Simulator won't start after loading

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Hi. I have a little problem with the sim:

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nothing happend ysterday or early this week, it just happend today.
Can someone help me?

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A lot of folks are having strange issues.
If you havenā€™t, sign out of x-box, sign out of microsoft store.
Sign back in to both, Retry.

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i have already do that and nothing change

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If you have anything in your community folder, empty it and try.
If you have a lot in it and donā€™t want to do that, rename the community folder and create a new file named Community in the same place.

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this also donā€™t work

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The following will walk you through getting this solved. It is not specific to CTD.

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ok and how can i do it if i canā€™t acces to the sim?

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Iā€™m presuming you didnā€™t understand some of the noteā€™s words, as none is in sim.

This is what some of it says (you need to see the orig to figure it out)

  • You have said you emptied the community folder, so thatā€™s done.
  • Do you have any external applications running, such as an external weather program or such?
  • If you are using any of the sim apps in this group, shut them all down.
  • Shut down your computer and do a cold ( not restart) boot up.
    The rest I suspect you got OK.

If you done all that, provide the rest of the info he asks:

  • CPU
  • GPU
  • PSU
  • MB
  • Memory (including configuration)
  • Sound (on board or stand alone)
  • Monitor(s)
  • Display resolution

and youā€™ve done what this post mentions.

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Just follow the steps that you can complete. There are no settings you access in the sim to empty the community folder or shut off outside programs.
You donā€™t need the sim running to search the forum for similar posts.

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Same here. Was fine on Sunday. Yesterday I only fired up the PC to play Cyberpunk, and today the sim wonā€™t start. I updated the NVIDIA drivers, de- and reinstalled the Xbox application, signed in and out of the app, ran windows update, updated dotNet and c++, updated all other drivers, checked the firewall, used an empty community folderā€¦ Nothing helped.
If I start the sim being logged out of the Xbox app, the music plays on the loading screen (US update screen in the background), and Iā€™m asked to log in. When I do, the music cracks and Iā€™m back on the desktop.
This Xbox ā– ā– ā– ā–  is seriously getting on my nerves. I did not change anything and Iā€™m just locked out without any error message.

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Hello, how are you, I also close the simulator and it is every time I have a USB connected to the PC. The only way to enter the simulator is to disconnect all the controls from the USB. But that is not the solution since I want to use my saitek controllers. It gives me the impression that something in Windows version 20H2 is preventing USB communication.

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Before yā€™all have this poor soul tearing his computer apart looking for a problem, the error message says MSFS canā€™t find a file itā€™s looking for. Unfortunately, itā€™s anyoneā€™s guess what file that is.

Sounds more like a corruption of some sort or a deleted file / folder issue.

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i also do that it still donā€™t work

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@Orlysud
Please translate. What exactly does the box say? In Englishā€¦

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it say that a folder hasnā€™t be loaded

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I donā€™t get this box, it just crashes. And Iā€™m still on 2004, chose not to install 20H2 yet.

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ā€œLe fichier nā€™a pas pu ĆŖtre luā€ = ā€œThe file could not be readā€. Literal translation. I speak French and itā€™s part of my work environment every day.

Folder = dossier. File = fichier

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@Orlysud @Crocodoc84
Have you found the community folder?
Have you tried dragging it to your desktop (move it, NOT copy) and changing the name to Community Backup?

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As I said, community folder is empty (right now).
ATM Iā€™m close to scrap it all and reinstall the whole thing.

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If you have the MS Store or Game Pass version of the game, thereā€™s a way you can repair the game from within Windows. I donā€™t know exactly where it is since I have the Steam version. Perhaps someone else can point you out to where.

Seriously, MSFS is looking for a file it canā€™t find and sh!&ting the bed as a result. You should be able to repair this easily if you have the MS version. Itā€™s unlikely it has to do with the community folder. If it canā€™t find something there, it ignores the mod. This is an issue with the core sim files.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what you could do if itā€™s the Steam version