Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting. No Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it? No Brief description of the issue: When I start the steam version of FS2020 the game always crashes on the loading screen before the main men…

[image] MrTreeHugger269: I tried logging out of my Microsoft Account on my whole system you tried that with the xbox app ?

Yes I logged out of the store Xbox app etc. but it did not work, the login screen in the sim is still blacked out and the account shows up as logged in while the sim checks for updates…

you have two different MSFS installations at one PC ? :thinking:

Yes but just because I wanted to try if something’s wrong with my system or not and obviously it runs great on the store version. It does not make any difference if the second one is installed or not.

hmmmm.. may be there are other users with experiance of these situation. These black-window is the login and who knows, may be there is an issue if the game is installed in two different “ways” ( may be these windows permission storage contains some entries which the app now not ‘like’ ).

It has nothing to do with the second installation, that was just to test if something on my system is wrong or if it’s something with the steam version maybe a corrupt file or something like that. And to be able to fly again finally…

Same behaviour before installing the store version as well it’s obviously some problem with the steam version not letting me log out and login again to my account.

I remember a user “moved” the steam app ( the 1.09 gig ) to another drive ( I guess its similar to a verfiy or re-install ). But in these case backup your “packages” folder, otherwise you must redownload all the content again. But so far I understood you tried this already. Beside of an application…

Yes I tried that already, also did a full reinstall of the sim, and even formatted all my disks and installed windows again… I get the ucrtbase.dll error in the event log which leads to missing US language pack or C++ runtime libraries but I tried all of these things also reinstalled windows directl…

[image] MrTreeHugger269: I get the ucrtbase.dll error in the event log which leads to missing US language pack or C++ runtime libraries and also issues with sound driver :slight_smile: Have you installed such tools like Asus Sonic Radar / Suite ?.. or can you find a windows service called N…