Description of the issue:
Load time recently is extremely long. I am not “stuck” on checking for updates completely but I am stuck on that for 3-4 minutes every time. Is there anything to do to shorten or disable that? Any loading parameter maybe that will disable that? I tried to search for that but most posts discuss cases where people got completely stuck there.
[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time on load
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Load msfs 2020
Wait for “checking for updates” screen to disappear
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No
[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? 12
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 4060
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB, RTX 3060
It’s been happening since '24 was released. If I believed in conspiracy theories, I’d swear that MS is doing it on purpose to “encourage” the purchase of the newer sim…
Same for me since 3 Jan 2024. It take like 2 min. I also had one case in which MSFS2020 got stuck at the end of the loading progress bar (just before reaching the main interface)
I`m playing on PC as Xbox X and observe that it takes quite some good time to load the game and to get over the “checking for updates” screen. Roughly the same on both platforms.
Personally consider this as: there must be somethings wrong…
Last night, I was a bit curious about how long it takes the update screen on MSFS2020.
So I restartet the game late at night and measured, for my surprise it was a bit quicker the second start of the game(without restarting PC): ~1:32min.
On Xbox X, I turned later on came an Update in right after the Asobo screen: it took the “update screen” ~1:12min.
Same here… for me it sits on the checking for updates loader for a little over a minute but every other 2 or 3 launches I have to force close MSFS because the loading bar reaches the end and the sim never loads to the main menu.
It seems that by clearing the cache files in the LocalState\DCE folder MSFS then loads into the main menu. Have also noticed that I haven’t seen any new .pso cache files being created anymore in the LocalState\cache folder. Not the normal behavior I’ve been used to with MSFS.
Today I seem to be stuck indefinitely on the checking for updates screen… About two hours ago I loaded MSFS to the main menu just fine. Decided to take a walk, came back to load MSFS and now I cannot get past the checking for updates screen. First time I have ever seen it get stuck like this on this screen. As of now it’s been 30 minutes on this screen…
I don’t understand why the initial launcher checks for updates then passes with no updates and says then launching game. Then the game launches and there is then a second check for updates via this installation manager…
Another day, same old same old. Cant get past the checking for updates again. weekly occurrence now regular as clockwork. I’d be embarrassed if I released something this bad.
Same here, it’s my only day off this week and i’m stuck in this screen for 40 minutes, shame on you Asobo… it is really getting old… I thought only FS2024 was bad…
Before 2024 released i sat in “checking for updates” for 5 seconds MAX. Now ever since 2024 released im sitting in “checking for updates” between 2-5minutes. As im writing this i’ve been sitting here waiting for 7 minutes actually.
Just as I typed the above it eventually went past the checking for updates screen after 15 mins or so, then sat for equally as long loading the actual game. When the main menu eventually appeared the first thing I noticed was the market place was unavailable (not that I’d ever gice them any more money) and greyed out, then the game CTD. Joke.
Microsoft obviously think that if they intentionally make a bad game even worse then we will all immediately buy another game off them that is equally as bad if not worse, dream on.
I was stuck for about 10 minutes before I finally disabled my network, which has the effect of force-skipping this step. I’ve since reenabled my network and now slowly … very, very slowly … loading the sim.
NVM … scratch that. Just had my first FS2020 CTD in a good long while. Come on, MS. Saturdays are the only times some of us can get in a good day of flying.
