Hi there. I’ve been having an issue with FS2020 after purchasing it 1 month ago. The flight Sim will not boot when my ethernet cable is plugged in. Literally, the second I unplug the ethernet cable, it boots. I’m new to MSFS 2020 but I’ve been flight simming since 2009. I’ve tried booting with e…

Yes. That was one of the first things I did.

If this board also has WiFi you may need to disable this in control panel or the bios. It could be possible that both the WiFi and Ethernet are connected to the same network you have an issue where the traffic doesn’t know which connection to use or possibly asymmetrical routing.

Network settings ethernet adapter setting disconnect and directly reconnect game should boot now Without unplug the cable. I had this for a while some 3 weeks ago, after i did a complete reinstall and this [image] Unresponsive/Freezing After World Update X General Discussion …

Does the internet even work on that connection? Reddit has a lot of posts with ethernet issues on z690 if you have a z690 board? might be worth looking over there too.

Thanks everyone for he help. This is bizarre. So everything works fine via ethernet connection except FS 2020. I ended up disabling the ethernet adapter then re-enabling it. This temporarily solved the problem.

I too started having this issue in mid-August. I did a complete reinstall and it did not fix the issue. I then upgraded my NVMe from 500gb to 1tb, fresh install of Windows 10, updated it and all drivers and then installed MSFS. Stil would not load. After completing all steps for this issue on the mi…

Did you make sure your ethernet drivers are up to date?

Yes as stated above. Fresh install of windows with all updates and drivers installed. I didnt mention that i had also disabled windows defender.

Having the exact same issue. I see your post is two months old. Were you ever able to resolve it and if so, how?

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fribnibble May 5, 2023, 2:06am 20

Problem solved - at least for my setup. Hope works for others. Turned off ipv6 in my Verizon g3100 router.