Was able to start the game again this morning.
The checking for updates really did take longer than before but not excessively long.
FYI, I am currently working on creating a profile for the 737 MAX in MSFS 2024, but I decided to test how MSFS 2020 works. I was able to log into the game without any issues.
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The last 12 hours have been very rough for me with the sim. Up till yesterday afternoon I’d had a few CTD’s, now it’s every flight, even trying to load the sim CTD.
Nothing has changed my end software wise but now the sim is not stable at all which is incredibly frustrating
Spent the last 30 minutes just trying to get into the sim but it’s not playing ball. Can’t get it working in either Windows 10 or 11
I’m in South Dakota, trying to install 2020 again after uninstall, no luck, does nothing
At he moment, Europe (Croatia) 1Gbps speed test, and sim (2024) is not loading world map in free flight with messages about low bandwith. Tried 3 times and it just CTD-s after som time trying.
Second weekend gone with unusable product…
It’s working again but since the 2024 release it’s taking longer than it used to at the “Checking for updates” screen - is the team aware of this?
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At first MS brings us a terrible Beta release of there new sim and now they sabotage our old sim. Please let us play with the sim that was working. 
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I tried MSFS 2020 last night when I saw that there was an apparent problem. I was able to load the sim normally and was able to fly with no problems. I have just loaded the sim this morning and once again it loaded normally and did a flight with no issues. Not sure what the problem could be but I would try to start with an empty community folder and see if maybe an add on was causing any problems with loading.
Same here unistalled, reboot and installed iit again 150 GB no files in community folder.
Now it starts but crash randomely.
Faulting application name: FlightSimulator.exe, version: 1.38.2.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: nvwgf2umx.dll, version: 32.0.15.6614, time stamp: 0x672bc78e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000467221
Faulting process id: 0x0x6D94
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB43DDA0CFDB19
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.38.2.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmdi.inf_amd64_af39e9e3e46451d8\nvwgf2umx.dll
Report Id: b4e5e624-c9b6-4bd8-b5bc-82dd5102a522
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.38.2.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: App
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Stimmt leider….habe 2024 wieder gelöscht (schade um das Geld) und spiele wieder 2020…. Grüße aus Belgien/ Deutschland
FS2020 or its servers seem to be broken.
First the synchronization with the cloud fails. Consequently, I try the offline mode.
Long startup, and just before the blue bar reaches the end, a few seconds of startup music pop up (I had deactivated music), and then CTD.
Tried three times, always with exactly the same result.
Posting from Germany.
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I agree with you on this but want to add that in my experience this longer delay at “checking for updates” has been the case for the past week or so (definitely post MSFS2024 release but that may be a coincidence of course). The server issue last night (UK time) is solved but the delay is still longer than was normal. This could be indicative that the underlying server problem remains?
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Did a full flight late last night here in eastern Canada so seems like it hopefully may be resolved in this neck of the woods anyway.
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Why are we being asked (By MS) to post issues with getting to the menu in 2024 into a thread that is specifically about 2020?
It would also perhaps be helpful if they clarified what they mean by “fully restarting your sim”. Is that an app-reboot, a PC reboot or a reinstall?
Given that it still hard-crashes my machine (power-off), every time I try to run it is both 1 and 2, I already tried 3 and am now stuck at 0% in the initial load, where it still hard-crashes.
And all that with “ideal” hardware… This is going from sublime to ridiculous!
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I had the same problem yesterday morning and afternoon, by early night it seemed to be solved, however when I tried to use it I wasn´t able, because the FPS had dropped, In my case MSFS 2020 runs at 35, 40 FPS even 50, the least I´ve played with is 19 or 20, yesterday night the performance had completely dropped to 3.5, 5, or even 10, no more. I´m gonna try now ans check if it improved.
me in France MFS 2020 still don t want start … boring very boring … 
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I have been trying to use MSFS 2020 for a couple of days now, and i have also had to do this in the past when i have had to do a complete re-install. I keep getting this error message after also having the “Internet Connection” lost error yesterday…Please advise what i am suppose to do?
Even worse. To make room for 2024 I had to delete 2020 (Impossible to move) with the idea of reinstalling it on another fairly empty drive. I am now sitting looking at Xbox with the message “Queued 0%”. Been like that for an hour now
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Why, you can move de biggest part of MSFS2020 without any problem.
Today, a one and a half hour flight went alright.
Game startup was okay except for lengthy (~ 2 1/2 min.) check for updates.
A few stutters but no CTD.
~1300 - 1500 Z on the European server.