I changed from a french keyboard to a german keyboard, and changed the default keyboard language. When I changed that back, the MSFS was starting up.
Thanks for your tips which started me thinking what I really changed lately
Henning
PS: the Logitech G Hub mentioned in the support document is no more a problem (the document is from august 2020), but that gave me the right idea. Now I have to find a way to use the german keyboard and the MSFS installed with a french one…
I had the issue where I was getting the spinning wheel on the monument valley screen yesterday/today. After much hunting around I found some windows security updates that hadn’t been applied.
I downloaded and installed them then restarted my machine and FS started up and loaded first time.
So it might be worth checking if you have any updates pending via Windows > Settings > Update and Security
This game has a long start up process, I cross my fingers everytime I click the Icon. It has stalled again, this time before the update screen. I really dont want to reinstall it again. It takes over 5 hrs! It did run after the 3rd reinstall , I had to reinstall the planes again. I dont what to do, this sim will sit ideal for awhile because I have combat sims to play.
I have a big problem and I hope someone can help me with it. If I insert Sceneries, landmarks and cities from flightsim.to (about 30 sceneries, one country) into my community folder for installing them and start MSFS2020 it takes long time (30 minutes or so) till the simulator is loaded! My simulator is running on an SSD, the sceneries are located on a SSD. Is this normal behavior and do I need to start the simulator one day before I want to fly, if I will add a second or third country ?
Yes that is a “restriction” with MSFS.
The more data in your communtiy folder, the longer it takes to load.
MSFS scans that data and uses it in place of the default.
So if there is a lot there. then it does indeed take a while.
I use symbolic links and keep most of my addons in another location.
The addons in my community folder are things I use every flight, like tree mods, the icon remover, etc.
I place a link for the aircraft livery I want to use as well as a symbolic link for each scenery I want to use in that session, in the communtiy folder.
There are content managers available that will do likewise.
I do not copy the scenery files directly into the community folder I am using “junctions”, but it take very much time to get it loaded ? do you think if I do a symbolic link it will run faster? I did the same in XP11 and it has been take longer time at the first load, but after this the startup has been much faster
Only put into your Community Folder the juctions that you need to use for each session.
Do not put juctions for all your addons in there.
I theory, I believe a junction should be a bit faster then a symbolic link, but the link is a bit more flexible as to what you can do with it.
For sure, I have a lot as well!!!
If you are flying from A to B, just add anything you may want for that particular flight.
So, for example, if you have Japan addons, don’t have a junction in the Community folder for them if you are doing a flight in Europe.
sure but as I did write if I add junction for whole germany for instance it take me 30-45 minutes to load the program till I am able to choose the plane. sometimes I like to do VFR trips. and how do you handle bought sims, they get encrypted so it is hard to move them
How big is that German scenery?
It would have to be extremely big to cause that kind of delay.
Do you have any Data Limits on?
I can get on in about 5-10 minutes or so.