again, and tried to start a fligth and got the same error. This time, however, hitting ESC and then restarting finally corrected the problem.
I know these appear to be independent issues but, since both involve some kind of connection to MS/XBox servers to check for updates and verify/authenticate product ownership, I have to believe there could be a connection between two issues I’ve never experienced before occurring on the same evening with the current version of the sim.
can anyone report if the problem is better or worse right now?
office hours in the time zone that last night was in sim time hours
how tell?
it go it go not,
so you can only try yorself 
oh,last try work 
but…
Exactly, and when you disconnect the Internet, another "HANDLED ERROR " error occurs, and it forgets the previous “NOT ERROR HANDLED” error.
Should be an easy fix, to add error handing, but really, the error should not be occurring in the 1st place, which is what needs to be investigated & fixed.
ANALOGY:
Its like you are calling someone on the phone, and it rings, and rings, and rings, but they do not answer, and you do not know that you should hang up, so you can speak to others on the phone.
What is missing in the message that the person you are calling is not available, and that you should hang up and try again later.
Then the question is, WHY that person has recently decided to seldomly answers the phone …
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Sound so easy fix that. Simply do not let the sim search for updates when starting! Do that through the MS Store or Xbox app or even a option through extern app maybe.
Like so many other software update system which you check for updates when you choose for or even a option to do not check for updates automatically. But all these ideas it is a “dream” because the Asobo team could be created that options since begin…and I’m not expert about it, just a idea! See ya.
Any post that starts off with “It’s an easy fix”, probably is NOT written by a professional software developer 
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