Since todays update I can’t load MSFS. I get the screen with the plane flying, then the black screen and the CTD. Tried multiple times with same result. Finally uninstalled and reinstalled but the same issue. Running as admin doesn’t do anything.
Worked fine before the 40th update.
I am experiencing the same issue. I was able to play it yesterday after installing the update, but today it CTD every time during the loading of the game itself. I even removed all of the files out of the community folder. Same result.
same issue for me
Same here. First took 2 days to download and now i get CTD after flying 15-20 min. Not to mention the long boot up time. Been with FS2020 from the beginning and this is the worst update I have ever experienced. Sim UD10 was a dream come true, 11 is a frustrating CTD fest! This is getting old real quick.
Please upvote this report so the devs will be aware of it. Sim wont start after 40th anniversary update
Update: Knowledge of how to troubleshoot and solve past updates has paid off. No more CTD, it still takes awhile to load but to be honest this sim is gorgeous!! Nice 40th!
Are you not going to give some insight into what knowledge from the past you applied?
I have had the same issue for 3 days with two occasions re-installing the game. I had no issue with the SU11 Beta nor prior updates. Since Friday, once I have all of the updates downloaded and installed, I get the following crash seconds into loading. I am assuming it is server-related but I’m happy to troubleshoot if not. As a side note, prior to downloading the updates, when the plain-vanilla sim is downloaded with no SU/WU packages and online functionality is disabled, it will load albeit with the marketplace greyed out. As soon as I download the rest of my packages and enable online play, I get this behavior. Not sure whether I should take another day off or begin troubleshooting. Some information from the devs about the state of things would help.
I have never had to re-install the sim. I empty my community folder before update, make sure everything is current and updated on my pc, windows, ms store and nvidia drivers (drivers only) without Geforce Experience. After taking literally 2 days to download I had ctd,s every 15-20 min into flight. Reinstalled the previous nvidia driver 522.25 and the ctd,s stopped. Now here’s the part I don’t understand but it works for me. I put back my community folder, reinstalled the latest nvidia driver 526.86 again without Geforce Experience and although the sim takes awhile to load it runs beautifully, no ctd,s. I sincerely hope this helps, this sim is a love/hate relationship. Best to you.
Go through each of the following steps one at a time. Copy each line, one at a time , paste it into Power shell (Admin rights)…
and it will then run. Wait until each runs and finishes before you move on to the next one.
When you are completely finished, Restart your computer and then try to see in MS2020 will start and run properly
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /checkhealth
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /scanhealth
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
sfc /scannow
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
RESTART your computer as the last step. Then go for a test flight.
Thanks. I got it working.
I’ve reinstalled for the last time. Over the few day I reinstalled several times I used most of my internet time with Comcast.
Finally got it working. Blue smoke and mirrors.
Always avoid reinstalling because it often does not resolve the issue. You can be assured that running the commands above ensure your OS is clean and corrupt free. Saves a lot of time.
Same thing here. Was working pretty well until the 40th Anniversary update. Now I’m getting CTD’s at the very first loader splash screen (before checking for updates). Odd thing is that one in every ten attempts it will load perfectly fine and then i can fly for hours without a problem. Very odd and annoying as hell.
Tried all the usual stuff like making sure everything’s up to date, SFC, DISM cleanup, cache clearing, complete reinstall etc. Nothing make as a difference.
opt into the SU11 beta, that fixed it for me
I’ve also got this issue after the avionics update, just black screen and CTD everytime, tried uninstalling, reinstalling and that doesn’t work either, pretty much done everything bar reinstalling windows and it won’t work.
What exactly did you do to get it working?
I’ve tried everything in this forum. I even went through a 6000+ post topic about it. NOTHING is working.
Resetting game
Resetting store
Deleting game and all components/evidence of game
Re-installing
Reg-edit, to fully get rid of previous instance of game
I’ve got every single peripheral I have unplugged and uninstalled. Only a mouse, keyboard and headphones
uninstalling Nvidia drivers/reinstalling
Updated all drivers/windows.
Installed windows 11 (used to have 10)
I just tried the above admin/powershell commands as well, with no luck.
Gigabyte Z690 aorus pro
32gigs ram
i9 12900k
RTX 4090 founders edition
PLENTY of hard drive space (All M2’s)
I used to work just fine. I never had any kind of crash to desktop. However, I didn’t play it for several months, as I was mostly playing my racing sims and VR, (Meta quest 2). A friend came to visit and I wanted to show him how cool the graphics were on the flight sim. Then this kept happening:
I get the smaller window (I’m on a 55", 4k LG OLED) with the plane, signing in, syncing, launching, black screen w/little with circle in lower right, then POOF back to desktop. I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled just fine. I have many other games that work fine through the microsoft store. I even have MSFS on my xbox series X, where it works fine so I know it’s not an ‘account’ issue. All other games that I play also work with no issues. . This is pretty frustrating.
Fault Bucket:
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.30.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: MoAppCrash
Package Full Name: Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.30.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Application Name: praid:App
Application Version: 1.30.12.0
Application Timestamp: 63c56d8f
Fault Module Name: ucrtbase.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.22621.608
Fault Module Timestamp: f5fc15a3
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000002f975
OS Version: 10.0.22621.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 237e
Additional Information 2: 237e5397242318a3032c52c76b53ffad
Additional Information 3: 5e7e
Additional Information 4: 5e7e20f9ebc91e5f7478d72e0154c309
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 1ef38688bdfe98c86cff9942ceb551dd (2089557264338080221)